A married couple went to the hospital to have their baby delivered. Upon
their arrival, the doctor said he had invented a new machine that would
transfer a portion of the mother's labor pain to the FATHER.
He asked if they were willing to try it out. They were both very much in
favor of it. The doctor set the pain transfer to 10% for starters, explaining
that even 10% was probably more pain than the father had ever experienced
before. But as the labor progressed, the husband felt fine and asked the
doctor to go ahead and bump it up a notch.
The doctor then adjusted the machine to 20% pain transfer. The husband was
still feeling fine. The doctor checked the husbands' blood pressure and
was amazed
at how well he was doing. At this point they decided to try for 50%. The
husband continued to feel quite well. Since the pain transfer was
obviously helping out the wife considerably, the husband encouraged the doctor to transfer ALL the pain
to him.
The wife delivered a healthy baby with virtually no pain. She and her
husband were ecstatic. When they got home, the milkman was dead on the
porch.