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to think this is not right

409 replies

charleneanna · 26/01/2012 20:02

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

OP posts:
NorthernWreck · 26/01/2012 23:21

"We all know how to fend off a zombie attack by now, surely?"

Dancing? That's right, isn't it?

Pandemoniaa · 26/01/2012 23:25

It's just a question of being prepared:

  1. Zombies - keep a spade handy. Fetch them a whack with it.
  1. Vampires - keep a box of matches handy. It's fire that does for them.
  1. Ghosts - keep the number of your neighbourhood exorcist handy.
  1. The Just Plain Ole Dead - get a grip. They're dead, ffs. That's D E A D, dead.
olgaga · 26/01/2012 23:28

What if you were lying in bed alone and you woke up at three in the morning and it was totally silent and dark...and then you heard a noise?

A ghostly fart...Shock

lisad123 · 26/01/2012 23:28

This thread is dead funny, I could die laughing! Grin

NorthernWreck · 26/01/2012 23:30

Ta pandemoniaa

lisad123 · 26/01/2012 23:30

If it was my friend, I would have to dress up and go knocking in her door and start dancing to thriller Wink

I know your friend is being deadly seriously but tell her to get a life OR steal one from the ghosts day stairs Grin

BadDayAtTheOrifice · 26/01/2012 23:31

At least its not a mosque, OP

AlbertoFrog · 26/01/2012 23:32

Try and think positively and give your friend support. Better this than anti social, loud, in your face, wake the baby, neighbours.

Funeral directors are very respectful people. Tell your friend to speak to them about her worries, they'll reassure her.

And on the upside - your friend could get cheap rates from the hairdresser / beautician they use.

ComposHat · 26/01/2012 23:37

At least its not a mosque, OP

What the FUCK?

Smellslikecatspee · 26/01/2012 23:38

This thread is so funny people are dying to get on here......ta-dah

sorry

[slinks off in shame slowly]

ShirleyForAllSeasons · 26/01/2012 23:39

Whoa there Compo - we're trying desperately to ignore anything non amusing.

Sure you understand treacle! Wink

ComposHat · 26/01/2012 23:41

Breathe in breathe out ignore bigot

Better now!

lisaro · 26/01/2012 23:41

Oh hello again - how's Sharon?

BadDayAtTheOrifice · 26/01/2012 23:43

that was in reference to another of the OP's (now deleted) threads, not my opinion.

Mya2403 · 26/01/2012 23:43

All she needs to watch out for are the necrophiliacs.

libelulle · 26/01/2012 23:44

Was bout to go to bed tired and miserable, but this thread has really cheered me up no end.

Another serious point - actually your friend could be construed as being quite offensive. FFS these are people's fathers, mothers, sons and daughters lying cold in a mortuary. How would you like it if it was your relative lying there and some fool started wittering on about how scared they were at the thought of them wandering up the stairs in the dead of night (or whatever other idiocies your friend cares to dream up about ghostly activity).

If some of my loved ones cared to come back as ghosts, I'd be pretty delighted actually. I reckon they'd have better things to do than scare your friend witless, though after reading this thread I'd be tempted to send them her way.

Mya2403 · 26/01/2012 23:44

At least its not a mosque, Seriously?

ShirleyO · 26/01/2012 23:46

I wondered if you'd lost your shit there BadDay!

Pandemoniaa · 26/01/2012 23:49

Ah, I see where you are coming from BadDay - a quick search reveals considerable "previous". What a pile of inflammatory claptrap! Unlike this thread, mind, which has the potential to go Classic.

zookeeper · 26/01/2012 23:52

will they have skeleton staff? Grin

BadDayAtTheOrifice · 26/01/2012 23:52

Apologies. that was bad MN etiquette

ComposHat · 26/01/2012 23:52

Apologies Badday thought the ghost of Bernard Manning was on here for a moment.

I've had a look and I guess the previous post was 'i won't let my child visit a Mosque'

If that is indeed the case then op you are a douchenozzle.

cakeismysaviour · 26/01/2012 23:53

I see dead people..... Grin

ComposHat · 26/01/2012 23:54

On a lighter note, embalming fluid is very good for keeping flies off my great granddad used yo use it in summer.

Get on the right side of the funeral directors, midge bites could be a thing of the past.

DioneTheDiabolist · 26/01/2012 23:55

The cafe has lost business?

I know people who would take up residence if there was a cafe close to our funeral directors.