row row row your boat gently down the / waterfall
A Grumpy Cat post.
It's Friday and someone at work has organised "fun drinks". There is a quiz. There are teams. There is a man with a whistle. You had fun once. It was awful. At the wedding your aunt holds up her phone and says "big smile!" You give her the smile you have. She takes eleven more, in case one of them works. None of them works. The shop assistant asks if you'd like a loyalty card, ten percent off today. No. A receipt by email? No. A bag for 10p? No. "Have a lovely day!" We'll see. The family group chat asks everyone to share the highlight of their week. Six people post sunsets. You post nothing, which was the highlight of your week. **Why it caught on:** Grumpy Cat was Tardar Sauce, an Arizona cat whose dwarfism and underbite gave her a permanent frown, posted to Reddit by her owner's brother in 2012. By all accounts she was gentle, but her face said no to everything, and some days that's the only honest answer.