I can't believe I forgot this one!
1. The Divorce Notices in the Paper. I get that divorces are public record, but do they really need to list them in the paper. I say just have them on file and available to the public at the courthouse or some other municipal location. It is really nobodies business.
2. People Who Read the Divorce Section. Seriously? Who the Hell does that? I almost get the people who read the obituaries; old people keeping up with their peers, and I understand that there is a supposed art to the writing of them. But why do people read the divorce section? It is just a list of couples and dates. Are the readers trolling for singles? I am guessing that the recently divorced are not prime catches at the moment. Recently someone told me that they had read that my OBGYN was getting a divorce from her husband and partner. So sad, but none of my business. I have spent far more time then necessary speculating on how that was affecting their working relationship, (although in my defense I would have less time to spend thinking about it if I were seen more promptly at appointments.) Things must be fairly good since they both worked on my C-section as they did with Mae, (although again the topic crossed my mind while I was on the table and it was a bit of a bummer during a really happy moment. Luckily they couldn't tell I was thinking about their divorce since, as you will remember, I was giggling during the whole procedure.) But really people stop reading the divorce section, it is none of your business, if it were you most likely would have found out some other way.
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Things That Must Go XV.II
Posted by Emily Larkin at 7:34 PM
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word! As far as the obituary thing goes, funny story: when my grandpa died, he was buried in a teeny tiny town in southern new mexico. it was highly inconvenient for ANYone to get there, but that was where their plots were, and where they had already buried some family members, so of course, that is where we went. The funny part is that several people from the town showed up! Not people from church or anything, just random citizens old and young, that saw that said they there was a funeral that day for someone who served in WWII so they came to pay their respects to the family of a good man. It could just be that the town has cool people though, because all of the people in the streets stopped and took off their hats or put their hands over their hearts when the car procession headed down the main street to the cemetary. Awesomeness. I guess there is a benefit to having a well written obituary. Who knew?
But publishing divorces is just a waste of paper. Anyone that needs to know about someone's divorce will find out eventually when the people change their facebook statuses. Cuz it isn't "news" if it isn't on facebook, right? ;)
I must be naive (or too confined to the internet)...I had no idea there was a divorce section. When my grandpa died really recently, the obituary was cool because they usually come with online guest books now, so some people who couldn't come to the funeral wrote nice memories of him. And I wanted to read or hear everything about him.
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