June 15, 2009 - 6:11 AM.

Seriously with the guest book you lazy people

My last uncle died several months ago, after a very complicated final few months and a life of serious health problems.

His daughter put up a "Guest Book" page sponsored by the newspaper in the town where he lived for 35 years. She e-mailed everyone they had known for her entire life and beyond, asking people to leave comments and remembrances.

Not ONE person from that town has signed that guest book. It has been up for four months, and she has sent out 2 additional e-mails begging people to sign so she has remembrances of her father. Under a dozen people have signed it, and every single one of them are people he grew up with and knew in high school. He graduated high school in 1966 and left that town the following year.

Which means that the only people bothering to leave a note, are people he hasn't seen for 40 years.

He went to a fucking CHURCH in this town for 35 years! Where are the comments by the people who knew him there? Where are his co-workers, his neighbors? I know he knew a crap-ton of people.

I don't mind for myself - I never had any kind of relationship with this uncle and do not miss him. But Jeebus McIntyre, if a grieving daughter asks you to sign an internet guest book, have some fucking courtesy and pony up.

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