JUST TOO CLEVER

A hospital surgeon was out on his stag night on the eve of his wedding. It was the usual drunken mayhem and the groom drank so much that he blacked out. As a prank, his medical friends carried him to the hospital and put his left leg in a cast. The next morning, he woke up in bed, still a little woozy, and went into a panic about his leg. His best man told him he was lucky to have escaped from his fall with only a simple fracture of the left leg. The groom was forced to get married on crutches and even spent the reception in plaster. As the couple were driven off to the honeymoon, the groom's friends decided that they should tell him the truth. They phoned the hotel where the newlyweds were staying and left a message that his leg was not in fact broken. Unfortunately, in order to prevent his friends interfering with his honeymoon, the groom had given them the number of a different hotel.

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