So some companies might wonder why their breakfast doesn't attract people in the morning....

Here's a hint, have your hashbrowns and your coffee ready at 10 am in the morning.

So a few of us headed to subway for breakfast before going to a visitation/funeral for a friend's grandmother, and we figured, it's 10 am - good time to have breakfast. Well not so good when you ask for a hashbrown and the subway worker says they haven't cooked it yet. Then one of us asked for coffee and subway person the coffee's not available. WHAT? Do we not live in North America where coffee is not only a staple drink, it is most certainly a staple breakfast drink. We weren't asking for some obscure latte this, mocha that. It was just coffee! Oh yeah, subway lady also sort of yelled at me to get my attention so that I could tell her the ingredients in the subway wrap but there was no need for her to yell as we were the only customers in there.

Later on that day, post funeral/visitation, McDonald's won our service.... not only with readily available coffee, but the drive thru girl had an awesome personality as did the manager who handled and handed the pack of hockey cards with purpose and care. When he gave the hockey cards, he said "here's your coffee. and your hockey cards".

So, you hear of people who wedding crash. Well yesterday, we funeral crashed. We were going to go to a friend's grandmother's visitation but we weren't going to stay for the funeral service because we were in a rush to return home. We didn't realise that the visitation place was a different place from the burial. So we show up at burial location and guy was like, "are you here for a chinese woman?" and yeah we were but the weird thing was that the funeral service had already started. The guy hands each of us an envelope and we open these giant double doors for the funeral service in session. It was in cantonese. I hear the word Jesus or God in canto so I assume we are at the right place because our friend told us his grandmother was a Christian. We look around and we don't see our friend, nor do we see our youth pastor. Other people in the group look down at the brief funeral program. How come no one in the program has the same last name as our friend except for the pastor? Oh no, we are at the wrong place!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So we tried to get up inconspicuously while the organist in the back is shooting us dirty looks. We rush out of the room, and put back the envelope. Oh wait, our driver did not put back his envelope. He was in too much of a rush. We only notice when we get back to the car and we're like "You didn't put back the envelope!" It had a candy and quarter inside.

We get in the car. LAUGHING. While driving to the correct visitation place, we sort of burst into random laughter. We crashed a funeral, not a wedding. I feel bad for the family of the person who died. This has taught me that I need to pay attention to the chinese names of old people.

We told our friend the story the next day and he had a good laugh over it.