Uncollected Ashes

Ambiguity about ashes...

Potomnik: I’ll pick up the urn for Walter Wiczelaw tomorrow.

Tòtka: Which Walter is that? Walter K. or Walter P?

Potomnik: You have an urn for Walter P. Wiczelaw? He died in 1976.

Tòtka: Yes. We’ve been waiting for his family to pick it up.

Potomnik: For 45 years? His ashes were supposed to have been scattered.

Tòtka: They were never collected.

Potomnik: Well, his children have all died, we are the grandchildren and it would be nice to inter his ashes in a grave.

Tòtka: That’s reasonable. Then you can have somewhere to visit him.

Potomnik: Hmm, maybe two Walter Wiczelaws in the same graveyard. Uncle and nephew. 

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Voice-over

So you can request to have your ashes scattered but rellies forget and eventually their descendants want to park you in a grave anyway so they can come and chat with you. Forty-five years of waiting to be picked up and then no rest after you are entombed.