When I don’t get enough sleep, most people know to steer clear of me.

If sleeping were an Olympic event, I’d be headed to Tokyo in 2020. However, with my busy schedule, I rarely have enough time to sleep in past 7 a.m. and I’m lucky if I get a full eight hours a night. Needless to say that when sleep deprivation hits, I get a bit petty. I instantly have a vendetta against whoever or whatever has awoken the beast from his slumber, and hell hath no fury like a sleep-deprived ginger. So because of my own barbaric reactions to sleep deprivation, what this cat owner did speaks to me spiritually.

Nicholas Tecosky loves his sleep just as much as the next person, but his feline friend, Italics, won’t let the poor dude snooze past 4 a.m. After weeks of being awoken from his peaceful slumber, Tecosky was at his wits end, so he decided to give his furry friend a taste of his own medicine.

Oh, you wanted to take a cat nap? Well, too bad!

After being awoken from his nap, the cat sat and pouted while refusing to leave from the man’s bed. Figures.

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