“Sit down, children. Your grandpa is going to tell you a story,â€? the old man said to his grandchildren. “Now, when I was about your age,â€? he began, pointing to the oldest of them, â€? I had a friend named Bill. Everywhere Bill went he carried a brown bag with him. Bill never told anybody what was in the bag; he always just said it was a secret. Every day, my friends and I got increasingly curious about the bag. We knew whatever was in there must have been alive because it tried to move around and made strange noises. So one day, we planned to trick Bill. We slipped a little too much tabasco sauce into his jambalaya, and, before you knew it, he was screaming that his tongue was on fire! We openned the bag to see what was inside, and a bobcat jumped out and attacked Joe! When Bill saw that we let his bobcat out, he got so angry that he didn’t know what to do! And that’s how we invented the saying you let the cat out of the bag,â€? he said, “Now, did I ever tell you about the time we aired Bill’s dirty laundry?â€?