Wipe them away

Reach down to pick up the purring cat, pick it up and place it on the knees. The animal is mistrustful at first, and then settles.
The shower has been taken, the alarm silenced. Today is the day to go to the dentist, there was no need to get up that early.
The cat settles a bit more, she is not used to spending time on the knees of sitting humans. But she seems quite satisfied and does not really want to go away. Yet. She tries to find a more comfortable position. The cat is an unusual cat, usual cats just like to curl up in a situation like that, a comfortable warm lap to sit on and a hand to stroke the feline head.
Read the news, the news supplied by cynical German businessmen. The news is an email, sent by the Handelsblatt. A business managers view of the world.
Read from the screen and stroke the head and back of the cat. The wife is sleeping. The son is sleeping.
Then there is the raucous sound of the son's alarm clock.

Hear the son get up.
The cat jumps to the floor.
The early morning peace is interrupted
Get up, go to the coffee maker, see that it has already been turned on.
The son wants to make coffee.
He is no longer a small boy.
Fill the sieve, make coffee.
Then the son comes in, irritated to see his father.
He inguires as to the time.
Six.
Five past six.
All right.
He takes the lid off the drip tray on the coffee maker.
He sees that the container below has been filled with drips.
He rumples his nose, and goes.

So his father takes out the brimful tray and empties the contents down the drain of the sink.
And a brush, to scrub the residues away.
And then replace the clean tray, then take the plastic grating and clean that too.
There is the smell of old coffee now, It must have been some time since that was cleaned.

Clean the sieve, leave the coffee maker for the son.
Go back to reading the news.
And wipe the cat hairs that are all over the legs of the trousers.
Wipe them away.