Originally Posted 1/3/08
Got this from my daughter – I wonder if she ‘s trying to tell me summut??
Just because someone doesn’t love you the way you want them to, doesn’t mean they don ‘t love you with all they have. Ralph and Edna were patients in a mental hospital. One day, while they were walking past the hospital swimming pool, Ralph suddenly jumped into the deep end. He immediately sank to the bottom of the pool and stayed there. Edna promptly jumped in to save him. She swam to the bottom and pulled him out.
When the hospital administrator 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 the administrator 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 situation by jumping in the pool and saving the life of the person you love. I have concluded that your act displays sound mindedness. The bad news is, Ralph hung himself in the bathroom with his bathrobe belt right after you saved him. I am so sorry, but he’s dead.”
Edna replied, “Ralph didn’t hang himself, I put him there to dry. How soon can I go home?”