Cemetery Etiquette Tips: Please Think Edition
Since the weather is again warm and the sun it out, flowers are blooming, the local population is returning to the cemeteries to enjoy what we all do.
But sometimes, some people get just a little carried away. This Please Think Edition is for you people, but with a tongue in cheek grain of salt smile as you say it attitude. 
… Mostly.
#1. I realize cemeteries are interesting and something we all do (I think those who aren’t regulars do this more) is look at dates. Seeing the dates gives us a much more important reference than even their name, since we can gauge by the events in what social and world climate they lived in. That’s what kick starts the gears of our imagination!
But please, please don’t run from marker to marker, loudly calling out the dates. We can all read for ourselves, I promise. Cemeteries are a place to go for me to find quiet. If I wanted to see grown men running around and yelling, I would actually enjoy watching sports and do that instead.
#2. Don’t bring your beer into the cemetery. I try my hardest not to judge others, but when I see you walking around with Pabst Blue Ribbon in your hand letting your dog poop infront of grave stones… Well, I fail at that whole not judging thing. Then I feel bad. So please, don’t do it.
#3. If your dog relieves herself, please, don’t leave it so that I’ll step in it. Sometimes I even lay down to get low shots of short headstones. That’s bad enough, but if my camera becomes soiled I will find your vehicle and do as your dog did there.
#4. Please don’t smoke in the cemetery! Being a former smoker myself, I’m all about freedom and doing what you want. I don’t even mind the second hand smoke all that much. But people, we live in OREGON. Don’t you know this state burns down every year? I’d rather smell fresh air than a cigarette, but I’d rather not smell a new forest fire at all. And yes, most of these cemeteries are buried in forests.
For that matter, I’d rather not run for my life from it either.
#5. And for God’s Sake, control your children!
Tags: cemetery etiquette, social behavior
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June 14, 2009 10:06 am
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