The unimpressed bodega cat, seated on a stack of newspapers, staring past you

Bodega Cat: Get Your Verdict

The bodega cat has been watching. Get your verdict.


Somewhere on a stack of newspapers, a cat has been keeping a file on you. Swipe through the things it saw you buy — the $6 oat milk, the 2am lighter, the flowers for no one — and plead guilty or deny each. It will read your basket like a tarot spread and hand down one ruling. It will not look at you while it does this.

Get your verdict
— Rulings already on file —
Certified 2am Menace

“Energy where sleep should be, a lighter where a plan should be.”


Filed under: unserious.
The Cat Approves (rare)

“The cat looked at you. Once. On purpose. Then looked away.”


Filed under: rare approval.
The Flowers-For-No-Reason Softie

“The cat came to condemn and found nothing it could name.”


The cat squints, undecided.