I.T.K


During a visit to an asylum a visitor asks the Director
"What is the criteria which defines a patient to be institutionalised?"
"Well" said the Director in his gruff voice, "We fill up a bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the patient and ask him/her to empty the bathtub"

O.k here is your test

1. Would you use the teaspoon?
2. Would you use the teacup?
3. Would you use the bucket?

"Oh, I understand" said the visitor, smiling. "A normal person would use the bucket because its bigger than the spoon and the teacup."
"No" said the Director, " a normal person would pull the plug at the bottom of the bathtub" Then with a smirk, he asks the visitor "Do you want a room with or without a view?"

When i read this joke, i laughed till i almost dropped. Yup, I did. And for those of you who didn't laugh, don't worry u'd understand by next Monday! Hehehe!

However, the whole thing drove a point home to me:
We are always sure of things we don't have the faintest ideas of. And i wonder why? Could it be because we live in a world that make us feel like under-achievers if we cannot give an answer to every question or a witty comment to every remark? Is that why we sometimes go out of our way to seem 300 percent knowledgeable about things we do not know?