to think this is not right

[charleneanna]

ok my friend is a 20 year old single parent with a baby she is or was quiet happy in her flat until the other day, we were at hers and we heard some noise so we looked out of her window and the shop underneath her that had been empty for some time was open and a couple of freezers were being taken in so i said well maybe its gonna be a frozen food shop that would be brilliant but then yesterday the sign went up above the shop omg atwells after life its a bloody funeral directors now dont get me wrong they are needed but surely not a shop below a flat in a residential area my friend is now that terrified at going to bed above dead bodies that she has begged me to let her and baby spend the night at my house but my house is already overflowing sorry but this is notnright

What does you think they dead bodies are going to do to her? She won't have to see them.

At least it won't be noisy.

What does she think the dead bodies are going to do to her?

DH used to live in a house belonging to a funeral director - the "shop" was next door but they sort of used the house a bit as well (was an odd set-up). Finding a shroud in the tumble dryer was a bit yuck, but I can reliably report that the dead bodies never attacked.

You need to get out more. Plenty of funeral directors are based in shops with flats above them, one near here is attached to the family home (the business is family run for 100+ years).

She needs to get a grip. We're all going to die at some point!

Unless they turn into zombies and decide she'd make a nice snack during the middle of the night.

You're right, it should be illegal. I mean, what if all the dead bodies decide to get up and march upstairs or something?

Just scandalous.

fine you all take the piss but i really feel for her she nervous anyway just her and baby and this has made it worse and to be honest i wouldnt like it myself

Tell her to get on Mumsnet herself. If she wants a zombie survival plan she's come to the right place.

She and you need to stop being so ridiculous! Been watching too many horror films or something?

Undertakers are not scary places, and the dead don't walk..they stay sedately in their freezers until the time and place for viewing and burial/cremation.
(DH used to be a funeral director BTW)

I'd far rather be above an undertakers than a shop...much quieter..and she is unlikely to have break ins happening below.

Maybe break OUTS... Mwhhhhh hhaaaa haaaaaa

FGS.

YANBU. She should write to the papers.

All of you please stop going on about zombies, it is NOT HELPFUL!

No, what you really want to worry about is vampires.

its better than an empty building? where i live empty buildings are ripped to bits for copper, much rather have a few dead bodies down stairs x

Or her MP. How VERY dare they.

What's the problem? It will be quiet and unlikely to be burgled.

What's "not right" about it? Should funeral directors be prohibited from residential areas because some people are superstitious.

It's not like it is a sex shop.....

The vampires hmmmm, surely ghouls are worse. Especially if there's a necromancer about.

She's probably safer with dead people underneath her than a takeaway or offlicence (or anything frequented by the living).

x-posted with medusa..

I'd much rather live above a funeral parlour than a chippie, an off-licence, a pub, anything that was open late at night.

Most funeral parlours are in residential areas.

Could be worse. Could be a knocking shop opening up down there or a zombie farm or or or vampires could be moving in.

Tell her to stock up on garlic and baseball bats.

Argh! Dead people underneath her FLAT I mean obviously!!!!

LOL, sorry OP...but LOL