Friday, May 18, 2007

Love in a Mental Hospital

Jim and Edna were both patients in a mental hospital. One day while
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
immed iately 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 discharged; 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
that you
have a sound mind. The bad news is, Jim, the patient you saved, hung
himself in the bathroom with his bathrobe belt right after you saved
him. I am so sorry, but he's dead."


Edna replied, "He didn't hang himself, I hanged him there to dry. How soon
can I go home?"


HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEK-END AND HANG IN THERE.