A traveling salesman didn’t get his opening sentence out of his mouth before the woman answering the door, angry at being bothered by a peddler, tried to slam the door shut. To her surprise and frustration, the door bounced back open. As the salesman began to speak again she slammed it more forcefully, and again it bounced back. She suspected his foot was blocking the door, so she decided to give it a lesson-teaching heave. As she gritted her teeth and wound up for the grand slam, the salesman managed to blurt out, “Please, lady! Move your cat!”