Football seats mark man's grave via USA Today
MOUNT LEBANON, Pa. — Paul Wellener's family found the perfect marker for his grave: two blue plastic seats from the Three Rivers Stadium auction. Wellener, a lifelong football fan and a Pittsburgh Steelers season ticket holder for 42 years, died unexpectedly on March 16. Wellener's son, Paul, and widow, Mary Ann, bought three pairs of stadium seats for $2,100 at an auction — and knew they had found the perfect gravestone.
How do you want to be remembered? By old, plastic seats. I guess it is fitting--I mean he did spend 42 years of his life sitting in Three Rivers. Those seats are kind of small though--I would go for a couch or something. You could get a really nice couch for $2,100. I mean, we are talking about eternal bliss aren't we? (No, not really.)
And what about theft? $2,100 seats sitting unprotected in a graveyard doesn't sound practical. I mean, they sound like a pretty lucrative black market E-Bay-esque item.
Then I reflect upon my own grave marker--What do I want? Hmmm. This is getting morbid. But really, whomever is alive when I am gone--please don't buy Carmike Cinema seats for my soul to languish away on post mortem. I'd prefer a couch--a pink one...or one of those butterfly chairs that people keep stealing from SHU. That would be heavenly.
*FYI-on that page: Slightly off center..., there are three other stories on western PA--could this be a one day thing, or is PA just odd? Hmmm.
Conscience: Stop it, Amanda! Save your brain power for your research papers. What are you doing on your blog anyway? You should be working!
Me: Ah, shut up. Will ya? I'll get everything done. I needed to update my blog...everyone will think that I got sick or something.
C: LAME! Procrastinator.
M: Na uh.
C: Yes huh.
The battle wages on...
Posted by Amanda Cochran at April 8, 2004 6:29 PMStephan: "echo..echo...echo....echo"
Does no one comment anymore? Well Amanda, I think you have struck something here. How do people remember us?
This poor guy was remembered by his love for watching men in tight pants play sports? I hope I have more than that to commemorate my life
Being buried by a guitar would be nice though.
You paint a grim scene. $2,100 dollar chair gavestones? what ever happened to just putting a coin on the deceased's tongue?
You got me thinking Amanda...Amazing!...I think I'm going to have to blog. Tah Tah.
Posted by: Puff at April 9, 2004 12:31 AMI don't think that it is amazing that you are thinking--you think constantly. But blogging those thoughts--that is an accomplishment.
And I would never want to be remembered by cinema chairs. Never. I was just trying to apply this family's contorted sentimentality to my own situation.
And I don't know where everyone has gone. Vacation, I suppose. Or they have gone to your blog...:-D :-(
Posted by: Amanda at April 9, 2004 10:32 AMYep, the blogs have been kinda vacant. I mean, I went nut-so on my layout and whatnot, and I even wrote a tasty little piece on Atkins--with no avail. :-(
Ca me fait triste :'(
Posted by: Karissa at April 9, 2004 8:23 PM