#some families can afford small above ground crypts or mausoleaums

[homesweetgoodneighbor]

Down here during major floods, sometimes skeletons get flooded out of their cemeteries, especially the mausoleums. They get confused and wander around in parking lots making friends with the gators who also end up in parking lots but only because "Whoo! My bayou became a lake! Let's ride!" Most people take it in stride and keep track of both gators and skeletons for the authorities until the flood's end. Once the waters recede, our local skeleton department of wildlife and fisheries usually round them up by enticing them with crab shells and crawfish tails from leftover seafood boils, which is part of their standard diet. (Gators are just hog tied and brought back to their bayous.) Some people try to feed them to get them to hang around their house to deter pests like door-to-door religion peddlers and snakes. (Snakes like to climb on them and wind around their bones making them easier to catch and release into the wild.) Skeletons, however, are hard to domesticate and can often become a pest themselves because when they get bored they chew on the masonry. So, always leave it to the experts, kids!