Not so much a question, more of thought.
So last Wednesday our mother lost her struggle with pancreatic cancer, 81, today we said goodbye, a small service.
My Patents owned Taxis, in Ballina & Maclean. They were apart of the main streets, they participated in the Maclean Cane Haven't Festival for years. The hearse that carried my mother, we had organised to sit on the Taxi Rank, before it's journey to the lawn Cemetery.
We gathered at the Rank, dressed in Christmas atirer, Mum loved Christmas. Many of the local shop owners who know my parents, attended.
Some of the comments from passers-bys, What's a hearse doing parked on the rank. Why are you dress for Christmas, it's passed.
I didn't return a comment.
Then as we followed the hearse to the Cemetery, the vehicles that never gave way to the precession, pushed in, then blow their horns because we were driving slow.
Have people lost respect?
I was taught, when a funeral precession passed, You stopped, allowed right of way.
If you were wearing a hat/cap, you took it off, dropped your head.
Why don't people have that respect these days.
I have also witnessed this when a RFS member is being escorted, followed be RFS trucks, Lights Flashing.
Motorists push in.
You don't use magic to disappear, ya use a 4x4 & Swag.
