Rules are Rules

Hospital regulations require a wheel chair for patients being discharged.

However, while working as a student nurse, I found one elderly gentleman already dressed

and sitting on the bed with a suitcase at his feet, who insisted he didn’t need my help to

leave the hospital. After a chat about Rules are Rules,

he reluctantly let me wheel him to the elevator.

On the way down I asked him 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.”