Wrong Tombstone
6:21A funeral home owner calls about a tombstone with the wrong name and date, and the angry relative threatens to dig up bodies.
Transcript
148 linesHey man, I got a problem.
We got a problem with the still hall more.
Let me ask y'all something.
Look, John didn't mess around and put the wrong name on my anti tombstone as well as the date.
And we got a problem we gotta get rectified, man.
Y'all got all the time.
Hold on, man.
Calm down.
First of all, what is your name?
My name is Reggie, man.
But y'all, y'all, I I I can't understand a funeral making these kinds of mistakes.
You know, that don't make no sense.
How long have y'all even been in the business to be doing something like this?
Sir, this is a family business.
We've been doing this 40 plus years.
Why are you all making mistakes like this, man?
What what what's the problem?
What's the mistake?
What mistake you think we made?
Okay, look, man.
We buried my annie two weeks ago.
Uh-huh.
Her name is Rosetta B.
Okay.
All right.
She was born June the 8th, 1948.
Y'all got August the 6th, 1940.
Y'all got the dates mixed up.
And y'all got her name mixed up.
And what we ain't finna do is have my Annie uh resting in peace with the wrong stuff on her tombstone.
That don't make no success, man.
Calm down.
Well, you keep yelling at me.
I can't, there's no way I can help you if you're getting at me.
Now I need to.
Well, fix the problem then, man.
I can check the paperwork.
I can check the paperwork and see what the problem is.
Now, if you gave me the wrong information, your family gave me the wrong information, then we just put down what we were given.
And if we gotta change something, we'll change it, but it's gonna cost you some more money.
We're not paying another damn damn to that funeral.
Not another damn damn.
The stuff's gonna get changed on this damn tombstone, then we're not paying for nothing.
I'm gonna tell you this here.
I'm just adding I'm saying we can help you out.
I can help you.
But if you gave me the wrong information, that's only you.
I didn't do that.
That's only you.
We didn't give you the wrong information.
Now I'm gonna tell you this right here.
You look what is your name?
What is your name?
My name is Kendrick.
Okay, Kinsbick.
Let me tell you something.
If this don't get changed, by the night, me and some of my cousins are finna come out there and start digging up bodies.
Oh, yeah, I'm gonna go.
Y'all ain't not coming over here and digging up nothing.
Y'all, this is my clear, you will disrespect my family and come over here and you're gonna dig up what?
We're gonna dig up some bodies if y'all don't come if y'all if y'all don't get them rectified on my anti tombstone.
It's not gonna be none of that.
I'm not having you coming over here.
We're gonna fix the problem.
I'm gonna check the paperwork, and I can get back to you.
That's what I can do, but you ain't digging up nothing.
If y'all ain't fixed this thing on my anti tombstone, bodies in it, me and my cousin is coming out there digging up some of them damn dead bodies until y'all get this damn thing fixed.
Ain't gonna be nobody coming over there and saying, okay, I'm not gonna go.
Wait, wait, wait, wait a minute.
Listen, hold on, see?
What?
Now I'm getting excited too.
Man, let me just talk to you like a man.
Listen, what I'm saying to you is that the family filled out the paperwork, puts the name and the birth date on there.
If it is incorrect, Has to be fixed.
I have to call the man out here to fix it.
And that's gonna cost some money.
I have to pay him.
All I'm saying is, if that is the case, if the paperwork is incorrect, it's not on us, and I'm gonna have to charge you a little extra money just so I can get it taken care of.
I'm not gonna get charged, no, no.
We ain't got no more money, man.
We ain't got no more money.
Y'all charge uncle arm and a leg to bear my handy.
We ain't got no more.
Let me tell you, I'm gonna tell you one more time, Mr.
Kendrick.
If I don't see a channel, I'm coming out there this evening to look at my anti tombstone.
I'm coming out there.
Now, if the date and the name ain't fixed, I promise you so help me.
I'm finna start digging up by it, and if your ass is out there, I'ma put you in one of them holes behind and dug up.
I tell you what, you're not gonna put me in no hole, man.
I like I say, I try to I'm trying to talk to you and tell you what the deal is.
We'll get this fixed.
Ain't nobody coming out here and digging up nothing.
I call somebody.
I bet you that I bet you I'm digging up a hole and I'll put your in it if you don't fix my anti tombstone.
Then we both be going in the damn hole.
That's what's gonna happen.
Oh then we both going in there then.
Because somebody ought to fix mess around and put the wrong thing.
You ought to put the y'all to spend my hand wrong and everything.
All of that.
I don't even answer the damn phone.
My uncle get excited.
Uh resin.
Me and you yelling at each other, we mean.
We don't do this.
Yelling at each other is not gonna fix the problem.
I'm a s I still have to do a step here.
I have to look at this paperwork.
So when is you gonna look at it then?
You keep yelling at me I don't even have time to go over this paperwork every time I get ready to look at something, you yelling in my head.
Okay, well, let me say this to you one more time.
I'm coming, matter of fact, I'm finna come out there right now.
That's what I'm finna do.
You know what we're gonna come on then.
If I try to talk nice to your w and tell you what the f do, I told you that this is a family business, and you disrespect me.
Let them f you you come out here, you ain't no cousin.
We both go to every day.
That's what I'm trying to tell you right now.
Listen,
you need to you need to know that my f is on my way.
Because I guarantee you, y'all gonna tell you.
I could bring your f in.
Bring your you in your cousin.
I'll be a big seven hold out this day.
I bet you when they get ready to spell Kendrick on the tombstone, I bet you they won't spell that room.
Oh, but be a come on, f you ain't your cousin.
Well, I got I got something else I need to tell you.
What the f else you got to say, I said you listen to me, Kendrick.
What the f you have to say, Reggie?
I got to say this.
This is Mr.
Tommy.
You just got pranked by your secretary with
No
You.
You tell me.
I'm about
to get me, man.
You got me, man.
Man, I won't even suppose to be in here today.
I knew something was funny.
Oh man, you alright now?
Yeah, you got me, but I was gonna do the hole for your f today, trying to tell you.
All right, hey man, I gotta ask you one more thing.
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