But I bought it like that!

[Tria]

Yes sir, I opened up your phone and licked the dot! It was the only source of liquid I had available to me, and I ever so enjoy the possibility of electric current running through my veins.

Nine volt batteries are good for that too.... Fun fact about 3 people a year die from testing the batteries with their tongues.

[Buglady]

Once when I was a kid, I licked a frog.

Does that count?

I talked someone else into licking a slug... (the big "banana slug" kind from the West Coast. Turns out they really do make your tongue go numb. Which made me rather glad I hadn't tried it myself )

[trunks2k]

Not to mention the germs, bacteria, and all the infested crap in their phone.. *shudder*

TPH - I love that movie! How much for a thyroid search?

Don't you know what some people do with their phones? That's what the vibrate function is for I guess.

[Rapscallion]

I used to have women returning (or rather, attempting to return) communion dreses to us, dresses that are big, poufy and pure white. Usually, there was a huge chocolate ice cream stain right on the front.

This reminds me of a rather stunning tale from way back when on here, where a family returned a suit because it had ripped. It was only as they were on their way out that a colleague wandered over having seen the family, and he stared at the return.

"Did you refund them for that?" he asked aghast.

"Yes. Why?"

"They'd bought it for their father's funeral!"

Rapscallion

[wagegoth]

This reminds me of a rather stunning tale from way back when on here, where a family returned a suit because it had ripped.

"They'd bought it for their father's funeral!"

Rapscallion

Okay, so they used the suit on the corpse for the funeral and then returned it?

OMG!

[draggar]

"They'd bought it for their father's funeral!"

So he's buried naked?

[Bliss]

Well in my view naked burying is not so bad, since it's natural. In fact personally my death arragements would be if I could to be left naked in a forest or similar to be eaten by animals (give back) but I know nobody would deem my wishes legal, so I'm being cremated, and naked is ok.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Well in my view naked burying is not so bad, since it's natural. In fact personally my death arragements would be if I could to be left naked in a forest or similar to be eaten by animals (give back) but I know nobody would deem my wishes legal, so I'm being cremated, and naked is ok.

I guess that would make sense . . . we're all born naked, so why not leave out the same way?

As for creamation, one is creamated naked. I discovered this back in 2001 when my aunt died - she had requested cremation and it was done.

Basically, they put the body in a cardboard box (sometimes wood) and bake it in a large oven-like unit to a temp of 1800 farenheit. I hear the process takes several hours, then the ashes are sifted out and placed in a container (my aunt was put in a baggie and placed in a box) and given to the next of kin.

I really need to start watching more than National Geographic (or was that on the History Channel?)

[GayleShy]

I plan on donating my body to science, as that is the cheapest and best way (IMHO) to go. Besides, your body gets to do a lot of cool stuff that way.

[Enjis]

Well in my view naked burying is not so bad, since it's natural. In fact personally my death arragements would be if I could to be left naked in a forest or similar to be eaten by animals (give back) but I know nobody would deem my wishes legal, so I'm being cremated, and naked is ok.

In the Jewish tradition, everyone is wrapped in linen and buried in a closed casket ceremony. No need to buy expensive funeral clothes. It has something to do with everyone being the same at death, no pretence and such.

[Andara Bledin]

My brother was in the dead-people industry for a bit (he hauled bodies).

It turns out that (at least in California) you are required to buy a casket, which must be made by a licensed casket maker, to have a person cremated in. Then, when they get to the crematorium, they move the body to cheap cardboard/pressboard box and then reuse the casket. So, not only do they make you pay too much for something you don't really want, but then you don't even get what you paid for.

^-.-^

[volatile]

hahah so familiar sounding. i'm sure a bunch of you have had people return things and then they end up having a laundry list of missing items. what do they say when you confront them about the missing items?

"they never came with the box"

so pathetic.

[BookstoreEscapee]

I wanna be buried in jeans and t-shirt, socks and no shoes. If I'm gonna spend eternity in a box, I wanna be comfortable!

I do know that my mom wants a closed casket, and she wants balloons instead of flowers.

[megami]

when i've lived beyond my usefulness, i plan on jumping (or falling) out of a plane and go smush when i hit the ground. should be interesting...

but as for ridiculous returns, i had someone try to return a half-eaten cookie. he said that he didn't like it and it took eating half the cookie to figure that out.

[DesignFox]

This story reminds me a of a woman who tried to tell us the phone we sold her months ago must have been ruined when we sold it to her. (the moisture indicator was BRIGHT red).

Crazy lady:"You sell it to me that way!"

Co-worker:"Miss, that is IMPOSSIBLE, as all of our phones come straight from the manufacturer, and we MUST view the indicator when we put the SIM and Battery in it IN FRONT OF YOU the day you purchase it."

Crazy Lady:"Well, I never get phone wet. You give to me that way! You must replace! It will not work!"

Thankfully, my coworker got the speaker to work well enough to get her out the door...

You got your phone wet, you voided the warranty, you refused insurance when the phone was sold to you...Suck it up and pony up some dough!

Cell phones will lead to the fall of civilization...