Typical Men Before We Had A GPS

Anyone who has ever delivered a eulogy or performed a song at a funeral will understand this. 

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Time is a River........ Quite moving

   

Time is like a river.You cannot touch the water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass again. So enjoy every moment of life. As a bagpiper, I play many gigs. Recently I was asked by a funeral director to play at a graveside service for a homeless man. He had no family or friends, so the service was to be at a pauper's cemetery in the backwoods country of West Virginia. 

   

As I was not too familiar with those backwoods, I got lost and being a typical man, I didn't stop for directions. I finally arrived an hour late and saw the funeral personal had evidently gone and the hearse was nowhere in sight. There were only the diggers and the local guys left and they were eating their lunch. I felt badly and apologized to the men for being late. 

   

I went to the side of the grave and looked down and the vault lid was already in place. I didn't know what else to do, so I started to play my bagpipes. 

   

The workers put down their lunches and began to gather around. 

   

I played out my heart and soul for this man with no family and friends.  I played like I've never played before for this homeless man.

   

And as I played "Amazing Grace", the workers began to weep. They wept, I wept, we all wept together. When I finished, I packed up my bagpipes and started for my car. Though my head was hung low, my heart was full. 

   

As I opened the door to my car, I heard one of the workers say, "I have never seen nothing like that before and I've been putting in septic tanks for 20 years." 

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Apparently I'm still lost....it's a man thing. 

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