This story has George Bluth written all over it. In fact, I’m not totally convinced this isn’t an Arrested Development episode that I’ve forgotten about:
YOU ALWAYS LEAVE A NOTE!
Anyway, you can read this guy’s full story here, but essentially he faked his own death because he didn’t like the way his family had been treating him. He had his wife and his kids in on it, to the extent that his kids even put posts on social media about their father being dead. The more I type the more I feel like this could be a very dark episode of Impractical Jokers.
So we get to the day of his funeral, his whole family is there, and he drops in on them from a helicopter like he’s Logan Roy. Everyone is very emotional, they have a good cry, and presumably these folks are going to be quicker to respond to his texts in the future*. Scene.
*Is that the gist of this whole thing? Feels like it probably is? A few too many friends and family members left his texts on ‘read’ and didn’t respond to him. This went on for a while and he decided to teach them a lesson by fake-dying. My man, people are BUSY. Inflation is at an all time high worldwide, people are working 2-3 jobs to keep up, everyone has to keep track of their email, their phones, their social medias, it’s exhausting. Just because I didn’t respond to a, ‘how have you been?’ text you’re going to fake die on me? Be more dramatic.
PS: I wonder what it must have felt like to be fake-dead? Feels like it’s probably at least a little relaxing, no? Nobody asking you questions anymore, bugging you about inane stuff. I can’t find any article about this guy that says how long he was fake-dead until the funeral, but I bet he kind of enjoyed it.
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