I was out on a bike ride in the relative cool of evening yesterday, and I went through a cemetary, in search of paths I hadn’t been on before. I came across a tombstone covered with inflated mylar balloons.
“Huh,” I thought, “Never saw that before. Did a kid die recently?”
So i scooted over, and saw that all the ballons were “Happy Birthday” balloons. The birthdate chiseled in the granite wasd, indeed, within a couple of days. But they stone was for someone who would have been 79 this year, if he’d lived. And he’d died three years ago.
I’ve never seen anything quite like that before, and I’ve been to a lot of cenetaries and funerals. Has anyone else heard of anything like this?
ASnd after three years, still? Either he was REALLY missed, or they had some priovate joke about his reaching 79, or something.