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So my husband and I were very excited
about our upcoming trip to Italy
but we had a big issue, which is our cat Spencer.
(audience laughing)
He's a two year old male tabby cat.
We adopted him
from a local animal shelter when he was a kitten.
And we love him, he's like our child.
So we are like, what we going to do with Spencer?
We just relocated from Japan to New York.
We don't have any family, friends here yet.
And the only person we could think of
was 15 year old American boy
who's living the same apartment building.
We see him here and there doing some errands
for the residents to make small money.
But he's a little bit cocky, typical teenage boy,
looks like only thinking about girls and football.
And his hair is loose, his clothes is loose,
his attitude is loose.
And we are like, oh, forget about it.
We cannot leave over Spencer to the kid.
We have to find a decent and responsible adult.
And one person crossed my mind, she's Japanese like me.
I met her through a library program and I remember
she mentioned she loves cat, and she used to be a vet
and she always looking for a volunteer opportunity
at animal shelter to take care of the cats.
So one day I walked up to her at the library saying,
it was really awkward moment.
But look, I know this is a huge favor.
And definitely you can say no, but would you be interested
in taking care of Spencer while I'm away?
She said immediately, oh, I'd love to.
This is going to be great.
I was like, what a generous person.
And so I went to an apartment
in Upper West to drop off Spencer.
And when I enter the apartment, the four walls
were pictures and paintings of cats all over.
And on the shelves, a quite variety of funny cat figures.
It was a little bit too much,
but clearly she loves cats, which is good.
And so I explained about food,
which is only dry food, two times a day.
And the amount is one cup per meal, no snack.
And she said, oh, that's quite simple and easy, no problem.
And I thanked her and flew to Italy with my husband.
Day one, I got text message from her
saying, Spencer is doing great.
He ate food and he did both things
in his toilet and everything's great, no worry.
Please enjoy your vacation.
She even attached a picture of Spencer,
he's lying on the couch.
And he looked very comfortable.
And day two, I got another text.
I was like, wow,
is she sending me a daily report of Spencer?
I didn't even ask her,
but I know this is so typical Japanese.
We are very detailed and hospitable people.
I'm very happy that I asked her and I opened a text.
She said, Spencer is a little bit strange.
He didn't eat food.
He's not coming out from under the bed.
He's not moving.
I didn't know what's going on.
So I was trying to figure out,
this has never happened before
but do you have any idea what the cause might be?
And she replied, actually, he ate a tiny part of my socks.
So to help digestion, I give him Chia seed oil.
What is Chia seed oil?
And she continued father, by the way,
the food man that you give Spencer is too little.
So I gave him wet food that I had at home.
I was like, why does she do that?
We agreed with the instructions.
So I said, in a way, please don't give him anything
but what he usually eats.
And she responded back immediately, I know what cats needs.
I used to be a vet.
I have more experience than you.
What is wrong with her?
And I exchanged many texts
and her tone was really escalating every text.
And she was really attacking me.
But it's like hostage negotiation.
You still have to maintain certain level
of cooperation, willingness.
(audience clapping)
But one point, it went out of control.
And I was really, really concerned about Spencer's safety.
But I didn't know what to do.
I'm in Italy, Spencer is in danger.
My heart was pumping fast, I was crying.
I was so desperate that I had to reach out
to the 15 year old American boy.
And I explained the long story and said, sorry,
I know this is a lot to ask,
but is there any chance that you could retrieve Spencer?
And I knew he still was at school.
So I waited and an hour later my phone beeped.
It was from him.
I opened the text very nervously.
He said, sure, just give me her dress.
I said what, really?
I said, you have no idea how much it means to me.
You are my hero.
Okay, so her address is this and this.
He texted me back with Emoji of guy saluting.
Got it, and he did it, he did.
He went up to Upper West and retrieved Spencer
from the lady and brought him back
to Brooklyn and stayed with him until I came back home.
So the guy who I thought
just want to be Justin Bieber saved the day.
And he's my hero to this day.