Nothing says "Happy Mother's Day" like.....
I bought a 'pre-need' funeral package for my mother. She didn't mind
I bought a pre-need funeral package for my mother, Julia, when she fell and broke her neck in 2000. She had Parkinson's disease. The pre-need package was $11,100. The funeral director sent my mother a thank you note. She called me: I just got a bill for my funeral, son. Mom, I did the pre-planning because I didnt want to go through what I did with Dad last-minute shopping, I said.
When I called the funeral-home director to complain, he said, I feel horrible, absolutely horrible. His secretary had messed up, he said. Im so sorry about Mother," he said.
Dont mother me. Shes my mother, not yours. I was easy to rile.
My mom, on the other hand, was hard to rile, always flexible. She joked about the funeral-home call for a couple of weeks. No big deal. Her go-to phrase was dont make a scene.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-stratton-mothers-day-funeral-20170514-story.html