A thought for today!
I found myself with tears today for someone I didn't know and never met. I was in the middle of a small cafe (having eaten much too much as usual!). My Dad - who is a funeral director - started telling me about a customer, an elderly lady, who had to bury her husband. He had died on the way to hospital and therefore there had to be an enquiry which had delayed things a bit. Eventually my Dad got a call from a social worker on behalf of this lady asking if he would arrange and conduct the funeral as this lady was very specific about the firm she wanted to use and there was no branch in her home town. She had not realised that she needed to make the arrangements and had thought the hospital would do all that for her - so the funeral had been delayed even longer than was necessary. Dad agreed, the funeral was conducted and afterwards the social worker, who attended, asked Dad and the hearse driver to go back to the house as the lady had organised some sandwiches. What really got to m...