The Bathtub Test

[bfez1]

The Bathtub Test

It doesn't hurt to take a hard look at yourself from time to time, and this should help get you started. During a visit to the mental asylum, a visitor asked the Director what the criterion was which defined whether or not a patient should be institutionalized.

"Well," said the Director, "we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the patient and ask him or her to empty the bathtub."

"Oh, I understand," said the visitor. "A normal person would use the bucket because it's bigger than the spoon or the teacup."

"No." said the Director, "A normal person would pull the plug. Do you want a bed near the window?"


Did you pass, or would you like the bed near mine?

[Lindaloo]

I said the bucket too. LOL!! I will take a bed near the window please.

[bfez1]

I said the bucket too. LOL!! I will take a bed near the window please.

Great, right next to me!

[WindRunner]

Luckily I've seen that before, but I just might have said bucket the first time I read it . . .

[sunny]

I said the bucket too. LOL!! I will take a bed near the window please.

Great, right next to me!

Count me in with you two

[Miss Mary]

Oh that is too funny - LOL!!!! I was thinking using the bucket too.

Now watch j show up and claim he was going to pull the plug all along!

[Pburgh]

I would take the teaspoon and fill the teacup and then use the filled teacup to fill the bucket. All the while I would have bubbles in the bath, candles burning and some beautiful Rachmanoff playing in the background!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ROTFLMAO
Wonderful stress reliever!!!!

I'll take the bed in the padded room please!!!!

[Lindaloo]

OKay Miss Mary, fess up... which bed do you want?

[kevin]

I thought that since it wasn't my bathtub I'd just jump in it first to empty the water the fastest.

[Miss Mary]

Linda - you should know ME well by now - the bed near the bathroom!!! LOL

[Pburgh]

Does the padded cell have a bathroom in it?? I forgot to say I'd be drinking some chardonnay while bathing so ------ I'll need a bathroom in my cell.

kevin, I thought of that too!!lol

[Miss Mary]

Good point Karan - hey, if there aren't any individual bathrooms in mental asylums (the very word gives me the willies!), then I think I'd better never crack up!!!! LOL

Hey - does anyone else have One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, stuck in their head now? Nurse Ratchet, Nurse Ratchet - ewww, she was a nasty movie character.....lol.

[dizzyfish]

I thought bucket too!

We may need a whole wing for all of us. I'll take a window too please!

[Swimdude]

Well... Let's say I live in the middle ages, and there's no plumbing for the bathtub! Then I would have to use the bucket!

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Ok, I guess I'll take the 3rd bed on the left from dizzyfish.

[swimaster20]

Another bucket person here!
Put me in the bed next to the unbreakable vending machines.

[Lindaloo]

I thought that since it wasn't my bathtub I'd just jump in it first to empty the water the fastest.

Okay, you need a padded cell with no bed at all.

[O Town]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I did the same darn thing. I will take any bed left if there is any still available.

[george_r_1961]

The first thing I thought of was pulling the plug. Guess that makes me normal

[Brent]

The first time I saw this I said bucket too, but I didn't fall for it this time.

[GalvestonDuck]

I thought about pulling the plug. But then I thought, would that be cheating since they gave me tools with which to empty the tub and, thus, I'm expected to use one?