COMEDY VERSUS TRAGEDY AGAIN!...
REMEMBER AGES AGO I TOLD YOU OF THE NIGHT CLUB OWNERS FUNERAL AND HOW THE CRASHING OF THE HORSES TURNED WHAT WAS BY ALL ACCOUNTS A TRAGIC SITUATION IN TO A COMEDY OF ERRORS...WELL, IT SORT OF HAPPENED AGAIN NOT SO EVENTFUL AS THE LAST..MY GOOD FRIEND OF 30 YEARS HEATHER RANG THE OTHER DAY TO SAY HER FATHER HAD DIED..HE WAS 86 IN GOOD HEALTH, ..(well till that point anyway)..A GAME KEEPER ALL HIS LIFE, A LOVELY DOWN TO EARTH GUY..SHE TOLD ME HER MUM HAD RANG HER IN A PANIC AND SAID" I THINK YOUR DAD IS DEAD!"...SHE DROPPED EVERYTHING AND RAN ROUND TO HER MUMS..HER FATHER WAS SITTING ON THE TOILET DEAD...(no he wasn't an elvis fan)...BUT SHE THOUGHT HE WAS ASLEEP AND TRIED TO WAKE HIM..THEY CALLED 999 FOR HELP.. ...MEANWHILE THEY PULLED UP HIS PANTS FOR DIGNITIES SAKE AND PUT A BLANKET ON HIM..TO KEEP HIM WARM??? AND PUT HIM BACK ON THE TOILET...HEATHER RAN BACK HOME FOR HER CIGARETTES...HER BOYFRIEND HAD BEEN OUT FOR AN AFTERNOON DRINK AT THE PUB AND WAS WORSE THE WEAR LYING IN BED..SHE QUICKLY TOLD HIM WHAT HAD HAPPENED AND WENT BACK TO HER MUMS..MEANWHILE THE BOYFRIEND WAKES UP NOT KNOWING WHATS REAL..WENT TO HIS SISTERS AND SAID "I HAD A STRANGE DREAM HEATHER RUSHED IN AND SAID HER DAD WAS DEAD ON THE TOILET..I DONT KNOW WHERE SHE IS"...HIS SISTER SAID MAYBE YOU SHOULD GO AND CHECK AT HER MUMS...HE GOES TO THE MUMS, HEATHER ANSWERS THE DOOR SAYING "COME ON IN AND SEE HIM HE LOOKS LIKE HE'S ASLEEP ON THE TOILET"...(obviously in shock bless her)..HE BACKS OFF IN HORROR RUNS BACK HOME...YOU KNOW THAT MOMENT IN THE LIFE OF BRIAN WHEN PONTIUS PILATE IS SAYING' BIGGUS DICKUS' AND THE SOLDIERS ARE STIFELING THEIR LAUGHS..THIS IS ME AT THIS POINT BUT THEN IT GETS WORSE..SHE GOES ON TO TELL ME THAT AT THE FUNERAL HER OLDER SISTER STARTS KICKING UP A FUSS AT THE GRAVESIDE SERVICE, ON SEEING THE HOLE HE WAS TO BE BURIED IN, THERE WAS ONLY ROOM FOR ONE MORE HIS WIFE OBVIOUSLY,..SO SHE IS TALKING OVER THE VICAR SAYING "I ALWAYS THOUGHT THERE'D BE ROOM FOR ME, WHERE AM I GOING TO BE BURIED!"...(shes only 53)...THEN AFTER THE SERVICE SHE PULLS THE VICAR TO ONE SIDE SAYING IN A LOUD VOICE.."I WANT A PLOT NEXT TO HIM, I DONT WANT TO GO TO THE OTHER SIDE OF TOWN, I WANT TO BE HERE ON TOP OF MY DAD"...THE VICAR IS SPEECHLESS,...A WEEK LATER SHE TAKES HEATHER TO THE GRAVE YARD TO POINT OUT HER PLOT! THAT SHE HAD PURCHASED, ..A FEW YARDS FROM HER FATHER ..A DOUBLE PLOT FOR BOTH SHE AND HER HUSBAND..(poor sod))..NEXT TO THE PATH???..OF COURSE SHE SAID "I WANT TO BE NEXT TO THE PATH"..(why would anyone want to be buried next to a path??).IMAGINE THAT!...SOME PEOPLE ...HEATHER SAID SHE HADN'T SPOKEN TO ANYONE SINCE HER FATHERS DEATH..AND RANG ME...WE BOTH ENDED UP LAUGHING AT THE WHOLE SCENARIO..AND SHE THANKED ME AFTERWARDS SAYING HOW SHE FELT BETTER HAVING TALKED OF IT AND EVEN SEEING THE FUNNY SIDE...LIFE IS STRANGE BUT SO IS DEATH...(when I leave this mortal coil I want to be cremated and my ashes scattered in to the wind..simple, of course they will probably end up on a slag heap or something distasteful..lol)....BUT I WILL BE BACK TO HAUNT YOU ALL SO BE WARNED!...
posted by gypsy noir at 10/23/2006
14 Comments:
Oh, I'm sorry for your friend about her father, but people can react in the strangest ways. I think it's the shock and the need to be distracted from their grief.
ooo poor heather... and her poor dad.. may i drop dead fully dressed sitting nicely in a chair.. with clean underware and make up on!!!!!!!!
id like to be cremated too gypsy.. and stuffed into the same vase that my husbands in.. wed make such a close couple that way.. but then again.. id be kinda worried that id end up with some of his body parts at the ressurection.. same reason i dont organ donate.. how would i explain walking about heaven missing my left eye to some lady in new jersey...
~Lace~
yeah anne marie part shock only as heather is as dizzy as a hamster tied to a record turn table going at 78rpm...oh and answer to previous post comment..i sleep with my eyes open hence the disfuctional blog..lace i think id just need a eggcup seeing as im so small..hmmm thats a strange one body part donation..can you donate your ego as id like to leave mine to a table leg..
see how i left the n out of functional..clever that..
ok i admit it , it wasn't at all clever it was a mistake...
You've been feeding Monty Python and Benny Hill material for years, haven't you?!?!
Very sorry for your friend and her family. Grief really does make people do the oddest things. It's always good to find the humor in a bad situation, though. It heals.
I want to be cremated too, when my #42 plastic gives out, and scattered in a place tbd.....maybe that landfill in Invermere with the fabulous view....
Lol heather = alan robsons nightowls :)
how you do that???
Oh my God, your poor friend (poor father too, but he isn't too upset about anything now, is he?)! That IS quite the turn of events. At least they will always have the story to tell people to get a few laughs...good to have some humour at a time of grief.
Same as when you upload a pic onto photobucket and use the url, you can upload gifs and use the url :)
Gifs are animalted avitar thingys, erm moving characters....arrrgh (in bollo voice)
Bollo no explain very well, Bollo show you next time shes round at your house lol:)
...my sentiments exactly.
We shall haunt together - upon the wind, Gypsy!
I am sorry for Heather's loss, as it's always sad to lose a loved one.
chantal that is geek gook i no comprendé...i'm feeling a bit guilty for making light of it, but i told it as was, not meaning to ridicule her loss..yes dale me and you will be the whisper in the wind..
86 is a long life. Glad he spent it well, being in good health and all.
After hearing that story - I hope when my day comes, that I'll be fully clothed and sitting or lying somewhere else than the loo.
I agree with Rachel, It's always good to find the humor in a bad situation, though. It heals.
i just hope i have my eyeliner and lippy in tact..
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