Wheelchair

Hospital regulations require a wheelchair for patients who
are being discharged. However, while my friend was working
as a student nurse, she found one elderly gentleman - already
dressed and sitting on the bed with a suitcase at his feet -
who insisted he didn't need her help to leave the hospital.
After a chat about rules being rules, he reluctantly let her
wheel him to the elevator. On the way down, she asked 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."