In Which Margaret Gets Stuck In A Very Tight Place

We've got our living room arranged so that the furniture often functions as a sort of barricade, making it difficult for Margaret to get at things like the fireplace and the nest of cords that powers laptops, lamps, and whatnot (whatnots are notorious for needing lots of power).*judiciously, we can make a pretty secure border.  This mostly works, and by using ottomans (ottomen?, we can mostly shore up the gaps.

Margaret, however, is a squirmy, wormy little person who insinuates herself into holes that one would have imagined to be too small for her.

And then gets stuckish.

She checked out the obvious escape route -- up --

but decided after testing the strength of the screen that it wasn't a viable option.

 So she tried to go forward.

And then realized that in her squirmings she'd moved the chair, and so went out under it.

Taking her cups with her, thank you.

*Those of you that remember the episode in By The Shores of Silver Lake in which Ma and Mrs. Boast construct a whatnot may be confused by this assertion, but I remind you that sometimes words can mean more than one thing, and in the specific case of whatnot can mean almost anything.