Broom Hilda by Russell Myers for March 20, 2010

No kidding, there was a funeral home ad in our local paper that offered senior citizen discounts.

Well phooey!

GM MM………I’ve been listening to satellite radio on TV, and been hearing LOTS of Jackie Gleason Orchestra music…………………………

Those were the days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not ready to go yet, are you Broomie.

Broom Hilda has been around over 1500 years and is still going strong: I think she read that ad just out of simple curiosity….

GM,ML! I loved ‘The Honeymooners’.

To the MOON, Alice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The people behind that offer were dead serious.

Let’s see the Energiser bunny outlast Broomie.

@Joe-Allen “Joe” Doty said, 17 minutes ago

But, I had to pay quite a bit of money to [in advance] to take care of opening, closing, mowing the grass, etc.

Uuuhhhh – how exactly would you have paid afterward?

No time for dying when your busy living.

That’s an offer worthy of Claudius Clay (“You plug ‘em, I plant ‘em”) in the classic comic strip Tumbleweeds.

http://www.tumbleweeds.com/claudewart.html

@ N7326 Foxtrot …

A local Funeral Home (NJ) actually did cold calling, asking if their services were needed and if so, it came with a one time (no kidding!) 15% off if you mentioned the caller’s name. They stopped making phone calls after the huge number of complaints. It still makes me laugh whenever I pass their “storefront.”

Hey, my family left me three plots in two cemeteries. All have lousy views. Decisions, decisions.

Lewreader, think of the decisions you’d face if they gave you two plots in three cemeteries…

I only hope I die on a Monday. Garbage pickup is Tuesday morning, and it’ll save everyone a lot of trouble. (But since I’m compostible, I hope they remember to use the green bin.)

In spite of the poor sales pitches and lousy advertising, people are just dying to get in these places.

I remember passing by a monument company – they’re the ones who make the stone grave markers – the sign outside said;

“PLEASE DRIVE SAFELY: WE CAN WAIT”

But Broomie, you can’t find quality and durability like that just anywhere!

“What is he that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?”

“A grave-maker. The houses he makes lasts till doomsday.”

– Hamlet, V:i

If all they said is “you have to agree to use it,” take that free plot and have a picnic on it.

Loopholes; ya gotta love ‘em.