This was inspired by a “No Smoking” sign in our town’s old cemetery.
Hey, don’t knock it! Where else can you find Equality, and total unanimity (we call it “diversity”)? It’s even better than college because not only is there absolutely nothing that you have to do, but no one even expects you to do anything. And you will never, never, ever hear a single word that makes you feel Unsafe.
You have to admit cemeteries are low-risk places. 🙂
Nor always. When I lived in Baton Rouge, a friend of mine who worked at a cemetery told me that sometimes the coffins would float away on the water table almost to the river. That’s why so many people chose to be buried in mausoleums or other above-ground enclosures.
He also told me that they sometimes had to chase people away from trying to fish in the cemetery’s ornamental lake. (I hope I don’t have to explain to you why fishing in a lake in the middle of a high-water-table cemetery is a bad idea.)
I would very much like to unthink that thought.
I think that I would like to unthink that, too. 🙂
Phoebe’s comment reminds me of those who catch fish in the canal right in front of my apartment. Sanitation isn’t good here, so what you flush down the toilet, from many homes probably makes its last stop in those waters.
How true, a graveyard is the definitive equity space.