Today, no matter how hard I try, I just can’t recognize a funeral procession when I see one. It just looks like a bunch of cars to me. I should probably get off the road for good. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I was stuck in what I thought was traffic on my way home from work. I started weaving in and out of traffic because it seemed to only be a few cars holding up the line. I get to the front of the line and I'd realized I just weaved through a funeral procession. FML
Today, I got stuck in traffic and angrily honked at the car in front of me. Then I realized it was a hearse. FML
Today, it was my uncle's funeral. As we were in the cars behind the hearse, I lost sight of it in traffic, ended up taking a wrong turn, and getting lost… As did half the cars behind me, who also didn’t know where the crematorium was, and just kept following me. We delayed the funeral quite a bit. FML
Today, while driving in a funeral procession I was distracted, missed my turn and yelled "God dammit!" I'm the funeral director; the Priest was in the car with me as I led the funeral the wrong way. FML
Today, I attended the wrong funeral. I spent twenty minutes trying to hide and walk away without being too conspicuous. FML
Today, on my first day driving a hearse, I took a wrong turn and of course every car behind followed me. Out of pure habit I had turned right into the main street as though I was driving home, when I should've turned left. At least my wife got to see me from the window as I drove past the house. FML
Today, my car alarm went off during a funeral. Three times. FML
Today, my car crapped out in the middle of the road, after over a year of only being able to find short contract jobs, all while juggling the grief of the back to back deaths of my mother and grandfather. FML
Today, I've had so many family members die in the past 4 years, I now think of which pictures would look good at people's funerals when I look through photo albums. FML
Today, my mom and I went to visit my Dad to wish him happy birthday. I was at a red light, waiting to make a left-hand turn into the only driveway, and once the light turned green, I was unable to go, because another car was coming out. Cars behind me were beeping. I was turning into the cemetery. FML
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ojoRojo 27
How many funeral processions are you encountering that this is such a major issue for you?
AstroTurf Matador 8
Not true. When I used to do delivery, I came across a lot of funeral processions. There was always multiple police escorts. Having signs and your headlights on doesn't help when you go through a red light. The cross traffic will not see this. That's the main reason for the police escort. They block the cross traffic at the stop lights so the procession can proceed safely.
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hope jm 5
seriously, a BUNCH of cars blowing a red light?!? also with either day glow stickers or flags? but again... They're ALL blowing the red light.... duh
sarsuela 29
Good for you for realising that but how do you not recognize it?
AstroTurf Matador 8
So, the fact that there are usually 2 or more police escorts and they all have their headlights on during the day doesn't clue you in on this?
TwoBytesCarley 27
Unless it’s an important person’s funeral or military, there generally aren’t police escorts. More often than not there will just be signs on their front or back window stating Funeral Procession (the funeral home hands the signs out to any family who is driving their own vehicle along with the hearse to the cemetery) as well as the vehicles having their headlights on.
AstroTurf Matador 8
Not true. When I used to do delivery, I came across a lot of funeral processions. There was always multiple police escorts. Having signs and your headlights on doesn't help when you go through a red light. The cross traffic will not see this. That's the main reason for the police escort. They block the cross traffic at the stop lights so the procession can proceed safely.
TwoBytesCarley 27
I WORK at a funeral home. Maybe it’s different where you live however across Canada, we do not have police escorts unless it is an important person’s death or military.
ojoRojo 27
How many funeral processions are you encountering that this is such a major issue for you?
Taurus_ChicKa 37
A lot of funeral processions have police escorts, but even if they don't, the hearse should be a dead giveaway. Pardon the pun.