Monday 24 December 2012

Sharing the gender burden


A married couple went to the
hospital to have their baby
delivered.
Upon their arrival, the doctor
said he had invented a new
machine that would transfer a portion of the
mothers pain to
the baby's father. He asked if
they we're willing to try it out,
they both very much in favor of
it. The doctor set the pain transfer
to 10% for starters, explaining
that even 10% was probably
more pain the father had never
exprienced before. However, as
the labor progressed, the husband felt fine
and asked the
doctor to go ahead and "kick it
up
notch". The doctor then adjusted the
machine to 20% pain transfer.
The husband still feeling fine.
The doctor checked the
husband's blood pressure and
was amazed at how well he was doing at this
point, they decided
to try for 50%.
The husband continued to feel
quite well.
Since the pain transfer was
obviously helping out the wife considerably,
the husband
encouraged the doctor to
transfer ALL the pain to him. The wife
delivered a healthy
baby boy with virtually no pain.
She and her husband were
ecstatic. When they got home,
their gate man (Johnny) had
died from pain

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