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 will be fine, the people are dead so they won't hurt her!

Grow up to fuck.

Death, part of life, innit? And your mate didn't live in a haunted house, she's just over anxious and paranoid.

"Noitications" I like that, I might incorporate Noitications into my everyday vocabulary.

My Sister works in a funeral parlour.

She organises funerals from start to finish and dresses the bodies/puts make-up on them/brushes their hair etc...

It's a very sad job but also a very satisfying one because people depend on her to help them do the last thing possible for their loved ones.

To be honest, the only thing your friend should be scared of is losing the flat as the funeral director normally lives upstairs to the shop...due to bodies arriving at different times throughout the night.

But you are clearly much older than your friend, it is insane for ou to be colluding in this fear rather than saying "look, it's ok I saw my mam etc, etc and when you're dead, you're gone - nothing to worry about darling"

What's wrong with you that instead of cooling the sitch and calming it down you're being all SHOCK HORROR DEAD BODIES IN RESIDENTIAL STREET ZOMG!!!! About it.

For goodness sake.

FFS, why did your "friend" think the flat was cheaper than others, above shop properties are because of the risk of ending up over a late night venue or smelly chips shop or bakery that opens at 4am. Your "friend" is lucky it's none of those and something nice and quiet and calm and office hours only that doesn't create any antisocial noise, trade or smells

As my old Dad always says, It's not the dead you want to be afraid of, it's the living you need to look over your shoulder at.

Just had a thought, if they have all this freezer space then maybe they can accommodate your friend's turkey at Christmas if her freezer gets a bit full.

the flats above the shops are council housing not private and not cheap

I'd rather live above a funeral home than a fucking Iceland.

they have asked if for a fee they can use her garage she was quick to say no even thought she doesnt use it

I'm not bothered about being in a house where people have died - mine has had had at least 3 deaths that I know of probably more (old house, people used to die at home before society decided that the old and ill should die in hospitals).

I am very sorry to hear about your losses, Shirley and MrsDevere, but that's not what I meant. I think it could be upsetting to live constantly near the aftermath of death - other people's deaths. And, in the case of living over a funeral parlour, other people's grief.

Kladdkaka's just made me laugh though.

Whatever, there's not much the OP can do about and "in the midst of life we are in death" and all that. Guess it's get used to it or move house, really.

Good cos if it's council property then it would be sub letting

they don't keep fucking bodies in garages, they respect them they probably keep CARS in garages they rent! FFS!

and boo hoo her flat isn't cheap, but now she doesn't jump at the oportunity falling in her lap to make use of an unused garage. Sounds a bit of a tool!

They were unloading the van for another whole half hour?

Something is not right at all there.

didn't think about sub letting, but could she not get permission for it like you can if you have a garage and a private landlord?

Well whatever they wanted the garage for, they're a commercial business so would not be allowed to use it.

Oh. You go too far.

They asked to use her garage to store dead bodies? They would never do that because when everyone goes home they prop all the Deadies up in a big row - like dominoes and then the first person in the morguetoary the next morning gets to knock them all down.

So no way would they need the garage.

No Reduce not even if she didn't charge them.

fair enough, but I don't think that was the issue the OP had with it...

they don't keep fucking bodies in garages

PMSL! :o

It is a shame that death is a taboo subject-it is the one sure thing in life.

Oh but think of the fun she could have if she makes friends with them. Sneaking down of a night to hide in the coffin that's in the front window, wait for someone to walk past and leap out of it going 'NNNNNUUUUUUHhhhhh! BRAAAAAAIIIIIINNNSSS!'

and she could have amazing Halloween parties!

she should think herself lucky for getting a council flat surely?