So it's been a really hard few days, and the mourning will continue for awhile, I am sure. We get her ashes in the next couple of days, so that will bring everything to the surface again, I'm sure. But to balance the sadness, I feel I must tell a story that I heard a few weeks ago that I find hilarious. It was told to me by a friend about her friend, so it's a true story. Here it goes:
It's about a girl we will call Jane. Jane is from Canada, but was in some Eastern European country, house-sitting for relatives. She didn't know the language at all, and wasn't familiar with the city she was in. The relatives had a big dog that she decided to take for a walk. She thought she would just start walking and walk a straight path, than after a while turn around and walk back. That way, she wouldn't get lost. So she starts walking. Now, because it was a big dog, she figured she would need to take it on a big walk. So she walks a long ways, then decides to turn around. Now the dog, by this time, is getting visably tired. As they pass a park, the dog drags Jane over to it, lays down, and dies. (Casey would have LOVED to have died in a park, by the way!) Anyway, Jane is in total shock, and doesn't know what to do or even how to ask for help. This is a big dog, and she needs to get it back to the house, at the veryt least. So she comes up with a plan. She remembers that her suitcase has wheels on it! So she drags the dog to some bushes to hide it, walks all the way back to the house, empties her suitcase and walks all the way back to the park, and stuffs the dog into her suitcase! (Oh wait - it gets better!) By this time, Jane is exhausted and decides to take the subway back to the house. So she gets on and sits close to the doors, because she wants to lug this heavy suitcase as little as possible. She's one stop away from her own, when, just as the doors are about to close, this guy exits the train, taking the suitcase as he goes by!!! So her suitcase, filled with a dead dog, has just been stolen!! I'm sure the guy thought he was getting a great haul, only to be totally surprised, and probably grossed out, when he opened up the case! In the meantime, Jane goes back to the house, never to see either the dog or her suitcase again. Thankfully, while her relatives were devastated at losing their dog, they couldn't help but laugh at the total ridiculous-ness of the situation. This type of thing only happens to Ben Stiller in his over-the-top movies!!