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A woman was in town on a shopping trip.

She began her day finding the most perfect shoes in the first
shop and a beautiful dress on sale in the second. In the third,
everything had just been reduced by 50 percent when her mobile phone
rang.

It was a female doctor notifying her that her husband had just
been in a terrible car accident and was in critical condition and in the
ICU. The woman told the doctor to inform her husband where she was and
that she'd be there as soon as possible. As she hung up she realized she
was leaving what was shaping up to be her best day ever in the
boutiques. She decided to get in a couple of more shops before heading
to the hospital.

She ended up shopping the rest of the morning, finishing her
trip with a cup of coffee and a beautiful chocolate cake slice,
compliments of the last shop. She was jubilant.

Then she remembered her husband.

Feeling guilty, she dashed to the hospital.
She saw the doctor in the corridor and asked about her husband's
condition.

The lady doctor glared at her and shouted, 'You went ahead and
finished your shopping trip, didn't you! I hope you're proud of
yourself! While you were out for the past four hours enjoying yourself
in town, your husband has been languishing in the Intensive Care Unit!
It's just as well you went ahead and finished, because it will more than
likely be the last shopping trip you ever take! For the rest of his life
he will require round-the-clock care. And he will now be your career!'
The woman was feeling so guilty, she broke down and sobbed.

The lady doctor then chuckled and said, 'I'm just pulling your
leg. He's dead. Show me what you bought.