OH RATS–NOSTALGIA FOR GREENWICH VILLAGE.

OH, RATS—NOSTALGIA FOR GREENWICH VILLAGE. News stories about a video of rats cavorting in a Greenwich Village fast food restaurant have achieved popularity on the internet. Thanks to the internet, I was able to determine that the restaurant is at 331 Sixth Avenue and is just a couple doors from a local landmark, the Waverly Theater. In the late sixties I lived on Downing Street, just a five minute walk from the restaurant. One night my cousin Walt went to deal with a mouse that was making noise in the kitchen while I either dozed or pretended to doze. It turned out that it was either a rat or a mouse as big as a football. We found the hole and stuffed it with a shoe and then, on the advice of friends who had lived in New Orleans, stuffed the hole with steel wool. Apparently rats get tired of trying to chew through the steel wool.