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Originally Posted by JocelynC
I went to a ghetto wake/viewing last year.
The woman was my grandma's friend. I didn't know her very well so I viewed the body and went to kneel and pray.
Well, in storms the woman's grown daughter. She is using every curse word in the book with the funeral director because "Mama's skin looks like sh*t!"
The man leans over the casket with the daughter so he can see what she's talking about. The daughter is irate and pointing. The man tries to tell her that he really can't see what she's talking about.
She screams "You can't SEE THIS SH*T???" She reaches into the casket and attempts to SIT the body up, while yelling "Look at her face!!"
He attempts to stop her from grabbing the body, since they've spent a great deal of time preparing it.
The woman's brother (son of the deceased) comes in and starts a FIGHT with the director.
The woman and her brother were dismissed from the wake by police.
Oy vey!
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That's funny because I wouldn't necessarily regard this as "ghetto." I have been to a number of funerals and I can say that the closer you are with a person, the more likely you are to notice EVERY SINGLE imperfection with the preparation, regardless of how minute it may be to the average man. And again, when overwhelmed with grief, you act out of character (or if it IS your character, it's magnified tenfold). However, I would consider it EXTREMELY extra to engage in a physical fight with the funeral director.
