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The Coffin Is Too Big For The Hole

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“Yeah, can you imagine ? Can you imagine that the coffin of your grandfather cannot get into the whole specially dug for him on the day of his funeral ? And in front of two hundred people ?

We were speechless. We were literally stunned. We just stood there and looked at each other. Nobody said a word. It must have been the funniest thing that ever happened in the entire funeral history of mankind.

You invested so much time and money and energy and emotions in a grand funeral that two hundred people had come to see and what happens ? The coffin won’t get into the grave because the hole was too small - or the coffin was too big. Anyway, they didn’t fit. They didn’t fit !

So we stood there. We looked at the coffin. We looked at the hole. We looked at each other. All the crying suddenly stopped. But no one dared to laugh. Mind you, if you were a member of the family, how can you laugh ?”

~ Kuo Pao Kun, 1983