Swimming pool problem
Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 1:32 am
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 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
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 sound-mindedness. The
bad news is, Jim - the patient you saved - hung himself with
his bathrobe belt in the bathroom right after you saved him. 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?"
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 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
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 sound-mindedness. The
bad news is, Jim - the patient you saved - hung himself with
his bathrobe belt in the bathroom right after you saved him. 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?"
with Virginia!!