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Well, I’m chuckling at some of the posts here, so I’d say carry on, UTBB and others!

My friend was telling me today about a funeral she’s just been to, where almost anything that could go wrong, did go wrong, including the music system playing the same song three times in succession.

ClicketyClick that has really given me the giggles 😄

nantoseven

ClicketyClick that has really given me the giggles 😄

Me too 😁

And reminded me of that episode of Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected about the leg of lamb!

We went to a funeral a few years ago, a neighbour we knew as a friend.
We were in a car just behind the hearse and then the car carrying her S&D .We could see the hearse clearly.
At the rear door was a large photograph of a middle age lady with children, probably GC.
This was not our neighbour.
After about a mile we all came to a halt and the undertaker got out of the front of the hearse and quite literally snatched the photograph out of the rear door.
Then at the crematorium there was no music, daughter had told the staff the music but didn’t ask and they never questioned about an organist.
We sang a couple of hymns unaccompanied after the presiding minister started us off.
It was hilariously embarrassing.
To this day I believe it wasn’t my neighbour we said good bye to that day and some other family buried or cremated her.

😲
It's the kind of thing you laugh at because it's so awful!

I wonder if another family made a fond farewell to your friend and wondered why there was music when they'd requested none?

My Mums cremation went well enough, not that I recall a lot about it. A few days later we were at a cold, windy cemetery with my Dad waiting for the funeral director to bring her ashes. Up he drew in his very shiny car. Jumped out, opened the boot and went a strange shade of pink. So sorry, I’ve forgotten the casket. My dad didn’t turn a hair, just said you’d best go back for her, don't worry she’ll be where you left her.

We were still chuckling when a very embarrassed funeral director returned. If he had but known it his error helped the whole process along.

We all need a bit of humour to help the world go round.

That turtle image will stay with me uttb .

I went to a funeral of a work colleague some years ago. His best friend stood up to read the eulogy and, all the way through it I kept thinking I know him from somewhere but just couldn’t think where. He then went on to talk about how he and my late colleague had, for many years, belonged to a local drama group and, at this point, I suddenly, to my horror, realised where I’d seen the man before, he’d been in a recent production of the Full Monty that I’d been to see with several girlfriends. I’m surprised I recognised his face!

I was in M&S last week trying on jeans, took in two pairs as I was unsure which would be the right size. I soon found out when I fastened the zip and clasp on the smaller sized pair and then couldn’t undo the flipping clasp. I wriggled and breathed in and tried and tried, but no. Eventually I had to go out and find the assistant to ask her to release me. She laughed and asked if I wanted to lie down to get out of them like we used to do years ago! I said I wouldn’t be telling my children about this. And I bought the larger sized pair…

Sadgrandma

Really enjoying the funny stories on here. It’s so good to guffaw sometimes!

The more recent funerals I have been to here are very much celebrations of life. Most of them have had us laughing as well as crying as little humourous anecdotes are shared from the pulpit. Much more appropriate for most people. Not many hymns now ( which I actually think is a shame) . One had a lovely young granddaughter playing the guitar and singing a song she had written in memory of her grandma. It was so beautiful and she was so talented.

Once, just after a knee replacement op when I was on two sticks, I sneezed and shot backwards luckily landing on the bed behind me sticks flying. I felt like I was in a cartoon.

Having a laugh is essential!

My brother has the ability to reduce me to helpless laughter, always has done since we were children.. Sometimes it’s just over something silly like saying “soldiers” instead of “shoulders” with a completely straight face as in “I hurt my soldier picking apples”. With us both packing up, my OH will get fed up and prissily say “It’s not that funny” which only makes us laugh more. 😂

Usedtobeblonde

More a pickle than amusing.

Thanks for sharing Usedtobeblonde. This is the sort of "pickle" I sometimes get into. I once forgot my key and had to spend ages stuck half in and half out of the window in the downstairs loo waiting for DH to come home.

Not funny for the ram, but funny for us. My husband and I were cycling along a cycle path in the country. In a field next to it there were a lot of sheep, each with a red mark on their backs. Exhausted at the side of the field was the ram sitting down, with his red dye pack on his front. He had obviously had a night on the town. Poor ram. Lots of little lambs next spring I would imagine.

As I have mentioned before, my watchword is John Gay's epitaph: "Life is a jest, and all things show it. I thought so once, and now I know it".

The random-mix of posts makes GN the gem that it is.
Variety is the spice of life! (But don't tell my husband that)

I like light hearted posts!!! You can’t please everyone … there are always those ready to take offence at the slightest opportunity!!!

My mother who was in her 60s got stuck in the bath years ago she weighed over 18 stone.

Elsi the mind boggles 🤣
How was your mother rescued from her embarrassing predicament?

She banged on the wall shouting for her next door neighbour (as she was in a flat.) Neighbours phoned me thankfully and we had to go help get her out very slowly.

Oh, thank goodness she was able to summon help quite quickly.

I got stuck in the bath too and had to wait until my partner realised that I was missing. He stood behind me in the bath with my legs over the side, and hoisted me out. ( I'm not very heavy!) As my daughter put it when I told her " not all heroes wear capes" I have never tried to have a bath again!

There's a saying 'Laughter is the best medicine's

My mother's coffin left the church to the music of Chariots of Fire (a film she and my father loved), on its way to the crematorium. Oops, I suddenly realised the connotations. My friend said that's your mother's sense of humour coming through. Oh yes, she would have thought that extremely funny.