ONE My dad died. Classic start to a funny story. He was buried in a small village in Sussex. I was really close to my dad so I visited his grave a lot. I still do. [DON’T WORRY, IT GETS FUNNIER.] - ThreadSky

sixthformpoet-fan.bsky.social • 81 days ago

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My dad died. Classic start to a funny story. He was buried in a small village in Sussex. I was really close to my dad so I visited his grave a lot. I still do. [DON’T WORRY, IT GETS FUNNIER.]

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cinnawhee.bsky.social•81 days ago

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nindger.bsky.social•81 days ago

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aarronjawors.bsky.social•81 days ago

It surprisingly does.

ricgrego.me•81 days ago

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yikesahootie.bsky.social•81 days ago

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captainfossil.bsky.social•81 days ago

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lucasaurelius.bsky.social•81 days ago

Great story. This is what social media was meant for.

chrissmithmuso.bsky.social•81 days ago

This is Wodehouse-level comedy and sweet coincidence.

hmestrada.bsky.social•81 days ago

Wow. Just wow. Please write this up as a short story or even a novel.

I would totally buy this book.

You are a great story teller.

Also, good on you for seeking this man's victims and paying your respects.

tricia03.bsky.social•81 days ago

This is wonderful!
Thank you for sharing💕

irishicesp.bsky.social•81 days ago

I love this! It absolutely contributes proof to my contention that every occurrence, no matter what, ends up making a great story some day. Some just take a while to form & fix themselves into a solid that can be seen.

l3moning.bsky.social•81 days ago

always a Half Man Half Biscuit song. Specifically "Tending The Wrong Grave For 23 Years".

suejehanne.bsky.social•81 days ago

❤️

fashionmaven1908.bsky.social•81 days ago

Well - it may not be true but it made me happy to think about so thanks!

ondinemd.bsky.social•81 days ago

Wonderful story. Thank you.

grainneblair.bsky.social•81 days ago

This is just so good when a nice thing happens after all that horror. #Talesoftheunexpected I wish you both health, happiness and kindness

jmnurick.bsky.social•81 days ago

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ladyliminal.bsky.social•80 days ago

This is so weirdly beautiful! Thank you for sharing.
(Whispers) I leave flowers on the grave of the lady who rests beside my dad because she never receives any either. I’m now wondering if I should run a search on her name too. Just in case… 😉

sixthformpoet-fan.bsky.social•81 days ago

I always took flowers and my mum visited a lot and she always took flowers and my grandparents were still alive then and they always took flowers. My dad’s grave frequently resembled a solid third place at the Chelsea Flower Show.

sixthformpoet-fan.bsky.social•81 days ago

Nice but I felt bad for the guy buried next to my dad. He NEVER had flowers. Died on Christmas Day aged 37, no one left him flowers and now there’s a pop-up florist in the grave next door. So I started buying him flowers. I STARTED BUYING FLOWERS FOR A DECEASED MAN I’D NEVER MET.

sixthformpoet-fan.bsky.social•81 days ago

I did this for quite some time, but I never mentioned it to anyone. It was a little private joke with myself, I was making the world a better place one bunch of flowers at a time. I know it sounds weird but I came to think of him as a friend.

sixthformpoet-fan.bsky.social•81 days ago

I wondered if there was a hidden connection between us, something secretly drawing me to him. Maybe we went to the same school, played for the same football club or whatever. So I googled his name, and ten seconds later I found him.

johnrivett.bsky.social•81 days ago

Ok. You did post this 6 years ago and Snopes looked into it. There seem to be some inconsistencies. Care to explain?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sixth-form-poet-wife/

geminafennabog.bsky.social•81 days ago

Awwww! Ruined!

stevieinselby.bsky.social•81 days ago

Apart from the fact that this incident doesn't seem to have happened at all, the biggest inconsistency in the story is the idea that if someone was the protagonist in a triple-murder-suicide, that that wouldn't be the first, second and third result when googling them.

patrickjohanneson.com•81 days ago

This looks to be a "fan account", reposting tweets from a different person's Twitter account.

sixthformpoet-fan.bsky.social•81 days ago

His wife didn’t leave him flowers BECAUSE HE’D MURDERED HER. ON CHRISTMAS DAY. After he murdered his wife, he murdered her parents too. And after that he jumped in front of the only train going through Balcombe tunnel that Christmas night.

sixthformpoet-fan.bsky.social•81 days ago

THAT was why no one ever left him flowers. No one except me, of course. I left him flowers. I left him flowers every couple of weeks. Every couple of weeks FOR TWO AND A HALF YEARS.

owlleggs.bsky.social•81 days ago

What is the dead man’s name? Your wife will know the name of her uncle.

littlehen.bsky.social•81 days ago

Yes! I love this story. Tell the sequels please!

dotwil858.bsky.social•81 days ago

Superb.

joangrey.bsky.social•22 days ago

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jmdon.bsky.social•81 days ago

Absolutely brilliant!!!

jennhp.bsky.social•81 days ago

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andrergomes.bsky.social•81 days ago

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owlleggs.bsky.social•81 days ago

It’s completely fabricated.

whitehorsemews.bsky.social•81 days ago

Every element of perfect story-telling is here…

ulfkrahe.bsky.social•81 days ago

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fights4justice.bsky.social•81 days ago

Good, happy ending to this story. Worth the read!

moebius13.bsky.social•81 days ago

Is this the OP? Because I remember reading this story years ago at the other place.

mohawkrainian.bsky.social•81 days ago

This is not the OP

teladeperita.bsky.social•81 days ago

Me too

shadowmanor.bsky.social•81 days ago

The story was definitely posted at the Bad Place, by @sixthformpoet

They've got their account locked now so I don't know if it's still up over there or not.

moebius13.bsky.social•81 days ago

I just couldn’t remember if they were the actual source for this story.

slye.bsky.social•81 days ago

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sixth-form-poet-wife/

eldris.thellian.com•81 days ago

I reckognised this too. I'm pretty sure these days most sensible individuals would do a search on any grave they planned to put flowers on, if only out of curiosity about who they were.

tribrarian.bsky.social•81 days ago

My thoughts exactly. Fact check EVERYTHING, even on this platform. It's how we keep it informative vs. performative.

moebius13.bsky.social•81 days ago

I mean I guess the account does say it’s a fan account but maybe woulda been nice to just say something like this story first appeared at such and such. Idk.

moebius13.bsky.social•81 days ago

I see they’ve changed up their bio now