AlamoPA Mailing List: Fw: Bagpipes :)

[Sallie Carlson (wacsc11945]

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From: Robert Ahrenkiel <gp-bob11 [at] att.net>

Sent: Monday, June 26, 2017, 11:35:55 PM CDT

Subject: Fw: Bagpipes :)

BAGPIPES

Lay down what's bothering you, breath in the fresh air and LISTEN to this story.

  
Time is like a river. You cannot touch the water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass this way again. Enjoy every moment of life.

As a bagpiper, I play many gigs. Recently I was asked by a funeral director to play at a graveside service for a homeless man. He had no known family or friends, so the service was to be at a pauper's cemetery in the Nova Scotia back country.  As I was not familiar with the backwoods, I got lost and, being a typical man, I didn't stop for directions.

I finally arrived an hour late and saw the funeral guy had evidently gone for the hearse was nowhere in sight.  There were only the diggers and crew left, and they were eating lunch. I felt badly and apologized to the men for being late. I went to the side of the grave and looked down to see the vault lid was already in place.

 

I didn't know what else to do, so I started to play.  The workers put down their lunches and began to gather around. I played from my heart and soul for this man with no family and friends, like I've never played before, for this homeless man. And as I was playing "Amazing Grace", the workers began to weep. They wept, I wept, we all wept together. When I finished, I packed up my bagpipes and started for my car.

 

Though my head was hung low, my heart was full. As I opened the door to my car, I heard one of the workers say, "I never seen anything like that before, and I've been putting in septic tanks for twenty years."

Apparently, I'm still lost....

When you have stopped laughing be sure to forward this on to others who would enjoy a good story and rich humor.