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Had a late coffee this morning downtown and after an hour or so of K chatting with the locals we decided to have a cold beer before going home.
2 beers and a snack. My beer was alcohol free.
When we finished the first round the guy in the background here told the girl to bring us 2 more of what we were drinking and another plate of snacks.
The snacks!
The first plate was enough for breakfast and lunch. We were going to bring it home in a disposable bowl but more of K's friends stopped by so it got eaten.
And our benefactor? The local undertaker!
I know he's an acquaintance of K's but it was extremely generous of him to shout us all that.
Methinks he sees us as customers-soon-to-be and he'll make sure of it by feeding us lots of fat and alcohol. Ftoo ftoo ftoo. Begone, you evil eye.
He may bury us one day but hope it's not for many years yet.
He's a nice guy, arranges all the foreigners' funerals and any cremations which take place in Athens. He's got always got a smile and a joke. Not your grim, gloomy stereotype at all.
He has already buried a few in the extended family. That's a small community for you. Even the undertaker becomes part of the social circle.
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That is one mighty plate of snacks! It would feed me for a week!
ReplyDeleteOne beer and that first plate filled me up but..... if you're a local yokel that's just a drop in the stomach
DeleteAlways look after your customers, present or future.
ReplyDeleteAhh, but it won't be for us to decide when the time comes. We'll be long gone
DeleteHe sounds like a very generous man, no doubt in Summer a cold beer is going to be very refreshing here too
ReplyDeleteActually I forgot to ask K if it was payback. Even undertakers get broken washing machines. But I don't think so
DeleteHe is great at marketing lol
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately I had gone to many funerals in the past and have gotten to know the undertakers.
They started greeting me by name.
Oh well at least when my time comes I’ll be lovenly handled by friends
Yes, he's gay and he and his partner are known to be respectful in their dealings
DeleteThat's how it is in a small community. I just now thought about the fact that I also know my future undertaker.
ReplyDeleteAs marketing goes it has to be more welcome than a flyer pushed under the door. The death industry in UK is strange and in many ways like a dirty secret. You know what NZ is like - at least in small communities - just like the experience you describe in your post for Poros - friends, people you went to school with, lots of women these days too. One of my school friends became an undertaker straight our of school (strange thing to choose everyone said), and lots of firms would not take him on for being so young, but he persevered and is now 40+ years later definitely the most popular and most respected undertaker in our district.
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