This brings back memories of rat boy. About seven years ago, I use to buy my pet food at a local reptile store. There was a woman at the store most of the time who worked the cash register and on many days, her kids were there in the store with her.
Her oldest boy, perhaps eleven or twelve at the time, would always beg me for a dollar since I had given him one once before. Well on this one day, I had finished picking out a nice fresh live pinkie mouse. These are newborn mouse pups in the pink, no hair or fuzz on them yet, to feed one of my smaller snakes. As I was standing at the register to pay for it, rat boy approaches me and says, hey dude, give me a dollar. I hesitated a moment and said...I'll do you one better. I'll give you a twenty dollar bill but you have to earn it. Grinning ear to ear all excited he asked what do I have to do? I said, see this pinkie mouse? Yeah he said? All you have to do is eat him live, right now.
He looked at his mother with these big can I mom huh, can I, look in his eyes? She looked at him, then at me, shrugged and said do it if you want. I slapped a $20 on the counter and handed him the mouse. Damned if he didn't pick it up, put it in him mouth and start chewing. I checked and sure enough, he swallowed the whole damn thing. I gave him is money, his mother just looked at me and shook her head. He was a handful according to her and she wasn't at all surprised.
A deals a deal, and thus rat boy became legend. I'm sure he will go far in life because he's willing to earn his money!
