A Car Hopping Sonic Cat Who Found A Home

AMONG AMERICA'S CULTURAL ATTRIBUTESS is a corporation called "Sonic". If you live in America, and you have a Sonic in your town, you are indeed fortunate. Our firends around the world who visit the United States are urged to visit a Sonic, a model for what a drive in restaurant should be. I started going to Sonic in the late 1960s. The company might not go back much farther than that. To this very day there are car hops who wear roller skates. You assume that delivering orders on skates is optional for the car hop, and that anyone who does is required to sign a medical waver, relieving Sonic of all responsibility for skating mishaps. That's just a guess. Sonic is such a wonderful place that every country in the world should have them, especially you friends in Russia, China, and Malaysia. Over the past few weeks, I noticed a pretty white cat hanging around the door where the carhops come and go. A busy door, and this cat, obviously friendly, obviously wanted attention from the car hops as they passed by. But she didn't get much attention, other than kind words. One car hop explained to me that every time a carhop touches something, he or she has to wash his or her hands up to his or her elbows. So, you just can't pat a cat every time you go in and out. They named the cat "Buttons", maybe because she had a pair of small, black, button-like eyes.I never worried about all the cars; once on Sonic property, people drive real slow, so I knew Buttons was safe. Then, I started noticing that Buttons wasn't around anymore, and I started to get worried, imagining the worst. I asked a car hop, and she gave me the great news that one of the other car hops had taken Buttons home, started her out in the garage, then shifted her inside the house, and it was working out well. There are millions of stray cats in America; they all deserve a good home and a good life, like Buttons is going to have. Always nice to end a story that way, and it makes the Happy Hour half price drinks go down even smoother.