Over the years, I regularly asked my Grandfather why he kept this seasoned window unit he had.
- He said they don’t make those units any longer and it had romantic value to him.
It wasn’t until he was close to passing away that he asked me a favor. He told me he wanted me to make sure he was buried with that window unit in his coffin. He said that the window unit was given to him as a gift from Grandmother. It clearly meant a lot to him and he told me the story about when she first bought it for him, then she thought he maybe didn’t enjoy the gift, but he promised it was the best gift he had ever acquired from anybody. He also promised her that he would take that gift with him to his grave just to show her how much it meant to him and how much she meant to him. I thought it was such a beautiful story and wondered if he made it sound more impressive than it actually was, anyway, I promised him I would honor his wish to be buried with that window unit. When I told the people working at the funeral repair to put this window unit in his coffin with his arm around it, they thought I was nuts. That was until I told everybody the story. I even spoke at the funeral repair and told everybody there about the story and how it was my Grandfather’s last wish to make sure he fulfilled that promise to his charming wife. I knew they were excited smiling down from heaven, although I was glad that they would be reunited again.