Mary wondered if these Vials were the real deal. Surely not! All her life she heard fairy tales and watched movies about magic, but never in real life had she seen any evidence in the way of mystical things being true. Aliens, maybe, but magic just didn't make any sense to her. She picked up one of the Vials and saw a picture of a small rat on its label.
"Okay, I'm going to humor you," she said to the Vial. "If you turn me into a cute little rat, then I'll have no choice but to believe." She was about to tip the entire Vial into her mouth, but paused. She may not believe in magic, but she believed in poison. But, who would want to poison her, much less go through this entire production to do so? At worst, there was someone with a camera hiding in the bushes outside her window to see if she would fall for this crazy idea of turning into an animal. "I hope you're recording me closely, fella, because I'm falling for it." With that, she held up the Vial to a nearby window in a toasting fashion, then sipped a tiny amount of it. It tasted like filthy water.
"Blech!" Mary capped the Vial immediately and put it back into the box. "Okay, you got me. Hope you make millions off that tape when you send it into The World's Stupidest People." Feeling very frustrated at her gullibility, Mary went into the kitchen to make breakfast. The most irritating part about this whole thing was that a small part of her, deep down, actually wished that Vial would have worked.