BP Mystery Explained!

A man goes into the doctor for his annual physical. The nurse is taking his basic information.

“How much do you weigh?” she asked.

“One fifty, same as when I was in college!” he replied proudly.

“Why don’t you just step on the scale, and we’ll check,” she said. Turns out, he was one hundred and eighty seven pounds.

Then she asked how tall he was.

“Six foot one.”

Upon measuring, however, it turns out that he was closer to five foot nine.

It was time for the blood pressure check, which came in at 190/110.

“That’s a little high,” she told him.

“Well, what do you expect? When I came in, I was tall and lanky! Now I’m short and fat!”