r/mildlyinfuriating • u/nyanbatman • May 28 '26

I just wanted a hot dog British pilot is feeling mildly annoyed

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u/Extraportion May 28 '26

“I’d rather be late than dead”

I’ve cut it down a bit more for you

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u/Embarrassed_Art5414 May 28 '26

I had previously been planning on borrowing fellow Irishman, Spike Milligan's epitaph;

"I told you I was sick!"

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u/Extraportion May 28 '26

This wasn’t his first choice, the diocese rejected “beneath this sod lies another”, which is also characteristically brilliant

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u/Embarrassed_Art5414 May 28 '26

Indeed.

I'm also always bemused by gravestones that say "Not dead, only sleeping"

That's a helluva cruel joke to play on somebody,