Funeral drama - when grief meets idiots (long so will be multi-parter)

[Cookie]

Quoth Seshat

If you can do something similar for your grandmother, it might make her last years more cheerful. What was your great-grandmother's favourite flower? Does it grow in your area? If your grandmother doesn't have a small bit of garden, does the flower grow in pots?

My grandma doesn't have a garden at the apartments and she's badly allergic to flowers and can't keep them inside. It's a beautiful idea, though. She has her own mementos of her mother, though. I was given an awesome pic of my great grandma in a funny hat and shawl making a face at the camera.

[AccountingDrone]

They sent my uncles coffin to the wrong cemetery, so there was a little trail of cars following a hearse around the hinterlands of Fairfield County CT .. then some people went a different wrong cemetery and a few of us ended up at the correct cemetery but without a coffin ...

Took about an hour to get everything sorted out. We all figured it was just like my uncle to be late for his own funeral

[Gizmo]

*hugs* cookie. I would have gone OTT on their asses, chucked them out and withheld their payment until I got a full apology.

In the spirit of telling funny things of funerals: I wasn't at my step-fathers funeral (too ill ) but due to the torrential rain (and the fact the ground is clay in that area) the cemetery the grave tried to collapse several times whilst they were digging it so the burial was delayed quite a while whilst they got it stable. Then everyone was told to only step where they saw the officials step... so there was a practically a slow mo conga-line through the graveyard to the grave site!

[Cookie]

Well, grandma just sent scan of an ad space she bought in the local paper to thank everyone who was so nice and helpful including the old pastor of the church. Guess who was conspicuously missing?

[Sunshine]

Thats perfect. Let him stew in his own mercenary juices!

[XCashier]

Quoth Cookie

I do love humor in situations where it really shouldn't be funny.
...I had to smile as I thought of how hard she would have laughed at the conversation with that nice lady. Part of her awesome legacy is her wonderful sense of humor.

Quoth AccountingDrone

They sent my uncles coffin to the wrong cemetery...We all figured it was just like my uncle to be late for his own funeral

A little tasteful humor is not inappropriate at a funeral; laughter is as much a part of life as birth and death. More so if the departed was known for their sense of humor.

Quoth Cookie

Well, grandma just sent scan of an ad space she bought in the local paper to thank everyone who was so nice and helpful including the old pastor of the church. Guess who was conspicuously missing?

I like it! Of course, Reverend It'sAllAboutMe won't get the message.

[Dadeo]

Quoth XCashier

A little tasteful humor is not inappropriate at a funeral; laughter is as much a part of life as birth and death. More so if the departed was known for their sense of humor.

My Grandfather's funeral was full of laughs. He was a jokester all his life. The third drawer on the left of his desk (which I now have) was always full of those little jokes and pranks from the back of the comics. Everyone who spoke had a little humourous story about him. The only suck was the new pastor got his name wrong, but he'd arrived after Grampa could no longer attend so not such a big deal. He was the local doctor for about 60 years and the doctors and nurses gave him one of those sabre arches like the military but with syringes, he would have laughed his ass off.

[Ghel]

My mother-in-law asked to be buried in her nightgown, with a six pack of her favorite beer and a pack of cigarettes. We added a robe, too, and the funeral home arranged it so it looked like she was wearing a nice suit jacket. My sister-in-law added the beer and cigarettes right before they closed the casket.

But the funniest part was how the pastor pronounced "crochet." It came out like croquet.