Neurotic Like Me: Overheard at Paxton Gate

(At least 95% accurate recreation of conversation heard at Paxton Gate at 2:12 p.m., February 19, 2007.)

Customer 1: (Lifting lid of cast iron container) I agree that it's completely cool, but what would you do with it?

Customer 2: Use it for human remains, like after they've died.

Customer 1: Human remains? How would they fit? You'd have to buy a bunch of them and cut the person into bite size pieces.

Customer 2: After cremation. Like Anna Nicole. They did it with that 90-year-old husband of hers. Cremated dogs and humans leave about the same amount of ash.

Customer 1: Oh, I guess that's right. I don't have any cremation remains around the house, so I guess I'll pass on it. Are you sure that's what they're going to do with her? I thought she wa being buried.

Customer 2: Let's go over there, I think they're having a sale on mink skulls.