Not Kitten Around With Trash-Day

(We have just gotten ourselves a kitten after losing my cat. When my previous cat was a kitten, she would hop into the trashcan, so as a joke, my mom puts the new kitten into the trashcan. It’s the night before trash-day, and my brother takes out the trash.)

Mom: “[Brother]! You forgot the trashcan in my room!”

Brother: “No, I didn’t.”

Me: “Yes, you did. Come get it.”

Brother: *comes over and steps on the pedal to open the trashcan, finding the kitten*

Mom: “What do you say to that?”

Brother: *lifts kitten out of the trash* “One man’s trash is another man’s— ow ow, claws!”