Alec

'Just heard a story today of some man who can't pick up his granny from the nursing home in his 2nd hand hearse.'

Ah, nursing and residential homes prefer not be associated with funeral vehicles - I think it gives them bad impressions. Same with hospitals. Funeral directors use a non-descript van to collect the deceased from the mortuary.

PatrickLondon

There's a man near me that uses an old hearse for his carpet-laying business (handy shape, you see): it's covered in adverts with terrible puns ("laying to rest", that sort of thing).

PalenQ

thanks for bringing up memories of those antique cable systems that transported the customers cash to yes a lady in a box above the store floor to i guess audit and send back change and receipt

Last i saw that was in the late 60s - just in one store

but yes as a child it did fascinate me that system - and the vacuum tubes which banks now use for the drive up customers but not quite the same as watching the thing go along wires to that lady up there.