My husband just came home and I showed the video to him. He burst out laughing too. My daughter will probably have the same reaction. She has a great sense of humor and people skills.

I agree with you about Johnny one-notes who say you have to be uniformly happy, but for me it’s not that simple.

Your talk of funerals reminds me of my mother’s. I was exhausted. I had helped nurse her while she died and had stayed up most of the night writing a eulogy for her. When she realized she was deathly sick she asked me to write her obituary and told me what she wanted me to include. She also told me what kind of funeral she wanted and asked me to give a eulogy at her funeral.

It was a Catholic funeral and we the family were sitting in the front row. We didn’t know when to stand or kneel, so we figured we would just take our cue from my sister, who’s Catholic. But she just sat there as people behind us stood and knelt at the appropriate times. I figured as long as we all did the same thing it was all right. But finally my husband couldn’t take it any more and said, “I don’t care what you do, but everyone else is standing, so I’m standing too.” He stood up and the rest of us popped up too, not in unison but more like popcorn. It cracked me up and I laughed through the tears, knowing full well that my mother would have been laughing too. It was her kind of humor.