Bob and Edna

[stardust]

>> Bob and Edna were both patients in a mental hospital. One day while
>> they were walking past the hospital swimming pool, Bob 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 Bob out. 

>> When the Director of Nursing 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 soundness of mind.
>> The bad news is that Bob, the patient you saved, hanged himself in
>> his bathroom with the belt to his robe 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?"

[amy]

[kim]

I would have hung him up to dry too.