Guys With Pickup Outside Funeral Parlor Will Bury Grandma For Cheaper
TOLEDO, OH Assuring the potential customer that his guys were their best shot at a decent deal in town, a group of men with a pickup outside Peabody Funeral Parlor told a grieving family Tuesday that they would be able to bury their grandmother for much cheaper. “Trust me, you’re gonna get hosed if you stick with the funeral director in there we got the shovels and ropes in the backseat, so we can do this right away,” said Tom Sanford, one of the men gathered around the beat-up truck promising to get the job done in less than 45 minutes or their money back. “We got a real beaut of a plot out behind the quarry, and we’ll treat grandma right. Don’t worry about it, folks. We’re professionals. Let me just ask: How much are they asking for the coffin? I bet we can do it for half as much.” Sanford added that he could sweeten the deal if the family threw in a few other relatives for burial.
Published March 09. 2021 5:23PM
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and certainly in Sunday s issue of The Day, there has been well-deserved thanks, respect and honor paid to those who have put their lives on the line in so many different ways to serve our communities and also to those who perished, often so sadly in isolation from friends and family.
One group that deserves our thanks and admiration are the men and women who worked long hours in the pharmaceutical industry to bring us the vaccines that will protect us and give us hope of a return to some sort of normalcy. We are blessed to have one of Pfizer s major research facilities in Groton where a good deal of work was done in making Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine a reality in amazingly record time. These people deserve our thanks as well.
Wash away 2020’s woes with an icy plunge
1/1/20 :: REGION :: STAND ALONE :: New Years revelers, and runners, splash in the waters of Fishers Island Sound at Esker Point Beach in Noank Wednesday, January 1, 2020. The run and dip, in its 51st year, started as an informal gathering of friends of former Boston Marathon champion Amby Burfoot. The group, which numbered over 100, started at the statue of former Boston Marathon champion Johnny Kelley in Mystic and proceeds along Noank Road at a pace friendly to even the slowest participant to end with the brief plunge a the beach. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)