andyhinch said:
another generation said:
Not when it's windy, they're not.
Tell me about it, I got covered in them when I was scattering them.
True story:
When my mum died and she'd been cremated I still hadn't decided what to do with the ashes. So I had them in a box(the one they came in) on the mantlepiece.
Fast forward to the new year and as per, we held a new years eve party. My cousin who has a sense for the dramatic, waltzed in at midnight in floods of fucking tears. Wailing at the top of her voice about how much she missed her aunty Jean and this new year is not the same without her.
Now I love my mum and missed her more than anybody but she really brought a downer on the whole party.
I put my arm around her, told her it would all be ok and my mum would want her to enjoy herself. Told her she should calm down, and I'd sort her a drink out.
I nipped into the dining room, poured a glass of wine and put it on top of my mums ashes. Then carried the box containing her ashes with the glass of wine sitting proudly on top, through to the lounge, were she was still sniffling away.
"Here" I said "Have a drink on my mum"
She looked at the box(she knew what was in it) then at me, then at her husband and then proceeded to scream the place down. Calling me a "fucking bastard" and an "evil ****" before flouncing off upstairs to the bathroom.
I meanwhile was rolling around on the floor, unable to contain my laughter. Everyone else saw the funny side and the party continued as normal.