Borrow Your Aunt's Casket
6:55A caller says a newly deceased woman needs an oversized casket and asks her niece to lend the casket already holding her aunt, effectively demanding an exhumation. The niece refuses angrily before Tommy reveals her sister Sheila's prank.
Transcript
125 linesUm, are you the niece of of uh uh the I think it's Ain't Ain't is Ain't your aunt?
Yes.
Okay, and you're you're now your aunt passed away how many how many years ago your aunt passed?
It was about five years ago.
Okay.
Listen, we I'm over here at the funeral home.
Uh my my my sister just passed away.
And uh uh I they gave me your phone number.
Did you guys we we're going through a little bit of a situation here?
Did you guys aunt have you know y your aunt was a heavy set woman, is that right?
Yes, she was.
Okay.
Now they had to d did they have to put her in a in a did they have a bill of a special casket for her?
Uh yeah.
Okay.
That's what we're kind of going through with my sister.
We ordered a um a special casket for for for my sister.
And uh I I'm assuming this is the same thing that you guys went through.
I called several of her her children, but I wasn't able to get in touch with anybody, but the the funeral home actually had your name on file as well.
So they gave me your number where I would be able to talk to you.
Is is that is that okay?
Yeah, that's okay.
You can speak to me, but you know, what seems to be the problem?
Well, listen, uh we we the the the the funeral is actually in two days.
Okay.
And we ordered one of those special caskets, but it doesn't look like it's gonna be in for another week.
So, you know, it's almost like we're gonna we're gonna we're not gonna have a casket for her um, you know, for the funeral.
And you know, the like I said, the funeral home told us about, you know, that you guys were the last ones that ordered a a casket of that size, and you know, me and the uh the rest of the family has been, you know, we've been trying to figure out what to do and what to do.
Do you think it's any way possible we can borrow the casket that your aim is in, and then when the casket comes in that we ordered, we can put her in that casket.
And put her back down to rest like she's always been.
Do you think that's what?
Excuse me?
Hello?
Hello?
Excuse me, could you repeat yourself?
What exactly are you asking me?
Well, what I'm saying is, d do you think we can borrow your ain't casket?
Because you know, the funeral is in two days and the casket is not gonna be in order for us to be able to bury her in a in a casket for the you know, to accommodate her size.
That's what I'm asking.
What kind of is this you're talking about?
First of all, who is this?
Okay, oh no, my name is Larry.
Uh like I say, my name is Larry.
I got you I got you guys, like I say, I tried to call some of her kids, but nobody ever picked up when I called.
Okay, well, they said she had uh her niece's number on file too.
You you are her niece, Vicky, right?
Yes, I am.
Okay.
Well th that's what I'm saying.
Do you think that maybe you can talk to the children and see if we can maybe use that particular casket?
Okay, wait a minute.
What the f you talking about?
This some first of all, who who is this?
You you gotta be losing your f mind if you think I'm gonna let you dig up my 80 for just to bury your own.
Yeah, but I understand where you come from, but what I'm trying to say is that we don't have a casket big enough and they was they they let us know that you guys were the last ones that had a a casket that you know what they gotta do with us.
That's your supposed to figure it out.
Have you lost your f no, no?
Well, okay, first of all, what I'm trying to do is this.
The family been grieving pretty hard, and I just wanted to make sure that the funeral would be right.
And it ain't gonna be right if we don't have that being
my family gonna feel digging my 80 up.
You lost your bat, don't call me with this b who is the f the funeral home that gave you my number to ask me to use the casket so you can bury your sister.
Who is the name of that person?
I can't remember, but it w it was it was the guy the funeral director let me know that you guys had went through a situation Where you had to bury your your your your aunt.
Like I said, I tried to call.
What's your name again?
My name is Larry.
Okay, Larry, this is this is a stupid.
I don't know what to give you my phone number to call me asking.
You just dumb.
Can you believe the s they call here asking me to can they dig up and so they can bury their sister?
It's not fault that his sister don't have a casket.
Hello?
No, no.
What kind of I understand your fault?
No, I understand it's not your fault.
What I'm trying to say is would y'all show some sympathy and some love for what me and my family going through because we don't have a casket.
Like I say, my sister, my sister was a was, you know, with a if the heavens for the hemisphere wall.
That's all sound good.
You know, my condolences go out to you and your family.
You know, I'm trying to be as reserved as I can with this whole situation.
But do you understand what kind of stupid you're asking me right now to actually dig up my aunt who is already who's been in the ground for five years to bury your sister?
Okay, but let me ask me, let me ask you this role.
Like this.
What the f what kind of stupid for you to say to me?
Are you stupid?
What kind of you smoking?
Are you smoking crack?
We don't know she not wild no more.
First of all, you know what?
I I first of all I appreciate you trying to work with me, but I want to say this.
You you don't even have the authority to make that decision.
If you give me one of the numbers to one of your cousins,
I was really trying to be nice and be calm.
But guess what?
We not doing this stupid.
I'm trying to be nice to you and tell and try to help you out, but no, you want me to get ignorant and act stupid with you.
I was trying to be nice and sympathetic, but we not doing it.
I'm not giving you the number.
I got the authority to tell you right now, no.
We're not digging her up so you can bury your sister.
Figure it out.
Okay, so so so.
So that's just it.
I can't talk to now one of them.
That's it.
No, you ain't talking to nobody.
You talking to me, okay.
I got I got I got something else I need to tell you though.
I need I need to tell you something else.
Or you listen to tell me.
I want to tell you this.
This is nephew Tommy from the Steve Alvin Morning Show.
Vicky, your sister Sheila got me to prank phone call you.
Hold up.
Who is this again?
Your sister Sheila got me to prank phone call you.
Oh
yeah.
You got me over here all worked up.
I I got I'ma keep she played too much.
She ain't got to do.
I got one more thing to ask you, baby.
What is the baddest, and I mean the baddest radio show in the land.
Steve Harvey Morning Show.