The Funeral

[Karl/Pa.]

While walking along the sidewalk in front of his church, our minister heard the intoning of a prayer that nearly made his collar wilt. Apparently, his 5-year-old son and his playmates had found a dead robin. Feeling that proper burial should be performed, they had secured a small box and cotton batting, then dug a hole and made ready for the disposal of the deceased. The minister's son was chosen to say the appropriate prayers and with sonorous dignity intoned his version of what he thought his father always said: "Glory be unto the Faaather, and unto the Sonnn, and into the hole he goooes." (I want this line used at my funeral!)

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I was dealing with a new subcontractor who was about to start a drilling job in a small access tunnel at work and he asked me not to call him this afternoon with a start time as he was attending a funeral.

I jokingly replied "I hope he has a confined space permit?"

He retorted, "No its a cremation!"

Quick as a flash I replied, " I hope he has a hot works permit?!"

We somehow got on really well after that and although I didnt stay with the company he still remembers me!

[Karl/Pa.]

Thats a great story. Tnx.