"FUNERAL FLOWERS" CORN

Now when you think you have heard it all you can read this post. lol. My daughter and I went to one of our local stores to do some grocering. We picked up some fresh corn on the cob that they had on sale. She wanted the peaches and cream corn so the lady went and found some in the stock room for us. We brought it home and I was standing shucking it at the table and I told my daughter I smell funeral flowers.
Now here in the mountains we have some saying about things that might happen if we see or smell certain things. Like if a red bird trys to come in it is a sign of a death or if a blackbird comes to your house. If you smell funeral flowers it is a sign of a death.
So I did not like the smell I was smelling. She began laughing and said I had lost it. Well, me I omit I am getting old but I have not yet lost my smeller.
So I kept on shucking the corn and I told her again I smell flowers. I reached and got another corn and smelled of it. It smelled just like roses. I got another one and it smelled the same way. She smelled it and said I guess you are right this time it smells like roses. We got the corn out of the bag we had shucked and it all smelled like flowers.
I washed it off and it still smelled like flowers. We knew we sure could not eat this. So we thru it in the garbage.  No corn on the cob that night for us.
I think what had happened the store sells flowers and it must have been next to them in the stockroom. So if you buy fresh corn out of the store take my advice and smell of it before bringing it home because you will be wasting your money if it smells like flowers.
Thank God that was what happened as we sure don't need any more deaths in the family right now. We have had our share the last 3 years.
 I have found that some people do believe in such sayings. I do know that if you see a blackbird and someone is sick nine times out of ten they will die. I know that is what happened to me with my dad. There had never been any blackbirds around my dads home. That morning there were two came and circled around his home. He died that day. He had not been sick and just got sick feeling bad that day. By that afternoon he was dead. So it does scare me when I see blackbirds flying around now. But that is just me..........