August 7, 2009 – Gender Confusion

There we were sitting on the porch at Pappa’s and discussing the “Take Back the Night” demonstration tomorrow and two street cats begin to converse. from the amount of meowing and face touching we were sure it was a courtship discussion but the waitress who saw things from different angles pointed out that the discussion was between males. Eventually we understood that the whole thing was over some food and the white cat gave it, walking away with the greatest of dignity. But it could well have been a sexual conflict – after all, this is the middle of tel aviv.