The seriously weird lady

This summer my dad passed away.
The service was held in his favourite church where he had been doing research, before he retired as an architect.
After the service my sister had arranged lunch for friends and family at her house a 10 mile drive from the church.
My good friend and his dad offered a lift to a middle aged lady from the service.
They thought it was a tiny bit weird that she read Donald Duck comics during the drive, but for all they knew she could be a distant relative or more likely an artist fallen on hard times.
After maybe an hour at my sister's house, it was obvious that she had never met my my dad or anybody else in the house before for that matter.
That didn't stop her from happily trying to bluff her way through the increasingly embarassing situation.
She was taken to the nearest bus stop where the buses run once every three hours.
Several of the guest remarked that they had noticed her before, at other funerals.
We have since learned that this lady goes to funerals and the wake afterwards as a bizarre hobby, but, and here is the really weird part, primarily if it is an architect who has passed away.
I think my dad would have found that kind of behaviour highly amusing.
In some countries it is considered good luck to have someone crash your wedding.
i wonder if it also applies to funerals.

Is there such a thing as a free Barbie?

The other day my 4 year old daugther was waiting with my wife at a train station in England.
One of the staff asked her if she liked Barbie.
He then proceeds to give her a big new "Barbie and Ken", set which had been left on a train and was "unclaimed".
My daughter does have a knack of making strangers give her stuff, but this time I am afraid there was something more sinister going on.
Could the "Friendly", train man be on Mattel's payroll?
Something like the drug pusher giving the first hit for free?
Will there be 10 Barbies in our house at christmas?

Music to live by.

This summer we decided to drive down the "Pacific Coast Highway", in California.
Needless to say the trip was great!
Incredible landscape, beautiful weather, good company.
I happily parted with 500 dollars extra to upgrade our rental from a Taurus to a Dodge Charger.
-Living in a country where the cars are taxed more than 200% will do that to a man.
The car came with a plug for my Ipod and my wife made On-the-fly playlists of our favourite songs to go with the changing landscape.
A lot of the songs already remind me of key moments or times in my life, when I hear them
But, back in Denmark I find some of these songs have now changed.
They now remind me of Cruising down past "The Big Sur", from San Francisco to L.A.
I guess that is a pretty good trade.