Funny moments at funeral's!

Went to a funeral with two work colleagues. It was the husband of an employee I hardly knew, and my boss had asked us to attend on behalf of the company.

Traveling from the church to the graveyard was by car, we were first out of the church and decided to pull in at the main road and wait for the funeral convoy. Comes along and we join up.

Everyone pulls in at the graveyard and we get out. Walk up to pay our respects and notice it's not the same crowd. We'd followed the wrong coffin and ended up at a different cemetery 5 miles away.

Went to a funeral once and the corpse got out of the coffin, started dancing erratically, then went back into the coffin and the ceremony resumed as normal.

Your everyday happening in Carlow.

knucklehead6 wrote: »

Three yr old girl from the Philippines, living in Carlow?

There's a lot lower than that I can assure you.

Moreover, why is she in your avatar, you dirty old pervert.

About a year ago my neighbours arrive home one evening all dressed up. Now, he is never tidy, so I commented to his wife how she managed to get him cleaned up.
She replies," Ah, hes away to bed".
Me, "Oh I know the feeling, we all have days like that", thinking they were at a do of some sort.
About an hour later Mrs McJoe walks in and says, "See John's mothers dead".

Only then did I realize what his wife was telling me, (his mother's dead). Had to go and apologize/sympathize.

Years ago at a dear friends parents' funeral mass, myself and best friend were sitting beside eachother. At one point in the mass everyone kneels down while she proudly stands up (and doesn't realise she's the only one) One of those moments, where you just cannot stop laughing and keep setting eachother off, because you know it's so wrong, so inappropriate and looks so bad.

Was at my grand-uncle's removal a couple of months ago and me and my mother went in to shake hands and offer our condolences etc. There was this old lady ahead of us doing the rounds, no idea who she was. Anyway she's shaking hands with my grandfather when she does a massive sneeze and gets snot all over his hand. Most people were just looking around awkwardly but I had to leave the room in absolute stitches!

At my grandmother's funeral some years ago, the coffin had been lowered into the ground, and the final prayers were being said. My mother was obviously very upset at this point. We were all around her, holding her, comforting her. And then a frog fell into the hole and was sitting on the coffin, looking up at everyone. Lightened the moment somewhat. Don't know what became of it.

My dad died recently, I was actually abroad when he went into hospital so had to dash home travel almost 18 hours flying and I managed to say my goodbyes before he drifted into sleep. While I was in a daze as was the rest of the family, it was the first time in years we actually started thinking about all the crazy business ideas the man had and what he had put us through to get through life. A great Dad he was and always will be to us...

However, during the wake which was held at home, the house was packed for three days. On the afternoon before the mas and burial, my siblings and I all went upstairs to my room, which was above where we had laid out dad downstairs to write the Eulogy. People were still streaming into the house it was literally heaving. Unknown to us upstairs, the priest had arrived. We started putting things down on paper and were all literally falling around the room laughing and crying at the same time, we were having a great time remembering our dad, it really brought us together for the first time in ages, it was like we were kids again.

Finally we went downstairs, house packed and silent all looking at us... mother throwing daggers.

We didn't realise they were saying prayers underneath us and the noise from upstairs was deafening..;)

this thread brings home how the irish people are so much better at dealing with death than where i am in the UK. over here it's a stiff upper lip thing, you wait a couple of weeks for your slot at the crematorium and then it's done in a few minutes. all very sterile.

anyway, at a funeral of a relatively young neighbour a few years ago, an older neighbour was sympathising with the family saying how shocking it was. the poor lad died from electrocution!