I was mowing the lawn on Monday night. The cat was reclined on the grass under a maple tree watching me. I kept getting close and closer to the cat. He just sat there unfazed by the lawn mower. He finally moved when I got about two feet away.
On Sunday, I was vacuuming the rug in the family room. The cat wandered in and sat on the rug watching me. The noisy vacuum didn’t bother him. When I got about a foot from his tail he finally walked slowly out of the room.
Last night, I was carrying the ironing board from the laundry room into the family room. The cat was reclined on the chaise in the family room. When he saw the ironing board, he jumped up and ran out of the room, down the basement stairs and hid behind the water heater. How strange is that? He’s not bothered by the lawn mower or the vacuum, but the ironing board scares him. This cat has no end to his strange ways.
The Corporate Slave 
silly ferd. my cats run at the sound of thunder or the vacuum or the lawn mower or fireworks. and they are inside cats! I don’t own an ironing board or an iron.