| 8/15/2008 12:56:59 PM |
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jazzmin1951
Kansas City, MO
age: 57
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Ok...I'm ready to hear some funny stories about the people we have lost...do you have any you could share?
My Larry was hysterical sometimes...we tell "Larry" stories all the time...Here's one of my favorites:
I'm a cat lover...Larry never really was..but he loved me so he put up with my cat.
I'd had Missy for 9 years...when one night Larry came in from working late and noticed she was laying dead in the road. It was November. BUT...he decided to bury her in the backyard and wait a few days to tell me after I had kind of adjusted to the fact that she wasn't around for some reason. Sooooo....he put her in a box...dug a hole in half frozen ground (at midnite)....came in the house afterwards...took a shower and came to bed.
Next morning we were mulling around the house getting ready for work...I opened the front door like I always did to let Missy in to eat...she slowly saundered in the door like she did every morning and rubbed up against Larry's leg....I THOUGHT HE WAS GOING TO HAVE A HEART ATTACK !!!
He buried someone else's cat that night.
Wasn't that sweet of him???
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| 8/15/2008 8:27:16 PM |
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widow_hatingit
Eastlake, OH
age: 59
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Hi Jazzmin, That is going to be tuff to beat!
Thr property we bgt to build our new house on, needed clearing of some trees in the back yard. Bob used to always try most things, and his fav saying was "You gotta know your limitations."
Anyway, here he is, up in one of the last few trees that he climbed to cut out half of it prior to taking it down, it was a Y shaped tree, and when he was up there, he cut off the one big Y branch, and it started splintering before he could fully cut it. He hurried up and turned around and hugged that tree like a cubby bear, and when that falling branch fell, it hit the side of the tree, and shook it but royal He climbed down and said his knees were like jelly (it was dangerous too) and never again! HE REALLY didn't like heights anyway. But to see him hugging that tree, it was something like from a movie.
Always the Best, BB
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| 9/9/2008 5:32:38 PM |
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guymeister
Brevard, NC
age: 60
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Hi Ladies,
Yes we all have some fine stories. I think it is hard to be too halarious about the passed loved ones. Many of my happiest and funny stories have the children in them as well. So, I can see why more folks don't wanna yuck yuck over their presious memories.
For contenuity I'll think of one.
I like the relationship of the three seperate visits with the children to Disney and the two we had as adults simply playing together. The stories are private and long but the best was always with the girls.
One time on a second visit when they were like maybe 7 and 8 years old, we got a super sized pizza and took it back to our room. Some one said eat pie, and we laughed like rolling on the floor laughing for so long the pizza was getting cold. Why in the middle of a hotel room eating a sorry pizza and just one girl saying eat pie, gassed four people to tears with no other words spoken, is always going to go down as presious moments in my past. Why or what makes things like eat pie funny to tears just can't be explained this side of Heaven."The room just filled with laughing gas"????
Momma made me make two doll houses. You ever see what a home furnishing guy does when he tries to make a hand made doll house. The children turned it into fidos house. Thanks....
ruff ruff, rough on the ego too. boo hooo.
Well, here we are in tears for widows and widowers. The girls and my baby were just on loan for a while. We are left with presious and fond memories in hopes we all shall meet again beyond the darkened sea.
Yah, we have presious moments and fond memories never to be sorry for.
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| 9/10/2008 10:13:04 AM |
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funnysmiles
Perryville, MO
age: 44
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The kids are always asking me about the catsup story. Here goes.
After his meemaw passed on he inheirted her house. We were busy remodeling and hadn't had time to install a central unit. We were living in southern Louisiana and me not use to the heat of south had taken a glass catsup jar and turned it upside down to get the rest of the catsup out. Well it had been on the counter for a few days and hubby decided he was going to add catsup to his hamburger. He went to open the bottle and the catsup literally exploded from the bottle all over him the ceiling the fridge the cabinets it went everywhere. I had never laughed so hard in my life after a min he started laughing and said don't do that no more. We got central air a wk after that.
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| 9/15/2008 10:12:08 AM |
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jazzmin1951
Kansas City, MO
age: 57
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I don't mean to 'offend' anyone...or take away from the sorrow of losing our loved ones...
I just believe...that it does us all good to remember the FUN and FUNNY times we had with our loved one...rather than the sometimes constant sorrow....I know it's hard...and I know we will always tear up when we begin 'missing' them...but I find it is easier for my grown boys and I to tell the funny stories than to sit around and get sad.
My husband was a crack up...he was constantly doing and saying things that kept all of us in stitches...Even when he was sick as hell...he did this.
