i know its not really the place but dont we all need a smile now and again.

Please leave me a joke so i can stop thinking sleeve thoughts for ten minutes.

Dalite

xxx:tongue_smilie:

This is just about the saddest thing I?ve ever read!

>> >

>> > As a bagpiper, I play many gigs.. Recently I was asked by a funeral

>> director to play at a grave side service for a homeless man. He had no family

>> or friends, so the service was to be at a pauper's cemetery in the Kentucky

>> back-country.

>> >

>> > As I was not familiar with the backwoods, I got lost; and being a typical

>> man I didn't stop for directions. I finally arrived an hour late and saw the

>> funeral guy had evidently gone and the hearse was nowhere in sight.

>> >

>> > There were only the diggers and crew left and they were eating lunch..I

>> felt badly and apologized to the men for being late. I went to the side of

>> the grave and looked down and the vault lid was already in place. I didn't

>> know what else to do, so I started to play.

>> >

>> > The workers put down their lunches and began to gather around. I played out

>> my heart and soul for this man with no family and friends. I played like I've

>> never played before for this homeless man.

>> >

>> > And as I played 'Amazing Grace,' the workers began to weep. They wept, I

>> wept, we all wept together. When I finished I packed up my bagpipes and

>> started for my car. Though my head hung low my heart was full.

>> >

>> > As I was opened the door to my car, I heard one of the workers say, "Sweet

>> Mother of Jesus, I never seen nothin' like that before and I've been putting

>> in septic tanks for twenty years."