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JIM AND MARY
Jim and Mary 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.
Mary promptly jumped in to save him. She swam to the bottom and pulled
Jim out. When the Head Nurse Director became aware of Mary'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 Mary the news, she said, "Mary, 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 that 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's
dead."
Mary replied, "He didn't hang himself, I put him there to dry."
"How soon can I go home?"
Jim and Mary 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.
Mary promptly jumped in to save him. She swam to the bottom and pulled
Jim out. When the Head Nurse Director became aware of Mary'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 Mary the news, she said, "Mary, 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 that 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's
dead."
Mary replied, "He didn't hang himself, I put him there to dry."
"How soon can I go home?"


