September 20, 2014

We were doing some kind of experiment while a white lab rat was running around the room. The people around me seemed intent on drowning the rat. We watched it run around and climb on the furniture, stopping every so often to regain its bearings. After a while, the rat climbed into a paint bucket full of water in the sink on its own accord. People were delighted as it struggled to get back out. It only took a few seconds before the rat got out when a girl walked by, picked up the rat, and set it into another bucket full of water. Each successive time the small creature crawled out, she got more and more aggressive with her handling of the rat. By the end, she was throwing the critter back into the water every time it poked its head from the top.