lxexpress
11-11-2005, 03:35 PM
>Mental Ward
>
>Jim and Mary 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 & stayed
there.
>
>Mary promptly jumped in to save him. She swam to the bottom and pulled
Jim
>out.
>
>When the medical director became aware of Mary's heroic act he
immediately
>ordered her to be discharged from the hospital, as he now considered
her to
>be mentally stable.
>
>When he went to tell Mary the news he said, "Mary, I have good news &
bad
>news. The good news is you're being discharged because since you were
able
>to jump in and save the life of another patient, I think you've
regained
>your senses. The bad news is, Jim, the patient you saved, hung himself
with
>his bathrobe belt in the bathroom. I am so sorry, but he's dead."
>
>Mary replied "He didn't hang himself; I put him there to dry."
>
>
>Jim and Mary 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 & stayed
there.
>
>Mary promptly jumped in to save him. She swam to the bottom and pulled
Jim
>out.
>
>When the medical director became aware of Mary's heroic act he
immediately
>ordered her to be discharged from the hospital, as he now considered
her to
>be mentally stable.
>
>When he went to tell Mary the news he said, "Mary, I have good news &
bad
>news. The good news is you're being discharged because since you were
able
>to jump in and save the life of another patient, I think you've
regained
>your senses. The bad news is, Jim, the patient you saved, hung himself
with
>his bathrobe belt in the bathroom. I am so sorry, but he's dead."
>
>Mary replied "He didn't hang himself; I put him there to dry."
>