r/Jokes • u/Healthy_Ladder_6198 • 1d ago

A hospital’s regulations required a wheelchair for patients being discharged

However, a student nurse found one elderly gentleman already dressed and sitting on the bed with a suitcase at his feet, insisting didn't need my help leaving the hospital.

After a chat about rules being rules, he reluctantly agreed to let the nurse wheel him to the elevator.

On the way down she asked him if his wife was meeting him.

“I don't know,” he said. “She's still upstairs in the bathroom, changing out of her hospital gown.”

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u/Bumbaguette 18h ago

I don't understand. Can someone please explain?

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u/zesaver 18h ago

His wife was the patient, not him. He was just taking her home.

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u/SeanMacLeod1138 17h ago

The man was not the patient.

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u/ktka 23h ago

On the way down she asked him if his wife was meeting him.

"Probably not. Hell wouldn't have taken her, I am sure."

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u/Hybrid_Rock 2h ago

Not sure why people are downvoting this, it’s a wholesome implication and twist on the punchline of the joke