You Gotta Get It Where You Can...Enjoyment that is!

I work in the funeral profession as an office manager. All I'd ever seen before starting to work there five years ago was the somber side....you know, sympathetic and caring people taking care of you during a very bad time in your life kind of somber. My mother thought I wouldn't be able to handle working in that kind of environment. I wondered, too.

Little did I know, these guys have a great sense of humor. I guess they'd almost have to or else they'd go crazy working around all of that grief. Now, don't get me wrong.....when we have a service, they're all business and some of the greatest guys you'll ever find. When we're not busy, it's a whole other story!

One of the guys I work with has had an unusually "unlucky" streak writing pre-needs insurance (you know, the insurance you buy that "locks in your prices and takes care of making all of your funeral arrangements so your family doesn't have to deal with it when you die" insurance). Last year, this guy would write one of these policies and in a month or two the person would die. We got to kidding him about being the "kiss of death". I told him under no circumstances would he ever write a policy for me (unless I suddenly had a death wish)!

Well, his luck is back. He wrote a policy at the end of August and the guy died yesterday. Now, he's got a policy that he's written and the little lady was supposed to bring him her check yesterday. One of the other guys at the office went around all day looking down and shaking his head saying "Poor Bessie Mae, her time is almost up, poor Bessie Mae!" I told him that when she came in, I was going to yell, "Run, Bessie Mae, Run!!!!" We all got "go to hell" looks!

Some of the stuff these guys pull on each other is so funny, it's a joy working with them. People don't understand when I tell them I love my job. It is stressful, especially when you're dealing with a family you know well, but it helps me to know they're getting the best care they could possibly get. And these guys should be entertainers when they're not working a service!