All Hallow's Eve

[JBFRAME at aol.com]

Having been accused of diarrhea of the mouth in the recent past, I share this 
small fiction in the spirit of fun:


An extremely modest man was in the hospital for a series of tests, the last 
of which had left his bodily systems extremely upset.

   Upon making several false alarm trips to the bathroom, he decided the 
latest episode was another and stayed put. He suddenly filled his bed with 
diarrhea and was embarrassed beyond his ability to remain rational.

   In a complete loss of composure he jumped out of bed, gathered up the bed 
sheets and threw them out the hospital window.

   A drunk was walking by the hospital when the sheets landed on him. He 
started yelling, cursing, and swinging his arms violently trying to get the 
unknown things off, and ended up with the soiled sheets in a tangled pile at 
his feet.

   As the drunk stood there, unsteady on his feet, staring down at the 
sheets, a hospital security guard, who had watched the whole incident, walked 
up and asked, "What the heck is going on here?"

   The drunk, still staring down replied:  "I think I just beat the shit out 
of a ghost."

   Happy Halloween

                   jbf
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