chance
02-10-2005, 22:13
Jim and Edna
Jim and Edna were both patients in a mental hospital. One day
while Jim and Edna they were walking past the hospital swimming pool, Jim suddenly jumped into the deep end. He sank to the bottom of the pool and stayed there. Edna promptly jumped in to save him.
She swam to the bottom and pulled Jim out. When the Head Nurse Director became aware of Edna's heroic act she immediately ordered her to be discharged from the hospital,
as she now considered her to be mentally stable.
When she went to tell Edna the news she said, "Edna, I have
good news and bad news. The good news is you're being dis-charged; since you were able to rationally respond to a crisis by jumping in and saving the life of another patient, I have concluded that your act displays sound mindedness. The bad news is, Jim, the patient you saved, hung himself right after you saved him with his bathrobe belt in the bathroom. I am so
sorry, but he's dead."
Edna replied "He didn't hang himself, I put him there to dry.
How soon can I go home?"
Jim and Edna were both patients in a mental hospital. One day
while Jim and Edna they were walking past the hospital swimming pool, Jim suddenly jumped into the deep end. He sank to the bottom of the pool and stayed there. Edna promptly jumped in to save him.
She swam to the bottom and pulled Jim out. When the Head Nurse Director became aware of Edna's heroic act she immediately ordered her to be discharged from the hospital,
as she now considered her to be mentally stable.
When she went to tell Edna the news she said, "Edna, I have
good news and bad news. The good news is you're being dis-charged; since you were able to rationally respond to a crisis by jumping in and saving the life of another patient, I have concluded that your act displays sound mindedness. The bad news is, Jim, the patient you saved, hung himself right after you saved him with his bathrobe belt in the bathroom. I am so
sorry, but he's dead."
Edna replied "He didn't hang himself, I put him there to dry.
How soon can I go home?"