Post by copzgirl1171 on Sept 20, 2012 8:58:48 GMT -5
I feel so socially inept at them. Really, like I am always saying the wrong thing or not saying enough. Or staring or not being courteous in acknowledging the deceased laying there. I hate them. Hate. Funerals, not the deceased.
I feel the same way. And being Catholic, we get to double up with the wake. My cousins and I spent 3 hours at our great aunt's viewing mulling around as far from the casket as possible. We didn't even say hi to her husband until he left the room after.
I freakin' hate funerals. So so so so awkward. From my dad's funeral when I was 8 where I felt like something was wrong with me because I wasn't crying hysterically all the way through to MH's grandfather's funeral 2 years ago where I felt like a weirdo because I WAS crying (I'd only met the man once, but once MH started sniffling I lost my shit). I never know what to say to anybody or where to look or what to do. Ever. And then add in my tendency to crack jokes in times of emotional stress and it's just baaaaaad.
Post by copzgirl1171 on Sept 20, 2012 9:30:32 GMT -5
Me too wawa!
I am the type of person who laughs in the eye doctors face when he gets real close with his light. I am so effing inappropriate and not intentionally, it just HAPPENS.
I am always terrified I will bust out a "well he/she looks dead" and do a head bob and walk out and not even know I did it.
I am the type of person who laughs in the eye doctors face when he gets real close with his light. I am so effing inappropriate and not intentionally, it just HAPPENS.
This is me to a T. I'm the proverbial funeral giggler. I deal with uncomfortable situations by cracking highly inappropriate jokes, often to myself in my own head, which causes me to burst into laughter while everyone around me gives me the stink-eye. Of course, this makes me laugh harder. I am so, so inappropriate.