Litter Head

My cat has gotten to the point in his life where he doesn't care where he pees. He doesn't have a litterbox, he hasn't had one in about 9 years, he usually goes outside, but he recently peed on my mom's blow dryer, in my mom's closet, and in her shoes (I get the feeling he doesn't like her) so I was asked to get some cat litter, a litter box and a kitty poop scooper. I made the trek to Target and hauled a 20lb box of sand, along with the other cat fecal essentials, up to the register. When I got there I set them on the little conveyer belt and waited as a red polo clad fellow rang them up. Then he said something that will haunt me. Not the statement itself, but because what he said would be considered natural by most people, friendly even. He asked, "do you have a cat?". How do you respond to that. There is a tub of fresh step, a blue cube of plastic, and a pooper scooper... all of these items had stickers and adverts with pictures of various cats on them. Its such an obvious question. A question that would be overlooked and even responded to by most people, but not this cynic. I gave him an eyebrow raise. Not the one eyebrow, that would have been a little too rude. And a lady knows it's a low blow to be rude to someone with such low standards of intelligence. So I gave him a double. Pretty standard reaction. And said 'yes' in a very ambiguous way. The thought had crossed my mind to say, "A cat? Oh! No, no, no! I like defecating in sand, yep, and then I scoop it away. Toilets, ugh! Who needs 'em, right?". But saying that would have just worried the poor chap. Does anyone read this stuff?