He was working in the room where they were doing embalming, and he realized he knew the person the mortician was working on
My husband and I were looking for our perfect home. We quickly realized there was no perfect when you were on a tight budget and had to settle for nearly perfect. There was no finished basement or new HVAC system in the house. Our basement was all dirty and damp, and the HVAC system needed to be replaced as soon as possible. It was fall, and our first change was installing a new furnace. We also had to install a sump pump because of the wet floor. It was more like mud, and I realized the HVAC technician was going to need to work in that filth. I could only imagine the HVAC team getting the furnace into the basement, and someone needing to crawl around in the mud to do the installation. I felt guilty doing this to the HVAC technician. When the HVAC team arrived with the furnace, I winced when I showed them to the basement. I followed them downstairs and apologized for the basement. We had just bought the house and hadn’t had time to make any repairs. The HVAC technician waved me away and said it wasn’t a big deal. They had been in a lot worse places than this one. He told me how he had to install a new HVAC system in a mortuary. He was working in the room where they were doing embalming, and he realized he knew the person the mortician was working on. He threw up all over the sterile floor. The mortician was devastated, but he was so embarrassed that he cried like a baby.