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<blockquote data-quote="unionman" data-source="post: 674442" data-attributes="member: 21107"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #0000ff">Little humor........</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #0000ff">As a bagpiper, I play many gigs. </span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #0000ff">Recently I was asked by a funeral director to play at a grave-side service for a homeless man. </span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #0000ff">He had no family or friends, so the service was to be at a pauper's cemetery in the Kentucky back-country.</span></span></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #0000ff">As I was not familiar with the backwoods, I got lost; and being a typical man I didn't stop for directions. </span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #0000ff">I finally arrived an hour late and saw the funeral guy had evidently gone and the hearse was nowhere in sight.</span></span></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #0000ff">There were only the diggers and crew left and they were eating lunch. </span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #0000ff">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.</span></span></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #0000ff">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.</span></span></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #0000ff">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. </span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #0000ff">Though my head hung low my heart was full.</span></span></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #0000ff">As I opened the door to my car, I heard one of the workers say, </span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #0000ff">"Sweet Mother of Jesus, I never seen nothin' like that before and I've been putting in septic tanks for over twenty years!"</span></span></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="unionman, post: 674442, member: 21107"] [B][SIZE=4][COLOR=#0000ff]Little humor........[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [B][SIZE=4][COLOR=#0000ff]As a bagpiper, I play many gigs. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [B][SIZE=4][COLOR=#0000ff]Recently I was asked by a funeral director to play at a grave-side service for a homeless man. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [B][SIZE=4][COLOR=#0000ff]He had no family or friends, so the service was to be at a pauper's cemetery in the Kentucky back-country.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [B] [SIZE=4][COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [B][SIZE=4][COLOR=#0000ff]As I was not familiar with the backwoods, I got lost; and being a typical man I didn't stop for directions. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [B][SIZE=4][COLOR=#0000ff]I finally arrived an hour late and saw the funeral guy had evidently gone and the hearse was nowhere in sight.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [B] [SIZE=4][COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [B][SIZE=4][COLOR=#0000ff]There were only the diggers and crew left and they were eating lunch. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [B][SIZE=4][COLOR=#0000ff]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.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [B] [SIZE=4][COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [B][SIZE=4][COLOR=#0000ff]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.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [B] [SIZE=4][COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [B][SIZE=4][COLOR=#0000ff]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. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [B][SIZE=4][COLOR=#0000ff]Though my head hung low my heart was full.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [B] [SIZE=4][COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [B][SIZE=4][COLOR=#0000ff]As I opened the door to my car, I heard one of the workers say, [/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [B][SIZE=4][COLOR=#0000ff]"Sweet Mother of Jesus, I never seen nothin' like that before and I've been putting in septic tanks for over twenty years!"[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [/QUOTE]
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