Tell us about when you had a moment

[DickyC]

My uncle was an interesting man. He built his own home. He had a workshop in the garden next to the garage with a lathe and milling machine. Almost anything he needed he could make. He loved his garden, he grew fruit and vegetables. He and my aunt had no children. Shortly after he retired my aunt died. He coped. A self sufficient man if ever there was one. When he died it emerged he had made my brother and me his executors. We organised the funeral, registered his death, looked at his papers and started to sort his things. One day I unlocked his workshop and stood at the door looking at his tools and several half finished machining projects he had underway. I couldn't disturb anything. Not yet. When I locked the door again I realised the previous person to lock the door was my uncle as he, unknowingly, locked it for the last time. Jeez, that hit me hard.

[DickyC]

The first time I heard Wet Leg’s Chaise Longue I was knocked out by it and thought to myself, “John Peel will love this.”

[anonymous-user]

Clearing mum and dad's house after mum passed away, going through their wardrobe and finding dad's old cap from when he was electrical engineer in the merchant navy. That was years before i was born.

Also found the lederhosen he brought back from Germany whilst in the TA for my older brother and i. I would probably have been 2 at the time so they kept those for over 50 years.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Mine was a bit silly maybe.

When my father in law died I had the job of selling his MGB. When I fired it up the fuel gauge showed full. It just made me teary that he'd filled it up in anticipation......

[bristolbaron]

Around 5 years back I was undergoing a big restoration of our current house and my grandfather would regularly pop past to check on progress. Never one to announce his arrival or departure he’d walk in whilst I was in the middle of tearing down whatever needed tearing down or building whatever needed building.

Earlier this year, we were going through the final stages of an extension and I was putting noggings in a stud wall with my back to the door when he turned up. Except he didn’t, as he died at the start of covid. I wasn’t able to attend the funeral due to lockdown rules so I’d never been able to say a proper goodbye until then. Funny how the brain works, but I was glad of the experience.

[K87]

My father died in hospital.

The hospital called me and asked me to collect his clothes, I asked them to throw them away but they refused. I collected his trousers, shirt and shoes from the ward, I had assumed that they would be in a bag, they were not.

Carrying his clothes the hundred yards from the hospital to my car was the longest walk of my life.

[Punctilio]

Shocking behaviour by the hospital staff, it seems not all nurses are angels,
what does it take to put the clothes in a poly bag ?

[Monkeylegend]

Took my 5 year old Old English Sheepdog to the vets after he had a fit and went blind.

I came out with an empty collar and lead.

[austinsmirk]

My father died 13 years ago. In lockdown who remembers all the faff about haircuts ?

My mother, still had a set of his hair clippers.

So there was a point where my wife set about my hair, using his old clippers that still had my fathers hair in it.

Hmmmm.

[InitialDave]

My dad went into hospital for open heart surgery, the same op, for the same reason, that killed his dad, at the same age.

When I was staying over with my mum to give her some moral support while he was in hospital, I found he'd labelled up all the projects in the garage with what state they were in, whether something was drained or only loosely fitted together and so on. Basically giving me a rundown on what I needed to sort out if he didn't come out of it.

(He was ok and is still kicking)

[and31]

Having to collect my fathers person belongings from the hospital after he died in 2021.really badly affected me, cried like a baby all the way home.-his dressing gown is still in the boot of the car,I can’t bring myself to throw it away.