Years ago, at the advent of DIYism, I bought a glue gun. I used it for craft projects and various small repairs (actually, more of my life was held together by hot glue than I care to admit).

I would set up shop at the kitchen table and go berserk, amazed by the versatility of the stuff. Also amazing was just how hot the glue really was.

It got to the point where I'd just put out the Bacitracin and Band-Aids when I sat down to use it.

My dear, sweet cat had no idea I was so inept and clumsy with scalding fixatives. She would sit nearby, watching, occasionally batting at the cooled, congealed blobs or wisps left over.

One day it took a nasty turn.

Sometimes, the raw glue has a little air bubble in it and there's a pop and a mini-explosion. Sometimes, the pop noise startles the user and her pet at the same time. And what sometimes happens is, in a frenetic moment worthy of the Marx Brothers, the gun is dropped (thrown), the glue goes everywhere, leaving pet and owner with glue all over them, stuck to each other in a most unpleasant, if temporary, way. Sometimes, at that precise moment, the phone will ring, and the scalded, pet-stuck user will reflexively grab for it, forgetting she is covered in boiling adhesives.

And sometimes, that's when the front door opens and the scene is revealed in all its glory: a grown woman stuck to her cat and her telephone, emitting the loudest shrieks of protest imaginable.

That's when the glue gun was taken away from me. For some time.

Author: Jiande Tongyu Electrical Appliance Tool Co.,Ltd.
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