Unintentionally, A Grumpy Nativity-Scene Cat Spreads Holiday Cheer

As he settled in to watch the world go by recently, this corpulent grayish-orange kitty clearly had no intention of cheering anyone up. But the joke’s on him!

That is exactly what he did.

Photographer Brooke Goldman wasn’t where she intended to be on a chilly fall sidewalk in New York City early last Sunday. Goldman made the mistake of volunteering to go with her lover to catch his train that morning because he had travel arrangements. She actually preferred to stay in bed. Nonetheless, she went ahead and did it.

Goldman told The Dodo, “I was very out of it.” “I was trying to go home as quickly as possible so I could go back to sleep, and I wasn’t prepared at all for the day.”

But everything changed in a single sluggish step. Goldman’s eyes rested on this, as though struck by a divine vision: