Rats

A Tourist walked into a Chinese curio shop in San Francisco.

While looking around at the exotic merchandise, he noticed

a very lifelike, life-sized, bronze statue of a rat. It had no price

tag, but was so incredibly striking the tourist decided he must

have it. He took it to the old shop owner and asked,

"How much for the bronze rat ?"

"Ahhh, you have chosen wisely! It is $12 for the rat and $100

for the story," said the wise old China man.

The tourist quickly pulled out twelve dollars. "I'll just take

the rat, you can keep the story".

As he walked down the street carrying his bronze rat, the

tourist noticed that a few real rats had crawled out of the

alleys and sewers and had begun following him down the

street. This was a bit disconcerting so he began walking

faster.

A couple blocks later he looked behind him and saw to his

horror the herd of rats behind him had grown to hundreds,

and they began squealing.



Sweating now, the tourist began to trot toward San Francisco Bay.

Again, after a couple blocks, he looked around only to discover that

the rats now numbered in the MILLIONS, and were squealing and

coming toward him Faster and faster.

Terrified, he ran to the edge of the Bay and threw the bronze rat as

far as he could into the Bay.

Amazingly, the millions of rats all jumped into the Bay after the

bronze rat and were all drowned. The man walked back to the

curio shop in Chinatown .

"Ahhh," said the owner, "You come back for story ?"

"No sir," said the man, "I came back to see if you have a bronze

Democrat, a bronze Lawyer, a bronze Internet Troll, a bronze ..." 

a bronze throne.. 

... as my old friend on KU would say .... pffttt. 

I hear an echo!! 

a bronze Monza and a bronze Oma too. 

Not going near the bronzing solution.