Oh my good lord.

[gness]

Now what to do! Since I moved to a different town I don't keep up with everything in my old stomping ground. Met an old colleague a few months ago who told me someone I had worked with, on a voluntary basis, had died. I sent a card and letter to the family offering my sympathy and saying how much I had enjoyed her company.
Nearly dropped a few minutes ago when the "dead" woman was interviewed on the radio about her volunteering!
Can I get a.....glad you are alive card?
Oh bums!!!!!

[Psybbo]

Ouch!

[gness]

Yes...Ouch...blood ran cold Sibton. :-(

[Psybbo]

Was it a live programme?

[China Doll]

I don't see how that's your fault. Just call them and explain what happened, or write a letter explaining what you were told.

[tonyav]

Oh bums indeed, gness.

[Flyhalf]

A quick phone call to explain? Trying to put this in writing is fraught with dangers, whereas you can express yourself more in conversation.
Either way, get in quick!

[gness]

Interview wouldn't have been live........I can sort it... knowing them ......with humour! But wait til I see the chap who told me! Must have been a sort of chinese whispers thing because he was so sure.

[Psybbo]

Sorry, gness I didn't mean to be funny, I just wondered if it was a kind of memorial to her.

[DTCwordfan]

send her such a card, I am sure you can find an appropriate card and then spill the story inside. "The Second Coming" card.....or a "Birth" card.

[gness]

Oh I see Sib. :-)) No she's very much alive.....will end up as a laugh but could have been worse with the wrong sort of people.

[DTCwordfan]

(I would check to see what her status is through the voluntary place though........)

[jno]

one of these should do the trick

http://t1.gstatic.com...vI4hV8rV422bD4d0oRWfD

[DTCwordfan]

I rather like this one, the interior reading "Party like you have risen from the dead."

http://www.zazzle.co....rd-137710042984912077

[Ann]

Can you check the obits online in her local nerwspaper? Then you would be absolutely sure before ringing them. What an awful thing to happen gness, bet you feel awful .................... same thing happened to my Mum many years ago, she was told a well known local businesswoman, a pillar of society in our town had suddenly died that day. Mum had known her for years, so feeling quite upset, she phoned round and told several others. Imagine her tremendous shock and horror when she opened the door that evening in response to the doorbell and found the very lady selling poppies for the British Legion. Mum said at the time "I could have fainted right away". She hadn't the heart to tell her, but she did ask if anything was the matter because Mum looked so poorly!

[gness]

Hi Ann...she's alive and kicking. They will see the funny side if I meet them again. Lost touch with lots when I moved but will no doubt meet at some event in the future.
I once ran a Church Brownie pack and one of the brownies, who was deaf with poor speech, told me her daddy had died. When the minister came to collect his daughter I told him that Mr.X had died. He asked me to take his daughter home while he went to comfort the family. He wasn't long..it was her doggie that had died.