- Where you off to ma?
- A funeral love
- Who died?
- Mr. McBride from number nine
- Moany McBride? What did he die of?
- He died of a Tuesday
- Haha, funny ma
- Ah stop that’s awful, de poor aul skin
- He was a moany aul fucker ma
- I know he was
- So why are you goin’ to his funeral?
- Out of respect love
- Respect me hole. You always told us you have to earn respect
- I know I did. Ye do
- Well he never respected anyone, he was a narky fucker
- Ah he was an old man
- He wasn’t always old. He never gave us back our ball when it went into his garden
- Well youse were always annoyin’ him. I know you used to kick it over his wall on purpose
- D’ye tink he would’ve gone to your funeral ma?
- Yeah, I tink he would
- Even though he probably didn’t like you either?
- Ye, it’s what people do isn’t it?
- Well, don’t expect me to go
- Sure you don’t even go to mass of a Sunday
- Neither do you
- Well I went for long enough, and you mind your manners ye pup
- I wonder if my footballs are still in his garden
- Stay out of his garden
- Dat’s what he always said ‘Gerroua me garden and gerroff me wall’
- Ah God love de aul skin, sure all he had was his garden
- …and my footballs ma
- Get over de footballs will ye. Look I’m goin’. I don’t want to be late
- Light a few candles for me sins ma
- I wouldn’t want to set de church on fire love. I’ll say a prayer for ye
- Respect ma…Respect
Diary of a Dublin Housewife 
HaHa, I nearly choked on my tea! You have such a way with words, and the expressions you use, crack me up. Hilarious post 🙂
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I always thought it odd people didn’t want to speak ill of the dead when they were roasting them the day before!
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I’m just afraid dey’ll come back and haunt me!! haha
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It’s good to treat the dead with respect, they can no longer stand up and defend themselves and it’s wrong to kick someone who cannot defend himself.
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Ah sure god love him, he was to be pitied more than anything
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Still, no reason not to fetch the footballs back, now that he’s gone. I mean, they’ll have to go sometime, won’t they? Not like he used them for planters.
I’m dreadful at funerals, but good at the practical.
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I was gutting myself all through the post! But, its so true that we often go to funerals of people to pay our respects when we may not necessary have liked or got on with the person, but is societies expectation of us. I would definitely be going over the wall to his garden to get my footballs back!
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Ah God love him, sure he didn’t have much family left, poor sod. De lads are keeping a look out for their balls..haha
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Don’t think for a minute that he wont have a look over the wall…haha
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