For all with teenagers (or who have had teenagers), you likely can
confirm that teens and cats have a lot in common... 

* Neither teenagers nor cats turn their heads when you call them by
name.

* No matter what you do for them, it is not enough. Indeed, all humane
efforts are barely adequate to compensate for the privilege of waiting
on them hand and foot.

* You rarely see a cat walking outside of the house with an adult
human being, and it can be safely said that no teenager in his or her
right mind wants to be seen in public with his or her parents.

* Even if you tell jokes as well as Jay Leno, neither your cat nor
your teen will ever crack a smile.

* No cat or teenager shares your taste in music.

* Cats and teenagers can lie on the living-room sofa for hours on end
without moving, barely breathing.

* Cats have nine lives.  Teenagers carry on as if they did.

* Cats and teenagers yawn in exactly the same manner, communicating
that ultimate human ecstasy -- a sense of complete and utter boredom.

* Cats and teenagers do not improve anyone's furniture.