unsurprisingly, a lot of these stories seem a little morbid
so, if you'll excuse the black humour, i shall recount the story of my best mates mum...

She use to work part time as a cleaner in an old peoples home (she used to clean the home rather than the people).
She would Hoover early in the morning while the old people were either alert or asleep, thus making it easier to get around with the hoover.
The first few times she said it freaked her out, but in the end, as she was the first person in the home "doing the rounds" as it were, she was the one who would find the people who had passed on.
She said the thing that pissed her off the most was when they died in the lift, you either got a big shock when it opened for you, or you had to go up 5 flights of stairs to find the bugger.
Also if they fall a certain way across the lift doors, they make a "huuur huuuuur" noise as the lift doors try to close and compress their lungs.

I got the feeling she became a little desensitized to it all really.
( KittyWaste lives at Sleepingplanet.com, Sun 2 Mar 2008, 6:19, Reply)