31 Aug 2007, 9:42 pm
31 Aug 2007, 10:41 pm
03 Sep 2007, 12:35 am
michel wrote:
If it's someone I truly care about, I get very sappy and definitely go with sunglasses and keep them on, because I cry the whole time, especially when people talk about their experiences with the deceased. If it's someone I barely knew, or didn't care for, that's a different story, especially if I'm with someone like minded. Oh, then it ain't pretty...
Once, I was at a distant relative's funeral, and the priest was wearing an awful hairpiece, it looked like some dirty, mangy animal who died of fright and had been plopped on top of his head. And you could see his own badly dyed wiry hair sticking out from the sides like a clown. So my sister and I just looked at it in disbelief
, then looked at each other, and we burst out lauging as silently as we could, but then we couldn't stop giggling, no matter what. I kept trying to think of terrible things, like the time I got a gash from falling from a tree, or staring at the floor, nothing worked. Then the priest talked about how "Mr. Leblanc was by all accounts a rigid man..." and I blurted out :"well, especially now..." and my sister cracked up, nearly falling off the banquette. My maman was FURIOUS and told us to get out right now, and we went out and were laughing so hard we were bending over and falling all over the parking area.
Um, let's just say there was no dessert for us that evening...
Once, I was at a distant relative's funeral, and the priest was wearing an awful hairpiece, it looked like some dirty, mangy animal who died of fright and had been plopped on top of his head. And you could see his own badly dyed wiry hair sticking out from the sides like a clown. So my sister and I just looked at it in disbelief
, then looked at each other, and we burst out lauging as silently as we could, but then we couldn't stop giggling, no matter what. I kept trying to think of terrible things, like the time I got a gash from falling from a tree, or staring at the floor, nothing worked. Then the priest talked about how "Mr. Leblanc was by all accounts a rigid man..." and I blurted out :"well, especially now..." and my sister cracked up, nearly falling off the banquette. My maman was FURIOUS and told us to get out right now, and we went out and were laughing so hard we were bending over and falling all over the parking area. Um, let's just say there was no dessert for us that evening...
So you get upset when it's a person you know. But if not....do you feel it's okay to laugh and make fun of others that ARE upset? How is that justified? I'm not trying to be a jerk, I just don't understand how you can't know that what you are doing is wrong. Bite your finger until you stop laughing, or just walk out for a minute.
Honestly, I can't believe someone didn't meet you out in the parking lot and make you stop laughing......Father, Mother, etc. Or maybe someone that got really offended by your joke that their loved one was now "rigid".
Seriously, you got lucky. If you can't keep from laughing, don't go, or stay way in the back so you can leave if needed. If you meet the wrong family and make fun of their dead mother or father like that? They might have a double funeral that day.
If I blurted out something like that, my father would have given me one hell of a punishment. As would many others.
