“The Body Slid To The Front Of The Casket As We Went Down The Steps And Took All Six Of Us Down”: People Are Sharing Their Wildest Funeral Stories

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“Not a funeral director, but we catered one where a woman’s husband had died.”

“A lady from their church showed up at the funeral luncheon with her own van full of food because ‘our food wasn’t made with love.’ She had fried chicken, hotdogs, baked beans, a whole giant sheet cake, five massive deli trays, fruit and vegetable platters, a bunch of ice cream and toppings, mashed potatoes, chili, macaroni salad and potato salad, all sorts of cookies, chips and crackers, and about 20 gallons of Hawaiian punch. It was a wild amount of food. 

There had to be enough there to feed over 300 people, and this was a small funeral with about 50 attendees. She was walking around yanking people’s plates out of their hands and piling them full of the food she’d brought, and chewing them out when they tried to say no thanks. 

She tried to throw away all the food we’d brought, then tried to tip over the table of sandwiches we had set up — luckily she was a tiny old lady and couldn’t budge the table — and then she tried to claim my coworker had tried to strangle her. After that, she was finally told she needed to leave immediately, so she screamed a bunch of cuss words at everyone in earshot, then stormed outside and dumped all that food in a big heap in the middle of the church parking lot and drove off in a huff. The whole thing was just surreal.”

–Huggable_Hork-Bajir