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Posted: 3/11/11 at 8:27am
An oldie, but goodie! Happy Friday all!!!
A man was leaving a convenience store with his morning coffee when he noticed a most unusual funeral procession approaching the nearby cemetery.
A black hearse was followed by a second black
hearse about 50 feet behind the first one.
Behind the second hearse was a solitary man
walking a dog on a leash.
Behind him, a short distance back, were about
200 men walking single file.
The man couldn't stand his curiosity.
He respectfully approached the man walking the
dog and said, "I am so sorry for your loss, and this
may be a bad time to disturb you, but I've never seen
a funeral like this. Whose funeral is it?"
"My wife's."
'What happened to her?"
The man replied, "My dog attacked and killed her."
He inquired further, "But who is in the second hearse?"
The man answered, "My mother-in-law. She was trying to
help my wife when the dog turned on her."
A very poignant and touching moment, of brotherhood
and silence, passed between the two men.
"Can I borrow the dog?"
The man replied, "Sure, get in line."
A man was leaving a convenience store with his morning coffee when he noticed a most unusual funeral procession approaching the nearby cemetery.
A black hearse was followed by a second black
hearse about 50 feet behind the first one.
Behind the second hearse was a solitary man
walking a dog on a leash.
Behind him, a short distance back, were about
200 men walking single file.
The man couldn't stand his curiosity.
He respectfully approached the man walking the
dog and said, "I am so sorry for your loss, and this
may be a bad time to disturb you, but I've never seen
a funeral like this. Whose funeral is it?"
"My wife's."
'What happened to her?"
The man replied, "My dog attacked and killed her."
He inquired further, "But who is in the second hearse?"
The man answered, "My mother-in-law. She was trying to
help my wife when the dog turned on her."
A very poignant and touching moment, of brotherhood
and silence, passed between the two men.
"Can I borrow the dog?"
The man replied, "Sure, get in line."
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
