Posted on 05/09/2017 9:46:18 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A New Jersey high school student who hopes to become a funeral director has surprised her classmates by arriving at her prom in an open prop coffin .
Megan Flaherty says she mainly wanted to have fun while attending Pennsauken High School's junior prom Saturday. The 17-year-old says she checked with her date to make sure he had no reservations about her plans.
Flaherty's open coffin slid out of the back a hearse
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Shame the most important thing here that’s being missed is she has a useful goal that she’s passionate about. I dread to think what most 17 y/o girls want to do after graduation these days.
Thanks for the education coffin vs casket. I never knew.
lolol
That picture has been around, eh?
I bet that gal is a grandma by now with the baby now a teen herself. Pregnant and ready for the prom.
People would ask me, 'Aren't you scared?' I'd tell them, dead people aren't going to bother you. It's the ones that are still alive you have to worry about.
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In a word, Sick!
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That's such widespread misinformation!
We don't say "Joisy." New Yorkers say that, although people here often say "Jersey." Personally, I always say "NEW Jersey"
My family has a history of confusing funeral directors. When we were working through my grandmother’s (she was a notorious penny pincher) arrangement that she’d pre-planned we were poking fun about how she stayed cheap right into the crematorium, then we saw the 100% plain no adornments urn she picked we just busted out laughing. Of course we’d all been making fun of her for that for decades, but the director was rather perplexed. We had some similar belly laughs for my grandfather but I don’t remember what got us going, we’re kind of the weird side of silver-lining folks.
How you get to prom is a big thing now. Schools often announce the vehicle each couple arrived in at the grand march. Kids have gone to prom in things from old school open tractors to new huge ones, from classic cars to new sports cars.
It’s a trend I dislike. The pressure it puts on kids (our “good” car is a 2004 suburban) is ridiculous and it is incredibly materialistic.
My son drove a brand new mustang that belonged to his date’s mom. I would rather he had taken his 1999 Durango.
So, she was over the top with the coffin, but they are all doing things like this.
“He was a hot headed man, he was brutally handsome. She was terminally pretty”.............
That got the Addams Family theme song playing in my head.
I’m in this thread late and haven’t read all comments; but I say it’s a borderline prank, definitely an edgy stunt, and I have to also say it is legendary funny.
Driving a hearse is “life in the slow lane”
“I would rather he had taken his 1999 Durango.”
Might have been his date’s mom’s idea. I know how much backseat-room there is in a Mustang, and I know how much room there is in my ‘99 Durango with the back seats folded down. :)
“Driving a hearse is “life in the slow lane” “
Life in the “passed” lane.
She should have hopped out, and the dude behind her should have said ‘BOY!’ before holding up a small steel orb.
I got to use the folks’ 1963 Rambler wagon. Its front seats folded back into the “all the way” position; that was a rare feature in those days.
Passing out the “Not a 10” cards, eh?
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