[SOC] Amazing grace

[Michael Coslo]

Well played, sir, well played.

I was busy thinking ""hy's this guy telling us that downer post on this list
of all places."  You got me hook, line and stinker.

    - Mike -


On 8/23/10 11:30 AM, "Bob Nielsen" <n7xy at clearwire.net> wrote:

> 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 Kentucky back country.
> As I was not familiar with the 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 guy had evidently gone and the hearse was nowhere in sight. There were
> only the diggers and crew left and they were eating 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.
> 
> 
> 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 hung low, my heart was full. As I opened the door to my car, I
> heard one of the workers say, "I never seen nothing like that before and I've
> been putting in septic tanks for twenty years."
>  
> 
>     Apparently I'm still lost....
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