11 Things Overheard at Coffee Mogul’s Viewing

In this photo made available Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016, father Pietro Segato, the parish priest of Casale Corte Cerro, stands in front of a Moka pot containing the ashes of Renato Bialetti, during his burial service in the cemetery of Omegna, Northern Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016. Renato Bialetti had expressed his wish to be cremated and then buried in the Moka his father Alfonso invented in 1933. Although he was not the inventor, Renato was responsible for the extensive marketing campaign that made the Moka an icon of Italian design, exposed in museums such as the Museum Of Modern Art and many others all over the world. (AP Photo/Elisa Sola)

Coffee mogul Renato Bialetti invented a household staple. It’s that strange shaped silver coffee percolator that you’ve seen used on stovetops all around the world. After Bialetti died earlier this month, his remains were interred in an unusual way…they were placed inside one of his pots.  We didn’t have the budget to attend the service, but if we had, we’d imagine these would be the things overheard, during the viewing.

Things overheard at coffee mogul’s viewing….

*…’grande?’
*…’styrofoam or paper?’
*…’slow drip…very very slow drip’
*…’choices of danish or buttered roll’
*…’we offer a bottomless carafe’
*…’his mistress will get the usual tea bag’
*…’will that be for here or to go?’
*…’decaffeinated…you don’t want to be up throughout the afterlife’
*…’strange…he normally doesn’t have 2 viewings at home’
*…’pick up!…pick up for “DEAD GUY”…
*…’the usual…hot and black’

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