Hospital Policy

Hospital regulations require a wheelchair 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 being 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."