So there we were, on the Tuileries, Vicki, Penelope, and me, Bastille Night,
so to speak, awaiting the fireworks extravaganza from the Tour Eiffel and
the Trocadero; as the sun sets, the resident rat population comes out,
scrounging for the morsels that a quarter million humans have dropped,
walking by during the day on one of the world's busier concourses; and
Penelope exclaims, "It's Ratatouille! It's Ratatouille! It really is! He is real!
He is!" A similar response had occurred at Disneyland Paris when she saw
an animatronic Buzz Light-Year; although she later conceded that all the rest
of the ride was only "pretend"; these rats were not "pretend," and the city
had a major PR problem in the following days |
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