Surprising Leg

originally posted: 10/15/01

Brought to you by a novelty toy company whose name escapes me.

A Surprising Leg is a rubber foot attached to a short length of pantleg material. You pinch the pants in a door or your car trunk or under the wheel of the Harley parked in the living room so that just the foot and cuff stick out, and it looks like someone is stuck in there.

I took a Leg to Sister-san as a pre-Halloween party gift. While it made the rounds of the doors and cupboards in the house, the funniest moment was seeing her palm-sized kitten Sable-san crouched on the pantleg, gnawing on the rubber toe as if he had slain the whole Surprising Beast himself. Might as well think big!