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Late Husband's Employer
ouiskiandzoda Started conversation May 30, 2005
I should start by explaining that I was raised to think that it's rude to ask for things; one should wait till it's offered. You don't take the last cookie on the plate until everyone has had one chance at it. I didn't even ask for ice cream at grandma Zora's house.
About a month after my husband's death, I was encouraged to attend his company Holiday party. They presented me with an engraved plaque and invited me to display it in the store where he worked permanently. I agreed for a number of reasons, including that there would be no marker in a cemetary.
His dad immediately wanted to see it. The store manager sent a picture. I had this eerie feeling that when they visited near my husband's birthday, his family would want to take it home with them, so I reminded the store manager that I did not elect to display it in the store because I did not want the plaque. During the family pilgrimage, they stopped by the store to see it. His father asked to have it!!! After I made it clear to him that I had decided to display it in the store so we could all enjoy it.
After the company showed the generosity to commemorate my husband,I thanked them, naturally.
His father asked them to make him a plaque so he could have it. They did. It's being shipped to my former father-in-law tomorrow. Now, I'm wondering if his wife and other two sons will ask for plaques, as well. And I'm worried that the company will remember me when they think of my former in-laws tactless behavior.
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