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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
News People are just too damned sensitive
Posted By Cheris Hodges on Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:54 PM
You know the old saying, the only thing sure in life is death and taxes?
Well, in South Carolina it seems the people want to bury their heads in the sand about death. Their heads are buried so damned deep that a man was kicked out of a flea market for selling hand made caskets. Caskets that are thousands of dollars cheaper than the ones funeral homes sell.
According to The Charlotte Observer, Merritt Eggleston was asked to leave Trader Marc's, a new flea market in Fort Mill.
When the market’s owner, J.R. Pettus, noticed Eggleston was selling caskets, he pulled the plug on the booth.“We studied a lot of flea markets before we opened this one and we didn’t see anyone selling caskets at any other flea market,” Pettus said.
Eggleston, who builds caskets in the back yard of his Rock Hill home, said he was approached by several interested people while manning his booth at the flea market.
Sure the market owners gave Eggleston his money back -- actually twice what he paid for the booth rent. But the reason the owners offered for booting his was just plain stupid.
Shoppers at the market had complained, Pettus said, adding that the sight of caskets forces onlookers to think about death.“It is a difficult subject,” he said. “We’re all going to die. We just don’t want to be promoting it at the market.”
We're all going to die and if people who shop at this flea market can't handle that fact, then they should lock themselves in the house, turn off all the lights and crawl into a ball. Stop living so that you don't have to worry about dying.
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