At his visitation the minister gathered the family in one of the small rooms off to the side and explained that he did this before he would go home and write his sermon to give at a loved ones funeral service...and wanted all of us to share with him our fondest memories...or anything we wanted to about Larry...well....all four of our grown kids were there..ages 19, 29, 30, 31...and two foster children..ages 30 and 32...two grandkids..and several other relation...this meeting was not at ALL what the minister expected...because we all began telling the FUNNY things that we remembered...telling our own personal funny experiences with him...the minister was quite enlightened by the stories...and based his whole sermon on them...he even had the congregation giggling before all was said and done at his funeral service the next afternoon !
I was not offended at all...in fact...I was thrilled that rather than it all being based on the saddness of the occasion...that we were able to share the GOOD times with one another...something that I KNOW Larry would have wanted us to do...HE HATED funeral morbidity ....and I know he was up there joining in with the laughter !
I hope more will write some of the GOOD memories here !
[Edited 9/15/2008 10:23:39 AM]
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| 9/16/2008 7:29:55 AM |
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joesmom1986
Redding, CA
age: 54
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Well my husbands service was pretty funny too. And I know he wanted it that way. My husband loved tie dye t shirts. When we would go on big campouts with friends (which was a lot), my husband would bar-b-q a big turkey. At dinner time he wouldn't give you any turkey if you weren't wearing a tie dye t shirt. Well a friend of mine called everybody before the funeral service and suggested they wear a tie dye t shirt. It was beautiful to see all the bright colors people were wearing at the church! What a tribute to him- I loved it and i know he was laughing in heaven!
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| 9/16/2008 10:01:57 AM |
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jazzmin1951
Kansas City, MO
age: 57
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Joesmom...THAT is EXACTLY what I am talking about !!!
Thanks for sharing that...makes me smile too !
My husband used to love going to Estate sales...and had always told me that he wanted to be buried in a RED sportcoat (I think just to get his mom's goat) LOL
We were at a sale once...and he came walking up to me with this most obnoxious looking bright red...VELVET no less...mariachi looking sport coat and began making a big deal about buying it and having it cleaned for his burial jacket !! I thought "I" was going to die of embarrassement right then and there ! Of course...that was many years before his death...but I giggled at his funeral thinking about it. He also had always told me that he wanted a 'party' rather than a visitation ....We SORT of did that...but not to the extent of having the band and food
He was a great guy...with a great sense of humor ...and an element of naiveness that made him even funnier....and these are the things that I remember most about him when I begin to get sad...makes it a whole lot easier.
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| 9/16/2008 10:09:06 AM |
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jazzmin1951
Kansas City, MO
age: 57
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Here's another Happy/Sad Larry story....
Larry died just 8 months before our 21st anniversary...The day that our Anniversary came around I wasn't feeling well and stayed home from work that day.
There was a knock at the door...and when I opened it...there was a flower delivery man standing there with 21 red roses arranged in a vase. When I told him he must have the wrong address...he verified that they were in fact meant for me...
The card read...
I loved you in life...I love you still...I'll meet you on the other side...Love, Larry
I ALMOST HAD A HEART ATTACK!!!
Of course I grabbed the phone to call the florist...and when they answered I asked them about the delivery...I was holding back my emotions...but lost it when the lady told me that Larry had indeed ordered them..to be delivered on that day...He had ordered them back in January about two weeks before he passed....When I explained to her that he had died shortly after ordering them...SHE BEGAN CRYING !!!!!! I felt so bad for upsetting her...and told her it was OK...that it didn't surprise me that he had done that.
She finally calmed down....and stopped appologizing to me....but...then she said...
"I do need to tell you something before you hang up....He charged these flowers on YOUR CHARGE CARD !!!!"
All I could do at that point was laugh
[Edited 9/16/2008 10:11:21 AM]
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| 9/16/2008 8:53:52 PM |
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joesmom1986
Redding, CA
age: 54
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My husband loved baseball and was a big fan the San Francisco Giants. He worked with a guy that was a big LA Dodger fan. They were always giving each other a bad time.
When the funeral guy asked me for clothes I didn't even think about it, I gave him Bobs Giants jersey. it seem right for him to be buried in it- he loved it. Well the Dodger fan called me... he was laughing and crying. Said he went to the funeral home and was really dreading it but when he walked in and saw Bob in the Giants jersey, he laughed and laughed. He called to tell me that Bob got the last word on thier baseball arguments. So like him- He was laughing over that one too.
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| 9/17/2008 5:07:10 AM |
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jazzmin1951
Kansas City, MO
age: 57
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I've found...on many occasions..that laughter IS the best medicine...even in the case of a disaster.
I honestly don't believe that it's 'disrespectful'...or that if you can find a smile within you in these cases...that it means you didn't love that person...it just means that you remember the "joy" that was in your relationship with them.
