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

No Sarah (not in ours anyway)!!!

charlene you are the best comic character since Adrian Mole and I luffs you.

If your friend is interested in ghosts ? You have to watch quite closely to spot it, but it really is intriguing.

shes not interested in ghosts but terrified of them

op-so whats she going to do about it?

If I could be picky, deceased people are refrigerated, not frozen.

Well why don't you support your friend?

Reiterate there us nothing to be scared if, work through her irrational fears with her, encourage her into therapy etc

Why don't you do that?

maybe you could just tell her that ghosts aren't real, OP?

I lived above neighbours who swore at me, fought, I had to call the Police, they wrote notes telling me to fuck off etc etc. Excuse the pun but I would have killed for dead people.

BTW MrsDVere PMSL at Conservative HQ, pervs hanging around.

Maybe the freezers are for something different altogether?

Maybe its a funeral/ice cream parlour?

"Excuse the pun but I would have killed for dead people"

I haven't actually LOL'ed for ages on MN, MrsTerryPratchett, thanks for that

Perhaps we all need to remember what it was like to be 20. It is barely more than a child - I'm over double that age.

You do view things differently and things us oldies don't bat an eyelid about can take on much more importance.

Could just be serial killers whose "tell" is keeping the body refrigerated.

You're welcome CupOfBrownJoy.

Funeral directors will be all lovely people. The dead bodies will be alright, a bit sullen, but it'll be one in, one out so my advice is that she doesn't get too close to the dead ones.

(although, in seriousness I was a bit giddy still at 20. I bought a house at 21 next to an old cemetery and the scariest thing that ever happened was my son picking up some dried up dog shit - she'll be fine, tell her it'll all be ok and calm her down)

And the freezers don't look like normal freezers..... So how on earth did you reach the conclusion that it was for a frozen food shop?

When I was 20 I was considering applying for a job in such a place...

I'd hate it too! Honestly! You are all a bunch of mean ladies.
Not as mean as the spooky corpses though.

Yes, as long as she doesn't start trying to make friends with them I reckon it will be fine. It would be one of those emotional investments that doesn't really pay off.

OFGS it's a wind up. Probably a NMer who's bored.

I believe in ghosts, and I think most of them are perfectly nice if you get to know them.
This tread is ghostist IMO.

Hahaha I was feeling all and sorry for myself tonight.. Good old mumsnet cheering me up.. I really think she needs to watch out for the bodies and if she hears knocking it might be one that's actually alive trying to get out

I spent my younger teenage years hanging around the cemetery. The weirdest thing that happened was a big storm that upended a tree. As the tree roots popped out of the ground they hoiked up a corpse which hung delicately from the roots.

The morning fag was quicker than usual that morning.