Nursing home test

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Nursing home test

During a visit to my doctor, I asked him, "How do you determine whether or not an older person should be put in a nursing home?"

"Well," he said, "we fill up a bathtub then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the person to empty the bathtub."

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

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