After effects of being to a funeral

Funny, when the soul departs the flesh, it is called a BODY in urban words or Cadaver in medical terms! We forget the fact it was a person just before where they are now, if only they could hear and see things around after their own death, they'd wish to die all over again!

Scene 1 - Just outside funeral service

Our task here is to shift body to places, once when the body arrives from mortuary, I've got to take it up the stairs to home and later, after the rituals are done with get it back to the cremation van.

Scene 2 - Tea stall around the block

G: Seems like India won a silver in Olympics, great news rite!

B: (thinks to himself - duh, it was like 15 hours back - why are we speaking about dead news!) Wow, great news yaar

Some X (who's here for the funeral, smoking black cigar) - Aiyoo rama !!!

Scene 3 - Mortuary Van

Driver: What you paid was for the paper work, we are doing things with interest for the departed souls, you should be respecting that and tip us good!

Relative: No way am paying extra bucks, we will go by the terms we came into earlier, even before paper work started out!

Scene 4 - someone over phone

When are you planning to come Iyer Ji, it's already half past 10, we were supposed to start our rituals about an hour back

(hangs up as he sees the Iyervaal's TVS Scooty coming to a hollering stop)

Iyer 2: Sorry Mama, got into the traffic

Rel: What ji, it's Saturday, since when are we strangled in Saturday's jam

Iyer 1: Okay Okay, we already delayed, lets light up fire before the Rahu Kalam

Scene 5 - Among the gathered relatives

A: Hey, these are the one I mentioned earlier - the in-laws.

B: Oh, good, I thought they wouldn't show up

A: of course they would, they are the in laws!!! And by the way did you notice the one along with her hair cropped - a pop cutting or something…

Scene 6 - Close circle of the deceased

This should not have happened, this is a dream, I was supposed to take you to over a walk this Sunday. Come on, up now, lets prepond it, how about we go for that walk today instead of tomorrow.. Come on now, get up, please…

Scene 7 - Not so close to the deceased

Any idea how long it might take?

P.S. - Random events from different funerals I've been to, are put together. Though they vary from each one of them, they still seem to be correlated ...

Thenappan..,