COVENTRY MESSAGE BOARD

During a visit to the mental hospital, I asked the Director how do you determine 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,' I said. 'A normal person would use the bucket because it's bigger than the spoon or the teacup.'

'No' said the Director,

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In Coventry you can tell if someone's a mental patient because theyre the only ones who look forward to the hospital food