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 into save him. She swam to the bottom and pulled
Jim out.
When their medical director became aware of Edna'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 Edna the news he 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. 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."
