Beyond a joke

I have spent all of yesterday stretching and contorting myself in an attempt to get the top-book-net-lap off the stupid shelf that just a bit too far out of reach, I mean I can just touch it with my tounge but as it has no suckers like an octopuss I end up trying to lick it off the shelf, stareing and willing it off the shelf ,useless !!Wheres a cat when you need one.........