Jim and Mary were both patients in a Mental Hospital. One day while they
were walking past the hospital swimming pool, Mary suddenly jumped into
the deep end. She sunk to the bottom and stayed there. Jim promptly
jumped in to save her. He swam to the bottom and pulled Mary out. When
the medical director became aware of Jim’s heroic act he immediately
ordered him to be discharged from the hospital, as he now considered him
to be mentally stable.
When he went to tell Jim the news he said, “Jim, I have good news and
bad news. The good news is you’re being discharged because since you
were able to jump in and save the life of another patient, I think
you’ve regained your senses. The bad news is, Mary, the patient you
saved, hung herself with her dressing gown belt in the bathroom. I am so
sorry, but she’s dead.”
Jim replied, “She didn’t hang herself. I put her there to dry.”