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A
Mental Test
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 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 mindness. 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."
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