so, MY day
Jan. 23rd, 2005 10:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7So. Worked at Club Empty tonight. Made $1 an hour in tips, which puts me up to minimum wage. Yup yup.
There are, I think, six US Air Club ladies. One of them had her father die late last year, I think just after Christmas. Another one's father was ill with cancer and died just this week. His wake was today, so all of the various ladies (for some reason, the staff is entirely female) came in to spell one another so all could attend the wake for a little bit.
I spoke to Judy, the one who was staying until closing time. And she told me the following two things.
1) It was an open casket. So the deceased was lying in the casket, and on his lapel was a pin. The pin read, "Thanks for stopping by."
Not kidding. Apparently, in life, he always used to say that, not being a particularly demonstrative or emotional person. So, at the end of a visit, it wasn't, "I love you" or "Hope to see you again soon", it was, "Thanks for stopping by." He was just like that.
2) The bouquet on the casket didn't say "husband", or "father". (You know how bouquets say that.)
No.
It said,
"The Other Half."
I guess they'd known for a while that he wasn't going to recover, so he was involved in all these sort of silly things they were going to do at the funeral. But Judy said, "It was kind of bad, because I was standing there at the casket laughing my ass off at my friend's dead father."
There are, I think, six US Air Club ladies. One of them had her father die late last year, I think just after Christmas. Another one's father was ill with cancer and died just this week. His wake was today, so all of the various ladies (for some reason, the staff is entirely female) came in to spell one another so all could attend the wake for a little bit.
I spoke to Judy, the one who was staying until closing time. And she told me the following two things.
1) It was an open casket. So the deceased was lying in the casket, and on his lapel was a pin. The pin read, "Thanks for stopping by."
Not kidding. Apparently, in life, he always used to say that, not being a particularly demonstrative or emotional person. So, at the end of a visit, it wasn't, "I love you" or "Hope to see you again soon", it was, "Thanks for stopping by." He was just like that.
2) The bouquet on the casket didn't say "husband", or "father". (You know how bouquets say that.)
No.
It said,
"The Other Half."
I guess they'd known for a while that he wasn't going to recover, so he was involved in all these sort of silly things they were going to do at the funeral. But Judy said, "It was kind of bad, because I was standing there at the casket laughing my ass off at my friend's dead father."
