But the men – dressed in black top hats and tails – denied they had done anything wrong, claiming they needed a snack after their ”long journey”. Community nurse Liz said: ”It’s really upsetting to think the body of someone’s loved one was in that coffin and it had been shoved in a car park before it was laid to rest. I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s a complete lack of respect.
”At first I thought the hearse must be on its way back from a funeral but the coffin had a wreath on top of it. I looked through the window and saw a gold plaque with the name ‘Joyce’ engraved on it. There were lots of official-looking papers scattered on the dash board which detailed the funeral arrangements.
”They were in full view so anyone could have seen them. It was shocking. I stormed over to their table and told them I thought they were being incredibly disrespectful. They said they had been travelling from Salisbury in Wiltshire for three hours for a funeral that day and needed to use the toilet, but they were sat down drinking tea and eating cake which made it even more disrespectful.” Funeral directors IN Newman, based in Salisbury, Wilts., apologised for the blunder.
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I don't get it. What else are they supposed to do? Drive around, wasting gas until the funeral starts? I guess if you were an anti-environmentalist, that would be a nice last "f-you" to the planet...
Who are those two busybodies anyway? Nothing better to do than harass two people on a break? I notice they didn't have a place of employment to be at on a Friday?
Exactly, L. It would have been interesting to hear what those women thought the undertakers should have done instead to avoid bein "disrespectful".
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