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Jim and Edna

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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 Nursing Director became aware of Edna's heroic act, she
immediately ordered Edna to be discharged from the hospital, as she now
considered Edna to be mentally stable. When she went to tell Edna the news
she said, "Edna, I have good new 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 your act
displays you have a sound mind.

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 is
dead."

Edna replied, "He didn't hang himself, I put him there to dry. How soon can
I go home?"




"Remember to always keep a song in your heart, it drowns out the voices in
your head."

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