Socrates observed that the unexamined life is not worth living, and so here I sit late at night examining my life, after consuming a large quantity of vodka, and concluding that it is a complete mess.
There was so much excitement in those early days as I graduated from university and threw myself into the wonders of microbiology at a small pharmaceutical company, working all hours for the sheer thrill of it.
That first excitement soon faded as the research became boring and repetitious in nature and I looked around for other opportunities in the field of microbiology to increase my span of knowledge.
Luckily my former university professor invited me for drinks and confessed he had been awarded a $5 million grant and was looking to hire some of his graduate students for gain of function research he was conducting into infectious diseases.
I was absolutely thrilled and spent the next five years at the university’s lab experimenting with introducing new virulent strains of microbes into mice and testing the results on their genetic patterns.
It was late evening and I had put in a fourteen-hour shift, I shook off my gloves and gown, and was halfway out the door when I had a sneaking feeling that I had forgotten to latch the mice cage shut, and so reentered to check the cage door when I felt a nip on my finger.
That mouse got him. I hope his research wasn’t successful.
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Time will tell.
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Great build-up to that final line!
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Just desserts 🙂
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I agree.
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Thanks 😀
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And the rest is viral history…
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Too true.
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The first volley in the uprising (or maybe, first baring of teeth)… cool little story/Six
(Careful it doesn’t mutate into a serial story on you! lol)
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The mice are on the warpath.
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Oh, dear. Excellent story.
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Thanks. Glad you liked it.
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(Ha! And who said they were dumb? lol )
In this case, I’d say the mice had an argument for biting the hand that fed them.
Good one, Len.
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Mice are never themselves when subjected to horrific experiments. I wonder why.
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And then all merry hell broke loose! Good one, Len. Mice are tiny, fast, and able to squeeze through small holes… a nightmare to catch. The scientist seems to have survived his ‘bite’, as far as we know…
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I’m always amazed at the curative effects of a bottle of vodka.
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Can’t argue with that.
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ALWAYS bite the hand that feeds…and injects you!
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I agree, it’s only fair.
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A minor error that’s going to have major consequences methinks!
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Get ready for it. Coming to a city near you.
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