Conversation Between A Medical Student and A Professor

 

At a medical school, a professor looked at a student and asked,

"How many kidneys do we have?"

"Four!" the student answered.

"Four?" the professor replied, sounding proud and ready to embarrass the student. He was one of those teachers who enjoyed pointing out others' mistakes. Turning to his assistant, the professor said, "Bring some grass, because there’s a donkey in the room."

"And a coffee for me!" the student quickly added, speaking to the assistant.

The professor got very angry and threw the student out of the classroom. But that student was actually the well-known humorist Aparicio Torelly Aporelly (1895–1971), also called the 'Baron of Itararé.'

As he left the room, the student boldly corrected the angry professor:

"You asked me how many kidneys we have. We have four kidneys — two are mine and two are yours. The word ‘we’ means more than one person. Enjoy your coffee… and the grass is for you."