What is a mouse?

Couple of weeks back a new office boy has joined our office. He has come from Chennai and does not know Hindi. We have 16 people in our office right now (including two office boys) and 13 of us know Hindi, 14 of us know English. Now if we need to recruit a new office boy, what would be the requirements:

• Should be ready to do office work
• Should be ready to do misc. stuff (may or may not be part of his job profile)
• Should have a good integrity so that things are safe in the office
  
• Should be able to understand what needs to be done

But the only language our new office boy knows is Tamil which 12 people in the office do not know. I am equally amazed how he got through as some others in my office are. Maybe because he knows the language of the master. Anyways, I got a feeling of how important sign language is when early today morning a mouse came to say hello to me in the office. It scared the wits out of me. I had to explain that we have a new unwanted guest to our new office boy who was the only person around. I could not because he does not know Hindi / English and I do not know Tamil. I told him we had a mouse. He told me it is in the drawer. A little more brain tuning and I could make out he was talking about the COMPUTER MOUSE and not the MOUSE MOUSE. I tried to show him by hands that I am talking about A MOUSE WHICH WALKS. But I could not get through. I talked to him about a lion and a tiger and then suddenly RAT was the WORD OF THE DAY.