Just Another Manic Monday

Monday started out fairly quiet at the funeral home. We had one funeral, visitation starting at 12 noon, then leave for church around 1:30. Right before it's time to leave for church, we get a call. As soon as we get back from church, we get another call. Later that evening, after hours, we get two calls. Then, on Tuesday morning, we get a call from a family who wanted to make sure we had picked up their loved one, who passed away the night before. We did not have this body. It turns out the nursing home had called the wrong funeral home. So we had to call the other funeral home and make arrangements to pick up the body. So in 24 hours we went from one body to five. So we had death certificates to prepare, permits to file, obituaries to type, and a bunch of paperwork to complete. The owner sat with three families in direct succession. As I write this it is Wednesday night, and most of the services for these calls are concluded, or will be by Friday morning.