Graveside Chat

On Sunday morning I got to spend a couple of hours with my best pal from childhood (no I DON'T want to say how long we know each other!).  She was in NYC visiting her honey, and they came out on the Long Island Rail Road to pay respects to her parents and grandma at a Jewish cemetery near Pinelawn.  Her mom is gone six years now, and her dad passed in 1980 -- but they were like a second set of parents to me.  So we were by Mom and Dad's monuments, reflecting upon the height of the bushes and sharing some memories.  All of a sudden, she notices a stone on the ground, a few spots over, with some worn writing.  Her eyes grow wide, and she asks:  "Does that say ATHEIST?!?"  I remarked, in flip fashion, that there might be many atheists there but no one really wanted to advertise this by carving it on stone.  Turns out the stone really said AT REST upon closer inspection.  Were we demented to have had a laugh over this?  Good company, regardless.