[Grovenet] Bronze Rat

[Dick La Jeunesse]

The following from a friend. ;-)

Dick


A woman walks into a curio shop in San Francisco. Looking around at the 
exotica, she notices a very life-like, life-sized bronze statue of a rat.  
It has no price tag, but is so striking she decides she must have it. She 
takes it to the owner: "How much for 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 his bronze rat, she notices that a few 
real rats have crawled out of alleys and sewers, and begun following her 
down the street. This is a bit disconcerting, so she begins walking a little 
faster.

Within a couple blocks, the group of rats behind her grows to over a 
hundred, and they begin squealing. She starts to trot toward the Bay. She 
takes a nervous look around and sees that the rats now number in  the 
thousands maybe millions- and they are all squealing and coming toward 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 are all 
drowned.

The woman walks back to the curio shop. "Ah ha," says the owner, "I'll bet 
you have come back for the story?"

"No," said the woman, "I came back to see if you have a bronze Democrat."