My life is more Important then ANYONES..ew

[lobo65]

Quoth Merriweather

I don't recall what it was, but something made me think of that the other day. You used to see funeral processions often, all the cars going slowly, with headlights on, and no one would pass them or get in the middle, and you let the entire procession go thru, even if lights changed, etc. I can't recall the last time I saw that. Maybe nowadays everyone doesn't go from the funeral to the cemetary all at once, people just go more singly? I've no idea, the only funerals I've been to in decades were my parents funerals, and both their funerals were in the tiny country church my Dad grew up in, and then they were buried there in the old graveyard around the church. So no procession.

I live in Mississippi, and that kind of thing still happens often here.

[Zoom]

Quoth Merriweather

You used to see funeral processions often, all the cars going slowly, with headlights on, and no one would pass them or get in the middle, and you let the entire procession go thru, even if lights changed, etc. I can't recall the last time I saw that.

Had one late last year. It helps that the street I cross to get to work is near a good funeral home.

[Geek King]

In Ohio, they still have those kind of processions for cemetary burials. In my younger days, the name, famous or not, didn't matter. You showed a funeral procession respect because it carried the remains of a human being with enough people who cared about them in life to need a procession. It was just the decent thing to do.

Police escorts were usually hired for large processions, or those needing to take a freeway, so traffic could be managed as needed. Someone well known in the community could have a procession that lasted several turnings of the traffic lights.

[depechemodefan]

[OT] One day I stupidly went my usual route, which passes by 2 schools, on the first day of school. So traffic was going 5 miles an hour. A school police car was driving behind me and it flashed it's lights so I pulled over. It kept on going (or tried to keep on going, people in front won't pull over). I tried to get back in lane but the bunch of assholes driving won't let me get back in.