Wednesday - July 19, 2006

A Little Texas Humor

The Bronze Rat

This guy walks into an exotic antiques shop near the port in Galveston, Texas looking for something unique for his mantle. They have all kinds of unique stuff in this place but one item gets his attention and he can’t take his eye off of it.

The item is a life sized bronzed figure of a rat. It appears perfect in every way and it almost seems to glow with a life of its own.

The guy decides he just has to have the bronzed rat so he walks up to the counter and asks the proprieter how much he wants for it.

“Well”, the proprieter responds, “I’ll sell the rat to you for $12.00. But...if’n y’all bring it back you gotta give me a hundred bucks to take it off ya hands.”

The guy is puzzled by this but he laughs at the shop owner and tells him. “That ain’t gonna happen!!”

“We’ll see ‘bout that in an hour or so”, deadpans the shop owner.

So the guy goes off with his prize.

A couple of minutes later, as he is walking down the street heading back towards the port where he parked his car, the guy notices that he is being followed by a couple of rats squeeking loudly as he proceeds down the street. The guy picks up his pace but block after block more and more rats appear, coming out of the alleys, the dumpsters, the drains, everywhere.

The guy is really starting to get nervous as the rats, now numbering in the thousands, are closing on him. He breaks into a run and it is quite a sight: a guy with his arms wrapped around a large bronzed rat running as fast as his legs can carry him, leading an enormous parade of squeeking and chirping rats in numbers so large as to fill the whole street behind him for several blocks.

Finally the guy reaches a dead-end. He’s at the water’s edge and surrounded by a huge multitude of enraged rats bearing down on him with a madness in their eyes. In desparation the guy turns and with every ounce of his strength, flings the bronzed rat far out into the water. The rats come running up on him…

...and run on past into the water, oblivious to the guy standing in their midst. The rats follow their bronzed idol into the deep, drowning to the last rodent.

A few minutes later the guy walks back into the shop where he purchased the bronzed rat. The owner looks up and sees his former customer walking disheveled back into his shop. “So...y’all’ve come back to return your purchase! Remember what I told ya it would cost?”, the owner says smiling. 

“No. No...”, says the guy. “That’s not why I’m here”

“I’d like to talk to you about that little bronzed Mexican you have over there in the corner...”

_{(-- thanks to Babylonandon fer this tickler --)}

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/19/2006 at 01:47 PM   
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