Exit Laughing: How Humor Takes the Sting Out of Death by Victoria Zackheim

Author:Victoria Zackheim [Zackheim, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Family & Relationships, Humor, Fiction, Form, American, Literary Criticism, Literary Collections, Self-Help, Essays, Death; Grief; Bereavement
ISBN: 9781583944073
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2012-05-08T00:00:00+00:00

A couple of weeks later, I got a call from Bob.

“Can you come by this week? There’s something that Decca wanted you to have.”

We made a date, and I wondered what the something might be. A trinket? A book? A letter about all the fun we’d had pretending to be rock stars together? Bob wouldn’t give any clues, and a few days later I drove to Berkeley to pick up what I was sure would be a small gift, a token.

He pointed to an old, polished hardwood cabinet in the hallway. “That’s it,” he said with a smile. “I hope you have room in your trunk.”

“Um, wow, thanks.”

“Do you know what this is? Here, let me show you.” The front of the cabinet turned out to be two fake drawers on a hinged covering. Bob removed the facade to reveal—a porcelain potty.

“It’s the Mitford family chamber pot. Decca loved your potty songs, and she wanted you to have this. It’s over a hundred years old, you know.”

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