One of the more unexpected things that happened after my mother died has been my enjoying the funeral home.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, but, perhaps I ought to be more specific.
We were lucky enough to do business with a fine group of people who have a long tradition in the funeral industry here. They were wonderful to us in every way, and, truly care about what they do. I've had reason to go there several times since the funeral, and, I have been throughly enjoying hanging out with them while I'm there, They always have great stories, and, they even fed me breakfast this morning.
One of their better stories which I believe to be true:
A lady was attending a visitation at a funeral home, and, on the way to the restroom, spontaneously signed the visitor register of another family since there were no names on it. A couple of months later, she got a call from a lawyer's office:
"Are you Mrs. (whatever her name is)?"
"Yes."
"Did you sign the register of the deceased Mr. (whatever his name was)?"
"Yes, I did."
"Is your address (whatever her address is)?"
"Yes, why?" (getting very nervous now)
"We just needed to confirm this information, and, you will be receiving a check in 6-10 weeks."
Seems that she signed the book of a wealthy gentleman who was also a funny guy, and, in his will it stated that the first 10 people to sign the book at his funeral would get $10,000, and, she did.
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Makes me want to go around randomly signing funeral books.
I am going to sign all the books next time I got to the funeral home. Just in case. :)
So, while you are busy signing registries, would you add my name just below yours, please?? *smile*
Why does that never happen to me?
great story! Not that I want to be going, but next time I'm at a funeral home, you know what I'll be doing.
whoa!!! cool! Whenever we go to weddings, we sign the book as President G.W. Bush or Bill Clinton or something kooky like that!
you are so funny!!! just drop on by the funeral home on the way to work-- take them a latte!
I have always thought that would be a good industry to be in, for the most part. I actually have a distant relative that owns several in florida..
I wish that happened to me!
I'll admit I've had other people sign the registry for me at a wedding or a funeral I couldn't get to. I figure in either case, the participants are in such a blur they don't remember who was there or not.
Of course I didn't know that I could have been committing fraud!
Wow! That's quite amazing!
My MIL went to a funeral home visitation once and signed the book and got all the way into the viewing room where the casket was before she realized that she didnt know the person....she was in the wrong room!! She just nodded to the family and walked out like nothing was wrong....she got no check.
She was the only one to sign? Does that mean there are still 10 more spaces? Sign me up! Can they send a check to an URL?
Man! That's better than the lottery! My luck would have me be the 11th signature.
I loved this! I hope to have lots of money at the end of my life, so I can pull off something like this.
Of course, all the best tales do seem to be urban legends...
http://tinyurl.com/zdn6n
I love that guy's sense of humor! Maybe I'll have door prizes at my funeral. 25th visitor gets a free toaster oven! 50th gets a free clock radio! How awesome would that be?
Gosh! I've never heard of anything like that. Kind of like winning a little mini-funeral lotto.
Everybody I've ever known who was in the funeral business has been a hilariously funny person. I think you have to have a twisted element about you to be in that line of work.
After just returning from burying Terry's grandmother, his cousin is a mortician and one, they make good money and two, they think of what they do as a calling or a ministry, which it really is. Funeral people are a really tight family, too.
Thank you for making a sad occasion a funny story!
Great story!!
Life is never predictable. We just need to live it.
And then, boom! Suddenly we got ourselves surprised by many unexpected things...
Dad was long in dying, so we had a close relationship with the funeral home family by the time he died. I was pregnant when we started making his plans, but had my oldest son shortly before Dad died. The funeral home family was aware of the birth and sent me flowers! I think I was equal parts touched and creeped out. :D
I guess you really like them to believe that story. That may very well be one of the oldest Urban Legends I have heard about in quite some time.
http://www.snopes.com/luck/will.asp