I know for a fact that my Larry would have never wanted me to sit around crying ALL of the time ! He even told me once that if I mourned him for more than a couple of days...that he would haunt me forever...LOL
People have to heal however is best for them.
I just prefer...especially after 6 or more years...to remember all of the good stuff.
I don't have any desire to remember how terribly miserable he was during those last days he had on this earth....I believe it's more a a 'tribute' to him for people to know that we truely DID have a wonderful relationship...and that I'm not just blowing smoke 
[Edited 9/17/2008 5:07:57 AM]
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| 9/17/2008 5:05:07 PM |
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guymeister
Brevard, NC
age: 60
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Hi
Thanks ladies for sharing the stories that are presious to you.
My Barbara was such an idea person. She could dream up all kinds great ideas for evangelism to gardens around the house. The latter was always one of the biggest laughs I always had about her. She would want a garden here or there, I would landscape,soil plant and water, but she never wanted to do a thing but cut the flowers or sautee a few veggies.
We would move to another home and she would dream up hundreds of hours of work doing and making things grow. You know I think she just wanted me to be around instead of golfing or fishing. Finally after thirty years of Binford and I tackleing the enviorns we moved some miles into the country away from the gulf and the fishies. To my surprize She was cought making a garden just outside of the window where she read so much. I never did ask her why, but she all of a sudden had a rake and shovel in her hand. If I knew it was our last year, she would of had a garden that looked like Babylons hanging gardens. I never ever minded one bit that I became a yard worker for loves sake. Fond and joyfull feelings comes to me when I think of all the lovely flower arrangements she and we made and gave away. I am sure she always said my Phil grew these. You darn ladies are "all" alike. Thanks.... Especially to Barbara and The Lord Jesus who makes our lives and what we are.
[Edited 9/17/2008 5:14:57 PM]
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| 9/18/2008 4:46:24 AM |
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jazzmin1951
Kansas City, MO
age: 57
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Oh no...we aren't ALL alike LOL My Larry was the gardner/flower person in our family !
He also loved having bird feeders all over the darn place !
Larry's real love (besides me) was amateur radio....Our corner of the neighborhood looked like the local radio station...antennas EVERYWHERE ! He was always climbing up his tower and hanging on it doing whatever amateur radio people do...LOL
He was on oxygen the last six months of his life...I came home one day from work to find the oxygen concentrator sitting on our front porch...the hose was running up the front and over the top of the house...I went around to the backyard and found that he'd tied a rock to it..threw it over the house...put it on...climbed UP THE TOWER..and was sitting on the roof working on one of the antennas!!!!
I almost choked! But...rather than say anything negative...I just asked him to please stomp three times on the roof before climbing down so that I could make sure he decended safely
Wouldn't have done me any good to scold him.. .cause he was just that kinda guy...he was a fighter when it came to his independence..no matter how he felt !
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| 9/18/2008 5:37:03 PM |
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luvallnurses
Durant, OK
age: 54 online now!
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Darrell was an outdoorsman and he loved to hunt and fish. He hunted whatever the season, and I would be a deer season "widow" every year. One fall he had bought a new Black and Tan coon dog and all the neighbors and I heard for weeks was how his "hunter" was going to take the local hunt trophy. He was taking him hunting nearly every night and would come home telling how wonderful the new dog was. One night he came home and did not say anything about his wonderful dog, and he had his hankerchief wrapped around his hand. I asked him what had happened and he just said "Nothing, why?" and kept walking into the bathroom. I heard the medicine cabinet door open and bottles moving around and I got up and went into the bathroom and suprised him. He turned and his hand was bleeding and had a huge jagged gash and for the first time I noticed his clothes were wet. I screamed what has happened and he very sheepishly said his "trophy" dog had gotten tangled up with a coon and fell into a stream and he had to jump in and rescue the dog before the coon drowned him. I laughed so hard I cried...he sold the dog the next week.
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| 9/19/2008 4:42:10 AM |
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jazzmin1951
Kansas City, MO
age: 57
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OMG...What a VISUAL !!!!
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| 9/21/2008 7:30:48 PM |
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kfab1023
Jacksonville, FL
age: 52
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OK here goes we still laugh at this one. One Easter I had some surgury so as I was cooking the ham for the dinner Paul decided to help me. For some insane reason I had put the ham on a cookie sheet to cook I HAVE NO IDEA WHY I DID THAT anyhow the kids and I were coming around the corner when he opened the oven to check on that ham and he yanked that cookie sheet out and I swear I am laughing right now that dam ham rolled off the sheet and up his chest and he jumped back and it rolled onto the floor. He was so mad OMG it was fuunny so then he picks the thing up and washes it off and makes little legs for it out of toothpicks. The kids and I laughed so hard I ripped my stiches out and had to go get them redone to this day we talk about the ham rolling time and I still laugh everytime I think about it
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