Stacey makes a new friend at school and invites her home for 
the first time. Stacey excuses herself to fetch her Mom and 
introduce her new friend. As her friend is standing in the living 
room next to the fireplace, she picks up the attractive vase on 
the mantle. 

When Stacey returns with her mother, her friend is staring 
curiously into the vase. "Oh, those are my father's ashes," 
Stacey informs her new friend. However, this startles her so 
that she drops the vase with a  -- ashes and broken 
vase scattering all around. 

After turning three shades of red she stammers out, "Oh, no... 
I'm, oh!... I, can't... didn't mean to.." 

"It's OK dear," the mother says. "The vase was just from Wal- 
Mart." 

The new friend catches her breath enough to say, "But... but 
your husband's ashes..." 

"Well," the mother says, "looks like he'll just have to get off 
his lazy butt and get the ashtray from the kitchen from now on!"