Dead Cat on a Shovel

I really wanted to tell you about the time we had a dead cat on a shovel. It died. We carried it around on a shovel, and buried it. We thought we were doing a really nice thing, by burying it down the street and everything. That was great, until they told us to go get it, and return it, so they could dispose of it properly.
(they = parents)
There is some story there, but I forgot what it is. Other than being traumatized by my friend's cat getting hit by a car, and carrying the deceased around on a really huge heavy shovel like, a half a mile, and it was so heavy, and yeah, that's so normal.

The shovel must have been 20 pounds or more, and when you're like, 12 it can be heavy.

Especially with dead cat, at rigor on it. Pure 'dead weight' so to speak.

And perhaps even in the universe somewhere the residual of two little girls carrying a dead cat on a shovel is there.
I'm not sure what that even means but, it's gotta mean something right?
I think it means we were friends, -and so even friends enough that I would help her carry her dead cat and give it a funeral.