I better go just to show my face!

One of our old family acquaintances went to all of the funerals within a twenty mile radius. He popped up in the most unlikely places for free tea, booze and sandwiches.

Whenever he wasn't at a funeral, he was described as "sniffing for a corpse":eek:

Go for the triangle sandwiches;)

I had a strange experience about a month ago. An old friend of my dad passed away, a man I never met. My dad hadn't seen him for a year or two, and he passed suddenly enough. MY old man did a lot of work with this guy many moons ago, and would have known his family through having lunch in their house etc.

On the evening of his funeral my dad was travelling with work, so he wasn't around to attend. He asked myself and my mum to go (my mum had only met him once in the past, years ago), so I said I would, if only for my dad.

Now I didn't know a single face in the dead house, nor many outside it. When my mum and I got to the deceased mans wife, my mum introduced me, explaining why my dad couldn't attend. This was the strange part. Her eyes almost lit up, as if she were looking at my dad. We even spoke for about 15-20 seconds, with her daughters beside us also smiling knowing who we were.

It was mad that, even though my dad couldn't 'show a face'...the people seemed so grateful that my mum and I were there and to be honest seeing there reaction made the whole trip worthwhile.