A woman was in town on a shopping trip
She began her day finding the most perfect shoes in the first shop and a
beautiful dress on sale in the second. In the third everything had just
been reduced to a fiver when her mobile phone rang. It was a female doctor
notifying her that her husband had just been in a terrible accident and was
in critical condition and in Intensive Care.
The woman told the doctor to inform her husband where she was and that
she'd be there as soon as possible.
As she hung up she realized she was leaving what was shaping up to be her
best day ever of retail therapy. She decided to get in a couple more shops
before heading to the hospital.
She ended up shopping the rest of the morning, finishing her trip with a
cup of coffee and a beautiful freebie cake from the last shop. She was jubilant. Then she remembered her husband.
Feeling guilty, she dashed to the hospital. She saw the doctor in the
corridor and asked about her husband's condition.
The lady doctor glared at her and said, "You went ahead and finished your shopping trip didn't you! I hope you're proud of yourself! While you were
out for the past four hours enjoying yourself in town, your husband has
been languishing in the ICU." She thought about this. "It's just as well
you went ahead and finished, because it will more than likely be the last
shopping trip you ever take. For the rest of his life your husband will
require round-the-clock care. And you'll have to be his carer!'
The woman was feeling so bad now that she broke down and sobbed.
The doctor just chuckled and said, 'I'm only pulling your leg. He's dead.
So, what did you buy?'
She began her day finding the most perfect shoes in the first shop and a
beautiful dress on sale in the second. In the third everything had just
been reduced to a fiver when her mobile phone rang. It was a female doctor
notifying her that her husband had just been in a terrible accident and was
in critical condition and in Intensive Care.
The woman told the doctor to inform her husband where she was and that
she'd be there as soon as possible.
As she hung up she realized she was leaving what was shaping up to be her
best day ever of retail therapy. She decided to get in a couple more shops
before heading to the hospital.
She ended up shopping the rest of the morning, finishing her trip with a
cup of coffee and a beautiful freebie cake from the last shop. She was jubilant. Then she remembered her husband.
Feeling guilty, she dashed to the hospital. She saw the doctor in the
corridor and asked about her husband's condition.
The lady doctor glared at her and said, "You went ahead and finished your shopping trip didn't you! I hope you're proud of yourself! While you were
out for the past four hours enjoying yourself in town, your husband has
been languishing in the ICU." She thought about this. "It's just as well
you went ahead and finished, because it will more than likely be the last
shopping trip you ever take. For the rest of his life your husband will
require round-the-clock care. And you'll have to be his carer!'
The woman was feeling so bad now that she broke down and sobbed.
The doctor just chuckled and said, 'I'm only pulling your leg. He's dead.
So, what did you buy?'