Peter Bailey: Mare's New Blog

What is it about death that makes people just act weird around you?   Whenever I go out and people see my wedding ring they will ask about my husband, then I say he's been promoted home and no longer physically with me but I have his ashes which don't talk back to me or interrupt me when I'm trying to make a point.  Then just like a deer in headlights they just stop and uuuhhhggg...It cracks me up.

When I had Peter cremated I purchased a special gold bracelet its shaped like a heart and it's hollow in the middle with a tiny screw on the back.  It holds a little portion they put in of his ashes.  Well, if you know anythng about gold you know that 14k is a soft gold and it broke and the heart fell off.  I walked in to a local jeweler and this is the conversation that presented itself...

Hello I have bracelet here that broke and needs to fixed.

No problem I can take it and add some 10k gold to the loop that will make it stronger and it won't wear through again that quickly....Ma'am...what is this little screw on the back?

Oh...it's kind of a tiny urn and has a little bit of my husband's ashes in it

*At that point he dropped the heart and looked so astonished.

Ma'am I can't work on this...(with a disgusted look on his face)

Why?

Ma'am do you realize to fix this I will have to put it under extreme heat?

UH...yeah...but do you realize he's been under extreme heat and that's why he's ashes?

But...ma'am....what if the screw falls out and the ashes fall out?

Sir..I have a huge box at home full of ashes I think we'll be okay.

Please crack me up!!!