04-23-2010, 12:19 AM | #81 |
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A topic that I have intimate familiarity with - now just over two years to the day...
I lost my friend Amanda in a single vehicle (i.e. motorcycle) wreck. She was riding on the back of someone's bike - getting a ride home from work, and the details are not really known, but she died. Her father and mother, while not "anti-motorcycle" were not really crazy about them or her riding on one. I knew this, yet I also knew Amanda's thoughts on how to live your life. I took my truck to the funeral (I was giving a ride to another of Amanda's friends), but rode to the 'after party'. Her husband rides, and for the first time that day, when he saw me ride up - he smiled. I'm told that before I got there, that the gathering was maudlin in tone - after I rode up and stayed a while, it turned into the sort of gathering that Amanda would have insisted on. Live life as if every day was your last - some day you'll be right. I knew that Amanda would have wanted me to ride, and for Brad to keep on riding as well. A week after she passed, Brad climbed back on his bike for the first time, and rode with me to get dinner on my birthday. I live so that I can ride. I ride so that I can live. "Love Much, Laugh Often". Yes Amanda, I obey.
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04-24-2010, 09:27 PM | #82 |
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Great F'in post Josh!!
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04-24-2010, 10:15 PM | #83 | |
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04-25-2010, 05:32 AM | #84 |
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Calling hours?
Is tt some wierd term for public viewing? |
04-25-2010, 07:38 AM | #85 |
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Older term for the wake/prayer service/viewing. Generally done the day prior to the funeral.
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04-25-2010, 10:04 AM | #86 |
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Not sure about it being a weird term, it's what we say in this area. But yes, it is more or less public viewing.
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04-25-2010, 10:23 AM | #87 |
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04-25-2010, 10:31 AM | #88 |
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Reading back through... "Bike is my only transport" thing is a BS excuse. What, you wouldn't know anyone else going to the funeral? And let's say you didn't... You wouldn't know anyone else that could drive you there? Are there no taxi cabs in your town?
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04-25-2010, 01:36 PM | #89 |
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If the family doesn't want me to ride I wont. A funeral is about respect for the family, not about making a statement.
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04-25-2010, 04:45 PM | #90 |
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So I guess you are old and wierd.
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