Noreen Grimes
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
She'd say, check the book.
The book says they go to grandson number three.
What about that ugly blue and orange vase?
Oh, the book says it goes to Noreen.
In this settlement, if it was in that book, you had to take it.
And in this particular case, when you turn that vase upside down, there was a little yellow sticker on the bottom of it with my name on it.
So that made it a double whammy.
And we knew this process of emptying our family home was going to be very sad for us.
But earlier on, we were geniuses.
The day of her funeral, if you came back to the house after the service, we forced you to take a swan from her swan collection.
This emptied two curio cabinets.
And what about all those floral vases she'd saved in the basement?
They'd all come through the same local florist just down the street.
We boxed them up and gave them back.
I mean, the florist, she cried.