Jim and Edna!

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, for 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 a clearly
sound mind.

But, 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 put him there to dry."

"How soon can I go home?"