ok, so today we catered a funeral wake........which turned into a lot of fun after the family left and the funeral director stuck around to help finish off the buffet.....seems that the family, who ironically insisted on a lavish spread, balked at the cost of an urn........and showed up at the funeral home with a teapot from the deceased's china cabinet...........the funeral director could only fit half of the ashes in the teapot, and told the fiuneral director to dispose of what did not fit........so friends of the deceased turned up with yet another teapot (one that the deceased had admired) , and presumably the deceased is now literally...in two places at once.........as the friends are not sharing their half of the ashes with the family...........whooooo.......one of the daughters of the deceased alledgedly accused one of the friends of stealing the deceased's mink coat, which is laughable, as the friends outweighed the deceased by at least 100 pounds and could not have fit her arm in the coat........so the friends did not come to the lavish wake at our resaurant, and are instead, mourning in private.......and then there is the story the funeral director told about the booking of our restaurant in the first place.......one of the daughter-in-law's had called us, at the suggestion of the mother of the deceased.....and ordered an extensive array of food......then the church holding the memorial let it be known that they had already taken care of booking a buffet at another downtown caterer's dining room......so a daughter called back to cancel......until she saw the room....... then she called us back to reinstate the previous buffet order.....ouch........the mother of the deceased left several large flower arrangements in our lobby....asking us to make use of them somehow........while we were talking to the funeral director, a latecomer breezed in the lobby, grabbed up one of the arrangements, then walked back out.....it was quite bizarre........and then there is the story the friends tell about the mother of the deceased, who, within hours of the actual death, was seen in the deceased's yard attempting to pull down her wrought iron fencing.......'because she would have wanted me to have it' the mother said when questioned about the taking of the fence.......she ended up calling in workman to do the deed....... presumably before the deceased's children arrived in town...........posession IS 95% of the law, is it not?