Brass Rat
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Loading ...A man walks into a Chinese shop, looking at all of the curious, exotic things in there. He sees a brass rat sitting on a shelf, and asks the shop keeper how much it is.
The shop keeper says, “Ten dollars for rat, one thousand dollars for story about rat”.
The man replies, “Well, here’s ten bucks for the rat, keep your dumb story”.
“You’ll be back!”, the shop keeper said with a knowing, evil laugh.
The man left the shop with the brass rat, and walked down the street. Looking behind himself, he noticed a real rat following him. A few minutes later, there were 3 rats following him.
He started walking faster and faster, and every time he turned around, he saw more rats - 1000, 1000000, pretty soon there were billions of rats following him.
He ran as fast as he could, and finally ended up at the harbor. He threw the brass rat into the water, and all of the real rats jumped in the water after it and drowned.
The man went back to the Chinese shop.
“Ah, now you’ve come back for the story!”, said the shop keeper.
“No, I wanted to know if you sold any brass lawyers”, said the man.