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

It'll be handy though. For that moment when you can't get all the Tesco delivery into the freezer.....

Eurgh Saggy when I was at school (and dissections was compulsary not an option ) one of my classmates put her Home Ec chocolate mousse in the Biology Fridge where the bulls eyes were stored.

You just wouldn't eat it would you ?
BTW, teacher not aware of this weird culinary practise.

BTW does anyone remember afterlife the TV series? Lesley Sharp and HimThatWasEgg in This Life (now starring in a series about Zombies invading America spookily enough).
It was nothing to do with funeral parlours, she was a reluctant medium.
Maybe the freezers are a red herring? Or a Ghostbusters Stylee Holding Chamber??

When I was in primary 4 a supply teacher taught the class this song, I'd just like to dust it off for the benefit of poor, spooked OP and her friend

whenever you see a hearse go by
Whenever you see a hearse go by,
You will be the next to die.
They wrap you up in a big white sheet,
And drop you down 6 long, long feet.
Worms crawl in and worms crawl out
Worms play peaknuckle in your snout.
Your stomach turns to slimy green
Pus runs out like fresh whipped cream
You put this on two pieces of bread
And thats what you eat when you are dead.

I thought I was macabre giving my DS Seamus Heaney's "Mid Term Break" to read.

That's revolting spooktrain

we loved that song

Primary 4 are (cogs whirling ) 8 yo ?

That's the sort of thing they love. And obviously had ,erm, impact because you can remember it word for word.
Might teach my DCs for Hallowe'en

Tell your friend to grow up. She obviously hasn't experienced (m)any deaths in the family yet.

yes, 8 yo. But it was the 70s. I remember envying that teacher's flowing patchwork skirt too.

I've got a skeleton that sings that song Spook, he gets hung on the front door every haloween. It has a movement sensor on it and when anyone approaches the door it starts singing.

I like your style lj

My DH's dad used to sing to him

'It wasn't the cough that carried him of
It was the coffin they carried him off in!!'

Sounds better out loud than typed out!!

MrsDeVere that's a fabulous idea!

OP your friend should definitely do that...and you said we were all just taking the piss - that's some really useful advice you've been given there! She could make £50 from it (£250 if it's one of the featured stories I think...she might even be able to replace any stolen flatscreen with that kind of money too, win-win really!) :)

On a different subject, in all seriousness, if your friend is like you, she really should be grateful it's not a mosque. They don't embalm the bodies, and they sometimes have them in the mosque too (I know because we went in to see my grandad, and all he had gotten was a hose down from the men of the mosque in preparation for his burial)

All of the funeral directors I know are in shops under residential flats. I'm sue she'll get used to it.

70isalimit YES I remember that show. I bloody loved it.
It must have been on about 5 years ago. It wasnt long after we lost DD.
I remember watching a lot of stuff like that (ghost whisper etc). The end of the last series of that the man died and it showed him walking off with his dead little boy.

I sobbed and sobbed. I was so jealous.

It was quite intense and there was lots of tricksy direction. Her mum had killed herself and when she showed up it was pretty scarey.

I think the funeral director should contact Take a Break and do a story about his dead-ist upstairs neighbour.

They could have a great picture of a row of corpses looking sad and angry and the funeral director pointing at the upstairs flat with a sorrowful look on his face

Funeral Directors are born with sorrowful looks on their faces. That's how you know what they're going to be when they grow up.

They could get SAD woman from the Tramps thread to make up the numbers!

:o at the thought of the OP and friend thinking it was going to be a frozen food shop, maybe that's why great aunt Ethel smelled like sausage rolls in the chapel of rest, farmfoods sell their old freezers on to the undertakers when they decide to upgrade.

MrsDevere I watch these programmes (Crossing Over with John Edward and Derek Acorah programmes) with a kind of stomach churning fascination.
The logical side of my brain says it's a scam, and the people on them are so desperate for the tiniest glimmer of hope.
I've read about the behind-the-scenes, the information that's given out (to the medium before the reading). J.Edward gives very random information and asks "have they passed" .Well you're the medium, you tell me!

The saddest bit (I think) on afterlife was in the episode where he goes into Alison's kitchen and says "I'm not ready to leave". Wails!

OP has gone deadly quiet, hasn't she?

The worst one is the Sally whatherface one. She is truly vile. When she 'channels' children she puts her head on one side and uses a high pitched voice and baby talk. Its disgusting.

I like the fictional shows though. I like cold case because you get to see the dead person at the end looking happy.

I like Cold Case too, but I always feel sad at the end.