> > > > > Alex, age 8, made the comment that funerals are boring. So his grandmother asked him if he had ever been to a funeral. He said that he had and when she asked whose funeral it was, he replied, "Yours."
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> > > > > This all goes back to that anniversary party that was held for us in a funeral home, because we had been married, a long time ago, in the chapel of a funeral home. He smoothed it over a bit by saying that it was boring only part of the time.
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> > > > > I guess since that's where it was, in an 8-year-old mind, that was a funeral.
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> > > > > Grandma and Grandpa both managed to keep a straight face, but it wasn't easy.
> > > > > Howard
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> > > > I guess you need to put the "fun" back into "funeral", then.
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> > > > (grins, ducks and runs)
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> > > > Sorry, I just had to get a chance to say that.
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> > > That's OK. I recently went to my uncle's funeral and saw a bunch of my cousins that I don't see very often. It was like we were kids again. We laughed and joked and kidded. It was fun. Even the minister cracked a joke or two about Uncle John, who was a very good-natured guy.
> > > Howard
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> > I just noticed a slight error in that subject line. It's just a typo. I really know how to spell funeral.
> > Howard
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> Just an interesting piece of information: When I was in San Francisco for my journalism convention (Best. Times. Ever.), I went to this workshop about interviewing face to face. The premise is that you get to know personalities better, right? So, the speaker brought in this lady who did the judging of the newspapers from various schools and told us to determine what she was like from looking at her. (The consensus was that she looked like a very grandmotherly type who could make very good chocolate chip cookies. She was actually a former police chief and mayor.) Well, one of the most interesting things about her you'd never have known was this. Her current husband is a minister. Who presided over her first husband's funeral. Yes, that's right, she married the man who she met at her first husband's funeral.
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> I don't know if I'm just totally morbid or something, but I (and everyone else, for that matter) found this hilarious and something extremely interesting. The lady really was a pretty adorable grandmother type, though. Although it does seem to be something along the lines of marrying the lawyer who helped you divorce your husband.
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> ~Crystal"Okay, not much to do with funerals, really, and it was really long, but I needed to share"109

I went to a National Education Association convention in San Franscisco in 1970 and it was "(Best. Times. Ever.)" in those days too. It never changes.
Howard