Three Macho Mice – the Real Story

Three little macho mice

Sit drinking in a bar,

Boasting about boldness

And who’s the bravest by far.

The first mouse named Nicky

Has a double whiskey

And then begins to brag:

“When I see a mousetrap

With a lovely cheese scrap

Does it send a red flag?

No! I lie down on my back

And very gently with ease,

Set it off with both my feet

And safely grab the cheese.

So I am safe and free,

The cheese belongs to me.

Now you must surely see

I’m brave – do you agree?”

The other two brave mice

Order another round,

Give each other eye-looks

But do not make a sound.

Then the second mouse, Dicky,

Swallows his double whiskey,

“That’s quite a feat, my friend.

Each day I find rat poison

From boxes that are broken

And line them up end to end.

Then I grind the rat poison,

Place it in my coffee cup,

It gives me a buzz all day

As soon as I drink it up.

So you must surely see

That the bravest is me!”

The third mouse named Mickey,

Drains his glass of whiskey

And turns to the other two.

"I certainly agree,

You're both as brave as can be

And full of derring-do.

If I tried to grab cheese

From a mousetrap of steel

Like Nicky does with ease

It would be my last meal.

If I drank rat poison

Placed in my coffee cup;

Unlike Dicky who thrives,

Under ground, I’d end up

So I salute you two brave mice.

Bravo! Bravo! I’ll say it twice

Now I've got a hot date,

So I will grab my hat.

I don't want to be late

So I can’t stay to chat.

Are you wondering who

I am hurrying to?

I thought you both knew …

It's my girlfriend . . . the cat!”

I always wondered how the ‘Three Blind Mice’ in the nursery tale could escape the farmer’s wife if they were really blind!

Now I have figured it out. It was a reporter’s typo. Those three mice were not really blind. They were blond!

Fun Fact

The theme of the second movement of the beautiful Piano Concerto No. 4 by Sergei Rachmaninoff (1926) has been criticized as resembling the tune, ‘Three Blind Mice.’

© Copyright BJ Rakow, Ph.D. 2015. All rights reserved. Author, "Much of What You Know about Job Search Just Ain't So."