
The Mental Hospital Test π
I was touring a mental hospital one afternoon when I asked the director,
βHow do you decide whether a patient should actually be admitted?β
βOh, thatβs easy,β he replied.
βWe give them a very simple test.β
He led me into a bathroom and pointed at a bathtub filled to the brim with water.
Beside it sat a bucket, a teacup, and a teaspoon.
βWe ask the patient to empty the tub.β
I smiled confidently.
βWell, obviously a sane person would use the bucket. Itβs bigger than the cup or the spoon.β
The director looked at me for a long moment.
Then he said softly,
βNoβ¦ a sane person would pull the plug.β
He paused.
βWould you prefer a room with a window?β
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A blonde buys two horses and canβt tell them apart.
So she asks the farmer next door what she should do.
He says to cut one of their tails off.
So she does.
But then the other horseβs tail gets caught in a bush and rips off.
So she canβt tell them apart again.
She asks the farmer for advice a second time.
He tells her to cut one of the horseβs ears.
So she does.
But then the other horse gets its ear ripped in a barbed wire fence.
She is still confused.
She asks the farmer what to do.
He tells her to measure them.
She comes back and says, βThe white horse is 2 inches taller than the black horse!β
















