This Lady Having Her Funeral Procession At A Tim Horton's Drive-Thru Was A Touching Move
CBCNews- Rosemary Dibbley’s funeral wouldn’t have been complete without one final stop for tea at Tim Hortons. Dibbley died at the age of 56 years last week. After her funeral mass at Good Shepherd Parish in Tecumseh, Ont., her funeral procession took the unusual step of filing through the Tim Hortons drive-thru where she’d been going for her tea every day for years. Her order was always the same, “One bag in, one bag on the side,” with nothing to eat. Sometimes she’d see either her daughter Breanne or Gillian working behind the counter.
“Every time we went somewhere, Rosemary would always ask, ‘Did you bring back a tea?’ Or she’d say, ‘I wouldn’t mind a tea when you get back,'” her husband Pat remembered. “We thought, how appropriate, [Rosemary’s] last tea before she’s gone.” “It was very touching, it meant so much,” he said.
Not gonna lie, I shed a little bit of a tear there. Whether its at a bar, a fast food restaurant, or anywhere else on God’s green Earth nothing beats being a regular. Walk into the place and just say “I’ll have the regular” and it comes out just as you like it. Or better yet when you walk into a bar and the bartender just starts filling up a tall pint glass of exactly what you want without you muttering a word. That’s the American (or in this case Canadian) dream. That’s probably why Cheers became the force it did. It felt like everyone knew your name even as you were watching on TV. Sure having a bunch of hearses drive through a Tim Horton’s to fulfill your order one last time seems a little strange. But that’s the way Rosemary would have wanted it. When I die, I am giving my wife explicit order for my drive thru funeral. Spicy Chicken from Wendys followed by a medium fries, a four piece McNuggets, and a medium Coke from McDonald’s. Everyone knows the Coke tastes best at Mickey D’s.