Stacey makes a new friend at school and invites her home for
the first time. Stacey excuses herself to fetch her Mom and
introduce her new friend. As her friend is standing in the living
room, she picks up an attractive vase next to the fireplace.
When Stacey returns with her mother, her friend is staring
curiously into the vase. "Oh, those are my father's ashes,"
Stacey informs her new friend. However, this startles her so
that she drops the vase with a -- ashes and broken
vase scattering all around.
After turning three shades of red she stammers out, "Oh, no...
I'm, oh!... I, can't... didn't mean to.."
"It's OK dear," the mother says. "The vase was just from Woolworths"
The new friend catches her breath enough to say, "But... but
your husband's ashes..."
"Well," the mother says, "looks like he'll just have to get off
his lazy butt and get the ashtray from the kitchen from now on.