Moments in automotive history #173

It was at his step-mother’s funeral that Josh first had the idea for a steampunk funeral service, and he never looked back….

Better dead than red

Or maybe that should be “Better dead AND red”?

IN Bosnia Zorica Rebernik has spent her life in red and plans to stay that way, even after she dies.

After four decades dressing in the color from head to toe, the 67-year-old has had tombstones made for herself and husband Zoran (whom she married wearing a self-designed red wedding dress) from red granite imported from India.

The retired schoolteacher lives in a red house, where she and Zoran eat from red plates, drink from red glasses and sleep in red bedding, even her hair is dyed red.

“When I turned 18 or 19 there came a sudden,

What a way to go…

strong urge to wear red,” Rebernik told a Reuters reporter. “There must not be a single dot of any other color on my home decorations or clothes.”

Wearing shades like scarlet and vermillion gives her “the feeling of strength and power”.

Rebernik’s obsession with the color has made her a local “celebrity” (some locals suggested other less complimentary descriptions) in her hometown of Breze, in northern Bosnia.

“Everybody knows me. As soon as people see me, they offer me different red things,” she said, adding that she would reject any gift that was not red, no matter how precious.

She even goes to funerals dressed in red, eschewing traditional black.

The only problem is that her husband does not notice when Zorica wears something new. “I can’t tell the difference. Everything is the same,” he said, thus instantly identifying with husbands everywhere.

Just another day at the office #69

Amir felt that the cheerful color of his makeshift hearse would cheer-up the mourners & generally lighten the day’s tone.