Is This Odd Or What?
A 35 year friend and customer had us out for regular maintenance on his A/C. We arrived and the contractor doing some work on his property told us he passed away last night from a heart attack. He is in the funeral business and has helped us in the past and going forward. I was shocked!
My wife called his wife asap and some woman answered the the phone and said things happen get over it and hung up.
Two months later he called my office. My office manager of 18 years had to put him on hold to gather her thoughts, he as a friend to all of us. She was very shaken. He said he has been calling his friends to say his death is not true and he has been getting flowers sent to the house and sympathy cards to his wife. Still unsure how it got that far.
A Few weeks later (last week) someone was killed in our town in a hit and run on a pedestrian. The name was released and it was his name right down to the spelling of his first middle and last name and age.
He then felt obligated to call everyone to say it wasn't him yet again. Very creepy.
My wife called his wife asap and some woman answered the the phone and said things happen get over it and hung up.
Two months later he called my office. My office manager of 18 years had to put him on hold to gather her thoughts, he as a friend to all of us. She was very shaken. He said he has been calling his friends to say his death is not true and he has been getting flowers sent to the house and sympathy cards to his wife. Still unsure how it got that far.
A Few weeks later (last week) someone was killed in our town in a hit and run on a pedestrian. The name was released and it was his name right down to the spelling of his first middle and last name and age.
He then felt obligated to call everyone to say it wasn't him yet again. Very creepy.
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I hate to say it, but your friend sounds shady. You should see if he has a motor home parked in his living room.
Very strange AC. I believe I'd go across town and lay eyes on him just to make sure.
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I think some jack **** got it started and it blew up from there. Lots of miscumunication as well.
When my wife called his wife she never mentioned the person died. So go figure what that was about.
He fired the contractor that started the rumors.
The odds that someone else died and in the paper last week with the same name and age was even stranger.
Although he does have a very common name. Like a Bill Smith type of name.
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