During a visit to my doctor, I asked him, “How do you determine whether\u00a0 or not an older person should be put in an old age home?”<\/p>\n

“Well,” he said, “we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the person and tell them to empty the bathtub.”<\/p>\n

“Oh, I understand,” I said. “A normal person would use the bucket\u00a0 because it is bigger than the spoon or the teacup.”<\/p>\n

“No” he said.<\/p>\n

“A normal person would pull the plug. Do you want a bed\u00a0 near the window?”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1297","text-joke","type-text-joke","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatcanadianjokebook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/text-joke\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatcanadianjokebook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/text-joke"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatcanadianjokebook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/text-joke"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatcanadianjokebook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}