Tuesday – Preparing For a 48 Hour Day

Today on my drive into work, I was thinking about the two day's next month I will be working in a funeral home. A real, honest-to-goodness funeral home, with dead bodies and everything. It is for a program The Corporation offers calls "A Day in The Life," where people from the corporate office are sent out to experience how business is handled at our service locations. They call it this despite the fact that it takes 2 days.

I'm only doing this because my boss volunteered me, but I think it will be interesting. At the orientation, I was told that on the first day they will interview me and ask parts of the industry what I am interested in observing, and make sure that I am not exposed to anything that will "make me uncomfortable."

"Like a dead body?" my husband said when I told him, "Because that would make me uncomfortable. And, let's see, what else? Oh, how about a dead body?" He looked genuinely freaked out, and which I found strange since he's not going to be the one doing this for his job.

"It's not about what makes you uncomfortable," I told him, "It's about what makes me uncomfortable. Dead people don't bother me so much. Mostly, they just lie there and mind their own business."

( If I worked for the McDonald's corporation, I suppose I'd be flipping burgers for two days, instead. )