12/24/18 - OUR HORRENDOUS EXPERIENCE - A TRUE STORY!
WHEN MY DAD DIED WE MADE ARRANGEMENTS WITH DUGGAN'S MORTUARY IN DALY CITY. THE MAN THAT SPOKE TO US SAID WE'D HAVE TO PUT MONEY DOWN. SO WE DID.
THIS SAME MAN WAS SUPPOSE TO MAKE ALL THE ARRANGEMENTS > CHURCH, PRIEST, MUSIC, FLOWERS, EVERYTHING. WE NEVER SAW HIM AGAIN. HE VANISHED.
HE SAID SOMETHING ABOUT SURGERY AND HE WAS GONE.
INSTEAD OF HAVING ANOTHER PERSON ASSIGNED TO HELP US, NO ONE BOTHERED, SO WE WERE LEFT TO MAKE ALL THE ARRANGEMENTS ON OUR OWN...AND WE DID. ALL THE WHILE WE WERE GRIEVING MY DAD, WE WERE STRESSED TO THE MAX, EXHAUSTED, CRYING, DEPRESSED, WE ARRANGED FOR THE CASKET, THE SUIT MY DAD WOULD WEAR, THE CHURCH, THE PRIEST, A SINGER AND PIANIST, THE MUSIC, THE FLOWERS, ARRANGED THE WAKE, THE AFTER FUNERAL FAMILY GET TOGETHER AT MOLLOY'S IN COLMA, WE WERE SO TIRED AND THEN WE REMEMBERED THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING APPROPRIATE TO WEAR!!! WE RUSHED ALL OVER THE CITY LOOKING FOR DARK DRESSES, BUT IT WAS APRIL AND NONE OF THE RETAIL STORES HAD ANY DARK COLORED DRESSES. WE MANAGED TO FIND SOMETHING APPROPRIATE. THE MORNING OF THE MASS AT CHURCH WE WERE GLAD THAT WE HIRED A SINGER AND PIANIST, WHICH MADE THINGS SO MUCH NICER. ANYHOW DUGGAN'S DIDN'T DO ANYTHING, EXCEPT DRIVE US TO THE CEMETERY. YET
THEY KEPT OUR MONEY AND TO THIS DAY THEY REFUSE TO REFUND US THE MONEY WE PAID. IN ADDITION TO OUR SORROW THERE WAS THIS YOUNG MAN, AN APPRENTICE WORKING AT DUGGAN'S, A CREEPY GUY CONSTANTLY TRYING TO EVADE MY DAUGHTER'S SPACE, TRYING TO TALK TO HER, WALKING BEHIND HER, RIGHT ON HER HEELS, ASKING FOR HER PHONE NUMBER. I TOLD THE OWNERS BUT THEY DID NOTHING. HE WAS PROBABLY RELATED TO THE OWNERS. ONE NIGHT AROUND 2AM THIS CREEP CALLED OUR HOUSE!!! HE TOLD US SOMETHING THAT WE'LL NEVER FORGET...THAT A MAN AND A WOMAN CAME BY DUGGAN'S MORTUARY AFTER MIDNIGHT AND WANTED TO VIEW MY DEAD FATHER!!!!! I THOUGHT THAT I WAS HAVING A NIGHTMARE!!! HALF ASLEEP AND EXHAUSTED MY DAUGHTER AND I COULDN'T BELIEVE THIS BIZARRE STORY.
I ASKED HIM, "YOU DIDN'T ALLOW THESE STRANGERS TO VIEW MY FATHER'S BODY!!!...DID YOU?" THE CREEPY YOUNG MAN HESITATED AND SAID, "OF COURSE NOT". I DIDN'T BELIEVE HIM. THIS UNKNOWN COUPLE PROBABLY PAID THIS CREEPY YOUNG MAN MONEY; IN WHICH CASE THESE STRANGERS WERE PERMITTED TO VIEW MY DAD'S DEAD BODY...LITERALLY!!! BECAUSE THIS BIZARRE INCIDENT TOOK PLACE BEFORE THE WAKE, IN THE EARLY HOURS AFTER MIDNIGHT, WHICH MEANS THAT MY DAD'S BODY WAS NUDE AND KEPT REFRIGERATED. THAT CREEPY YOUNG MAN ALLOWED WHOEVER THESE PEOPLE WERE TO VIEW MY DAD WITHOUT HIS CLOTHES ON!!!!!!!! WE'VE HAD MANY NIGHTMARES OVER THIS. IT TURNED MY DAD'S FUNERAL FROM A PEACEFUL GOOD BYE TO SOMETHING SURREAL FROM A HORROR STORY. I NEVER FOUND OUT THE IDENTITY OF THIS STRANGE COUPLE.
ATTENTION > DUGGAN BROTHERS - IF YOU READ THIS REVIEW - WE WANT OUR MONEY BACK PLUS THIS HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE WARRANTS COMPENSATION!!!!!!