Rats

I give to you absurd ramblings in eleventy-one words...

I smell a rat.

You do?

No, it’s a colloquialism.

Oh.

I mean someone is up to no good.

Why do you say that?

Strange things are happening.

What strange things?

Things have gone missing.

They have?

Well, you don’t pay attention.

I do.

Not to missing things.

Like what?

Like rats. They go missing.

But they mostly come back.

What about when they don’t?

I’m not sure.

Exactly. That’s why I smell a rat.

If rats go missing, how do you smell them?

The fact that rats go missing is the colloquial rat I smell.

I’m confused.

That’s exactly what they want.

Who?

Those responsible for the missing rats.

Oh.