Posted on 08/07/2007 4:28:04 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
ELMIRA, N.Y. — A New York state woman who was quick with the bargains at her rummage sale mistakenly accepted 50 cents for a ceramic turtle with the ashes of her husband's previous wife inside.
Now, Anita Lewis is desperately searching for the buyer who said she planned to use the urn as a cookie jar.
Ms. Lewis said she hauled items into her yard early Saturday while her husband slept.
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
Mistakenly?
You leave these things around you’re just asking for an overzealous maid and her vacuum, a stray cigarette in search of an ashtray, or a yard sale accident. That’s why I specified in my will after cremation, my ashes be thrown in the face of my ex.
I think someone has “anger” issues, LOL!
These things happen. I once “inadvertently” set fire to pictures of my husband’s ex girlfriends. Tragic accident.
You cannot make this stuff up! Oh my!
LOL!
He kept the exes ashes in a Turtle. Wonder what Freud would say.
” Finally, the turtle with prudence gives us the image of the sober, stolid, phlegmatic, careful man, who may in fact be patiently enduring a party for the sake of his wife, who simply wants to be “seen” and make a good appearance, and who consequently instructs her husband how to behave, even though he actually “behaves” very little.”
http://www.friesian.com/gender.htm
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