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Funeral Procession Etiquette

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  • George KG Offline
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    George K
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    Last week, Mrs. George was driving home and encountered a funeral procession. She was on a four lane road, with no obvious shoulder to the right. The procession was long, about 40 cars, and in the left lane, about to make a left turn into the cemetery.

    She passed the procession on the right, the lane she was in, and there were cars behind her.

    As she passed, she got several "looks could kill" gazes from some of the people in the procession.

    What should she have done, stopped?

    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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    • RainmanR Offline
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      Rainman
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      flipped them off

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      • George KG Offline
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        George K
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        Just asked again...the procession was several blocks long. It was making a left turn from her street onto another street. When she passed it, she got lots of flashing lights and horn beeps.

        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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        • Aqua LetiferA Offline
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          Aqua Letifer
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          #4

          A lot of people in a funeral procession aren't from around there. They need the procession to know how to get to the cemetery. (And they can't just show up whenever, these things are often on a schedule.) I'd say, just don't get in between the cars. Everything else is whatever.

          Please love yourself.

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          • CopperC Online
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            Copper
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            Do not pass. Drivers traveling in the same direction as a funeral procession should never pass or attempt to pass unless the highway has two or more lanes going in that direction. When on a highway, never pass a funeral procession from the right side unless it is traveling in the far left lane.

            https://vaughncgreene.com/blogs/blog-entries/3/News-Events/148/The-Protocol-for-Funeral-Processions-Ten-Important-Things-You-Need-to-Know.html#:~:text=Do not pass.,in the far left lane.

            Mrs. K is OK.

            The "looks could kill" gazes are jerks.
            They probably got left out of the will.

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            • JollyJ Offline
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              Jolly
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              I'm from the rural South.

              We'd stop an interstate.

              “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

              Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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              • George KG Offline
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                George K
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                "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                  Doctor Phibes
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                  @George-K it’s a shame you don’t have a car with a horn that blows Dixie.

                  Because that would have been awesome.

                  I was only joking

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                    @George-K it’s a shame you don’t have a car with a horn that blows Dixie.

                    Because that would have been awesome.

                    JollyJ Offline
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                    @Doctor-Phibes said in Funeral Procession Etiquette:

                    @George-K it’s a shame you don’t have a car with a horn that blows Dixie.

                    Because that would have been awesome.

                    You don't have one? 🤠

                    “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                    Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                    • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

                      @George-K it’s a shame you don’t have a car with a horn that blows Dixie.

                      Because that would have been awesome.

                      MikM Away
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                      Mik
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                      @Doctor-Phibes said in Funeral Procession Etiquette:

                      @George-K it’s a shame you don’t have a car with a horn that blows Dixie.

                      Because that would have been awesome.

                      Who’s Dixie?

                      Yeah, in Indiana you stop even if the procession is going the other way. Not that way in Ohio.

                      “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                      • MikM Mik

                        @Doctor-Phibes said in Funeral Procession Etiquette:

                        @George-K it’s a shame you don’t have a car with a horn that blows Dixie.

                        Because that would have been awesome.

                        Who’s Dixie?

                        Yeah, in Indiana you stop even if the procession is going the other way. Not that way in Ohio.

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                        Doctor Phibes
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                        @Mik said in Funeral Procession Etiquette:

                        Who’s Dixie?

                        She's stuck her finger in a woodpecker's hole.

                        I was only joking

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