The Neon Nurse's Charting

A Certain Party who shall remain nameless recently asked my advice (Well, okay, called to vent, but that is always automatically a request for advice, yes?) about a tricky etiquette problem.

CP has legal custody of a box of cremains, or in non-technical terms, the ashes left over from a person who has been cremated. There are vague plans to someday display these in an appropriate and tasteful urn, but various circumstances have kept that from happening so far.

So, every now and then, a Different Party who has only a tangential connection to the cremains, but is in the running to be Exalted Queen of all the Drama Queens Ever of All Time, calls the CP up to rant and rave about getting her "fair share" of the box of grey gritty goodies.

My primary advice was "Just hang up." But as the venting continued, I had a better idea.

I suggested the CP should go out back to the trash-burning barrel, scoop a couple of trowel's worth out of it, sneak over to the DP's residence by gloom of night and dump the goods on the welcome mat.

THEN, boy howdy, we'd see some DRAMA!