From an Underground Car Park to the Crematory
By M.-L.
@MALUSE (69416)
Germany
April 26, 2017 1:32pm CST
This morning I went to an eye-specialist. The doctor's office is on the third floor of a high-rise building. It stands opposite the train station. Between it and the train station is a large square which has just become an enormous building site because an underground car park is being built there.
When I came into the waiting-room, I went to the window to look down and see what was going on and how far the work had already progressed. A woman joined me. I said to her that I thought it was a good idea to build the underground car park because the area is always too full of cars.
She became a bit excited and exclaimed, "They (Who? I guess she meant the town council, the mayor and everone else responsible for decisions concerning the town) have money for *this*!". She pulled a face and nearly spat the words. "Instead of doing something for the refurbishment of the crematory."
I must say that I'm usuall quick at repartee but this beat me. How on earth did the woman get from an undergound car park to the crematory? Maybe the hole in the ground initiated the train of thoughts? Digging --> dying -- graveyard -- crematory?
I was then called to be examined. Before I left I told the doctor and her assistant who happened to stand at the door about this conversation. We had a good giggle together.
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16 responses
@spiderdust (14741)
• San Jose, California
27 Apr 17
Still, it seems like a random thing to just rant at a stranger. I think would have been speechless in your situation too.
Actually, I think the term "crematorium" is more common in the UK.
Money to burn, I can see that logic!
@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
26 Apr 17
I don't understand why she would want the crematory refurbished unless I misunderstand what one is. How do you refurbish what is basically a furnace? Or does she want the building to look prettier? That was a pretty bizarre train of thought but, as we say here, it takes all kinds to make up a world! 
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@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
26 Apr 17
@MALUSE Wow, I would guess that it needs a bit of work! Still, taking care of the living is a bit more important than attending the empty husks of those who have departed.
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@MALUSE (69416)
• Germany
27 Apr 17
@LadyDuck Indeed? I haven't met people like that. I only know people who always want to talk about diseases. The topic may occupy your mother's mind because she's already very old. It may not be macabre for her but certainly is for the younger generation.
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@Nawsheen (28644)
• Mauritius
27 Apr 17
I am just wondering what she was thinking when you told her about the car park. There is so much difference between car park and crematory. Maybe for her refurbishment of the crematory seemed to be a better idea and i would also like to know why she thought like that
@jstory07 (134185)
• Roseburg, Oregon
27 Apr 17
Sometimes people's minds wonder from thing to thing. She knew what she was talking about and that was all that mattered.
@Tampa_girl7 (48860)
• United States
28 Apr 17
I guess her brain is just programmed differently than others
@boiboing (13153)
• Northampton, England
27 Apr 17
I'm not sure if you mean cemetery or crematorium but I don't know the word crematory.
@JudyEv (325105)
• Rockingham, Australia
28 Apr 17
Something obviously led the woman's mind along this devious path.
@CRK109 (14558)
• United States
27 Apr 17
It's interesting how people's minds work. I often have conversations like that with my nephew. I will be talking about something and suddenly he will interject with a completely different subject, as if we'd been talking about that for hours! lol
@FayeHazel (40248)
• United States
27 Apr 17
Oh dear how morbid. At least it made an interesting story
@allknowing (130067)
• India
27 Apr 17
Anything can trigger thoughts. Don't we often say 'That reminds me........."?
