A woman walks into a curio shop in San Francisco. Looking around at the
exotica, she notices a very lifelike, bronze rat figurine. It has no price
tag, but it looks so striking she decides she must have it.
She asks the owner: How much is the bronze rat? Twelve dollars for the
rat, a hundred dollars for the story, says the owner.
The woman gives the shop owner twelve dollars. I'll just take the rat; you
can keep the story.
As she walks down the street carrying the bronze rat, she notices that a few
real rats have crawled out of alleys and sewers, and begun following her
down the street.
Within a couple of blocks, the group of rats behind her grows to over a
hundred, and they begin squealing. She starts to trot towards the Bay. She
takes a nervous look around and sees that the rats now number in the
thousands, maybe in the millions, and they are all squealing and gaining on
her, faster and faster.
Terrified, she runs to the edge of the Bay and throws the bronze rat as far
out into the Bay as she can. Amazingly, the millions of rats all jump into
the Bay after it, and all are drowned.
The woman walks back to the curio shop. Aha, says the owner, l bet you have
come back for the story!
Actually no, says the woman. I came back to see if you have a bronze
Democrat.
exotica, she notices a very lifelike, bronze rat figurine. It has no price
tag, but it looks so striking she decides she must have it.
She asks the owner: How much is the bronze rat? Twelve dollars for the
rat, a hundred dollars for the story, says the owner.
The woman gives the shop owner twelve dollars. I'll just take the rat; you
can keep the story.
As she walks down the street carrying the bronze rat, she notices that a few
real rats have crawled out of alleys and sewers, and begun following her
down the street.
Within a couple of blocks, the group of rats behind her grows to over a
hundred, and they begin squealing. She starts to trot towards the Bay. She
takes a nervous look around and sees that the rats now number in the
thousands, maybe in the millions, and they are all squealing and gaining on
her, faster and faster.
Terrified, she runs to the edge of the Bay and throws the bronze rat as far
out into the Bay as she can. Amazingly, the millions of rats all jump into
the Bay after it, and all are drowned.
The woman walks back to the curio shop. Aha, says the owner, l bet you have
come back for the story!
Actually no, says the woman. I came back to see if you have a bronze
Democrat.
