The Bodyless Head
A woman is in the delivery room in labor. One final push and the baby
comes out. Above the baby's pitiful first cries, she hears the horrified
gasps of the doctor and shrieks of the nurses. The baby is rushed away
before she can see it.
Later, a doctor comes in and says, "I'm afraid there's a...problem with
your new son. It seems he was born without a body."
She stammers, "You mean..."
"Yes," the doctor says, "he's just a head. But, on the bright side, he's
a perfectly healthy and normal head."
The years pass by, and the mother takes to putting her son (now a
teenaged head) on a table upstairs near the window so he can look out at theother children playing. One day, the phone rings. It's the hospital. A surgeon informs the woman that there has been a horrible accident, and a young man has been completely decapitated. There is a good chance that her son's head can be attached to the victim's body!
She drops the phone, runs upstairs to where her son has rested most of
his life and says, "Son! I have the most wonderful surprise for you!"
The kid looks up at her and replies, "I hope it's not another hat."
(from me - how did they know it was a boy?)
Paul says they attached the head to the body but the body was
rejected and died. The boy was so excited with the possibilities that he
asked them to try again with another donor body but both died in
surgery. He should have quit while he was a head.
A woman is in the delivery room in labor. One final push and the baby
comes out. Above the baby's pitiful first cries, she hears the horrified
gasps of the doctor and shrieks of the nurses. The baby is rushed away
before she can see it.
Later, a doctor comes in and says, "I'm afraid there's a...problem with
your new son. It seems he was born without a body."
She stammers, "You mean..."
"Yes," the doctor says, "he's just a head. But, on the bright side, he's
a perfectly healthy and normal head."
The years pass by, and the mother takes to putting her son (now a
teenaged head) on a table upstairs near the window so he can look out at theother children playing. One day, the phone rings. It's the hospital. A surgeon informs the woman that there has been a horrible accident, and a young man has been completely decapitated. There is a good chance that her son's head can be attached to the victim's body!
She drops the phone, runs upstairs to where her son has rested most of
his life and says, "Son! I have the most wonderful surprise for you!"
The kid looks up at her and replies, "I hope it's not another hat."
(from me - how did they know it was a boy?)
Paul says they attached the head to the body but the body was
rejected and died. The boy was so excited with the possibilities that he
asked them to try again with another donor body but both died in
surgery. He should have quit while he was a head.