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Upon her yearly visit to her grandparents’ house in Upstate New York, Shayna Dupaque learned of her grandparents’ death the tough way when she encountered their post-mortem pop up estate sale.
“I didn’t know Grammy and Pop Pop had died until I pulled up their driveway and the house was full of people paying with cash or check for our family heirlooms,” said Dupaque, dodging estate-sale goers carrying away Dupaque’s childhood stuffed animals they bought at a bargain price. “When a middle-aged woman dragged away Pop Pop’s beloved 1892 Steinway grand piano, that’s when I realized they must be dead.”
“I was all bummed out, and I just wanted to reminisce over Grammy’s family photo albums when I was blocked by this short old woman demanding I pay $20 for the lot of albums,” said Dupaque, who was quickly out-priced by an old man in a wheelchair willing to pay $20.50 for the lot. “I can’t figure out what I’m more insulted by, the fact that no one told me they had died before they sold everything off or the fact that Grammy and Pop Pop didn’t leave anything to our family in the will.”
At press time, Dupaque only learned of her childhood dog’s passing when she came home to find her parents had replaced it with a puppy.
