{"id":9603,"date":"2026-02-19T20:52:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=9603"},"modified":"2026-02-19T20:52:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:52:33","slug":"an-elderly-man-was-sick-and-in-the-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=9603","title":{"rendered":"An elderly man was sick and in the hospital."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"92\" data-end=\"282\"><strong data-start=\"92\" data-end=\"114\">The Feisty Patient<\/strong><br data-start=\"114\" data-end=\"117\" \/>An elderly man hated how a nurse constantly talked down to him. One morning, he poured his apple juice into his urine bottle. When the nurse picked it up and said,<\/p>\n<blockquote data-start=\"283\" data-end=\"415\">\n<p data-start=\"285\" data-end=\"415\">\u201cMy, we\u2019re a little cloudy today!\u201d<br data-start=\"319\" data-end=\"322\" \/>he drank it and replied,<br data-start=\"346\" data-end=\"349\" \/>\u201cMaybe I can filter it better this time.\u201d<br data-start=\"392\" data-end=\"395\" \/>The nurse fainted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"422\" data-end=\"573\"><strong data-start=\"422\" data-end=\"444\">The Sticky Revenge<\/strong><br data-start=\"444\" data-end=\"447\" \/>A motorcycle patrolman felt something pulling on his chest after surgery. Looking down, he saw three strips of tape reading:<\/p>\n<blockquote data-start=\"574\" data-end=\"642\">\n<p data-start=\"576\" data-end=\"642\">\u201cGet well quick\u2026 from the nurse you gave a ticket to last week.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"649\" data-end=\"753\"><strong data-start=\"649\" data-end=\"671\">The Doublemint Dad<\/strong><br data-start=\"671\" data-end=\"674\" \/>A man in the hospital waiting room was told by a nurse he had twins. He said:<\/p>\n<blockquote data-start=\"754\" data-end=\"929\">\n<p data-start=\"756\" data-end=\"929\">\u201cI work for the Doublemint Chewing Gum Company.\u201d<br data-start=\"804\" data-end=\"807\" \/>Later, when triplets were announced:<br data-start=\"843\" data-end=\"846\" \/>\u201cI work for the 3M Company.\u201d<br data-start=\"876\" data-end=\"879\" \/>Another man leaving said:<br data-start=\"904\" data-end=\"907\" \/>\u201cI work for 7-UP.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Feisty PatientAn elderly man hated how a nurse constantly talked down to him. One morning, he poured his apple juice into his urine bottle. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=9603\" title=\"An elderly man was sick and in the hospital.\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9604,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9603\/revisions\/9604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}