Lucy's not good with dustbinmen, and although today was just a truck in the distance collecting garden waste from elsewhere, she did her thing of running back indoors and listening from the stairs, before she then hides under the bed!
You'd think, after 5 years of nothing ever happening to her she'd learn to relax but apparently cats are not made that way, they keep hold of negativity. Certainly seems true with our neurotic miss!
The only thing our cat has learned is the hoover doesn't get her. She used to run out the house every time but now she watches somewhere up high.