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, pulled

Jim out and brought him to his room.



When the hospital director became aware of Edna's heroic act, she

immediately ordered that Edna be discharged from the hospital

because she now considered Edna to be mentally stable.



She went to Edna and said, "I have some good news and some bad

news", The good news is that you're being discharged because you

responded so rationally to a crisis! By jumping in the pool to save

the life of another patient, you displayed sound mindedness. The

bad news is that Jim, the patient you saved, hung himself in his

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?"