Posted on 09/27/2010 9:50:57 AM PDT by PA BOOKEND
Is anyone else tired of all the elaborate roadside memorials? I believe the whole thing has gotten completely out of hand. Years ago I said we would soon being seeing regulation tombstones in place of homemade crosses, etc. Well, last week it happened. I didn't stop to see if it was engraved (or whatever the process of writing on a tombstone is called), but I'll bet it was. Enough, already. That's what cemetaries are for! Obviously, it has nothing to do with the deceased; it's all about the survivors. I guess the problem with confining such remembrances to a cemetary is that one loses the "see me, notice me, look at me" - the exhibitionism that has infested our culture. I say, 30 days of mementos and that's it. That's what I say.
I guess folks didn’t get the inside joke... :)
Not personally but my will does....:)
Funerals usually happen before wills get read.
Yes!
WHAT has happened to the humor around here? NO one replied to that? I think it’s hilarious...
:)
Good point. Come to think of it, mostly everyone on the road home was taking up space and distracting me. Hmm...
If you want to know what is wrong with with this country it's surely NOT foolish road side memorials.
What's wrong with this country is that people are so willing to harness the the full coercive power of government to remedy their petty grievances.
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