Subject: Special Delivery


A man took his pregnant wife to the hospital to give birth, and the doctor
informed them that he had developed an experimental neural equalizer that
could transfer some of the pain of childbirth from the mother and give it to
the father.  Both the husband and his wife thought this was a wonderful idea,
and asked if they could give it a try.  The doctor started with a setting of
ten percent, explaining that even ten percent was probably more pain than the
husband had ever experienced in his life.  But the man felt virtually no pain
and asked the doctor to go ahead and turn it up a notch to give his wife
still more relief.

The doctor twisted the knob up to twenty percent, and checked the husband's
blood pressure, which was normal.  Amazed, the doctor turned the knob again
and increased the pain threshold to fifty percent, with the same result.

At this point, the husband bravely volunteered to accept ALL his wife's pain.
Dumbfounded, but very pleased with his invention, the doctor increased the
load to one hundred percent.  After his wife had given birth -- quite
painlessly -- the man stood up, stretched a little, and helped his wife and
their newborn child into the car, all three of them feeling perfectly fine.

But when they got home, they found the mailman dead on their doorstep.

From: Ray