<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>karenb</b></i>
I am still waiting for Allie as well. I find it very hard to believe that she would make any sort of joke relating to the death of her husband. I just dont believe it!
Allie, you have asked me in the past to be honest, and I have decided to be just that. I asked you in the past what you found humor in. I find it hard to believe that it is this, that you find humor in. I wont believe it until you say it was meant to be a joke.
Karen ~ Wife to a man I will never disrespect his memory for the sake of a practical joke!</end quote></div>
I'm not Allie, but I talk to her a lot. And I just wanted to comment on this. Not everyone grieves the same way, as I'm sure we all know. Allie is and Ry was a huge smart*ss. She has to be able to laugh at him, poke fun at him, and such. Whenever we talk about his death in a surface sort of tone, we say smart*ss stuff about him. If we're talking about how devastated she is, and how she misses him and such, we generally don't. We've talked about him going to Jew hell (of course we don't believe this). We've made mention of "Ry would've loved such and such" "Ah well, it's his loser fault he missed it, for going and dying." We talk about how her and my Mike will make fun of me and Ry together when I die, about how we're big losers who had to go die. I make fun of Allie, telling her she needs to shop for a husband more carefully. She bought a very cheap model with a terrible warranty. It's not as if she changed just for this whole thing. She's always had a good sense of humor about his death, that whole thing.
I'm not dead yet, and don't plan on croaking for a while, if I have any say in it. I don't imagine Mike will be in much of a mood to joke for the first few weeks or even months. But I hope that he can keep his wonderful sense of humor and make jokes about me the same way Allie does Ry. It only comes from love, and trying to grieve in her own way. It's kind of a good memory for Ry, because it's a good example of his huge smart*ss type of humor. She's picking up where he left off, something like that.
And Allie is currently a bit shy about responding, I'm sure she will later. But for now, if anyone wishes to trust my word, it was indeed a joke. Allie says it was Sean's idea, and she told him it was a bad one. But that she went along with it. It was, as she says, a social experiment to see how fast they could get a topic locked.