Some Things A Rat Just Won't Do
A tourist walks into a curio shop in San Francisco.
Looking around at the exotica, he notices a very lifelike life-sized
bronze statue of a rat. It has no price tag, but is so striking
he decides he must have it. He takes it to the owner: "How
much for the bronze rat?"
"$12 for the rat, $100 for the story," says the owner.
The tourist gives the man $12. "I'll just take the rat,
you can keep the story."
As he walks down the street carrying his bronze rat, he notices
that a few real rats have crawled out of the alleys and sewers
and begun following him down the street. This is disconcerting,
and he begins walking faster.
But within a couple of blocks, the herd of rats behind him
has grown to hundreds, and they begin squealing. He begins to
trot toward the Bay, looking around to see that the rats now
number in the MILLIONS, and are squealing and coming toward
him faster and faster.
Concerned, even scared, he runs to the edge of the Bay, and
throws the bronze rat as far out into the water as he can. Amazingly,
the millions of rats all jump into the Bay after it, and are
all drowned.
The man walks back to the curio shop.
"Ah ha," says the owner, "you have come back
for the story?"
"No," says the man, "I came back to see if you
have a bronze Republican."
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