2K views Nov 2008
A woman discusses making tiny coffins on a blind date, then learns her date is a midwife and discovers the baby in his stroller is a doll he uses to meet women.
0:20 So funny. You know, I, I always thought blind dates were a recipe for disaster, but this, this has been great. 0:29 I've had a great time too. 0:30 Yeah. You know, I got so caught up 0:33 Jeez. 0:34 in our Willa Cather debate earlier that I didn't even ask what you do for a living. 0:39 Oh, I make coffins. 0:41 Oh. 0:42 For babies. 0:46 Why for babies? 0:48 I just have a talent, you know, for making little pillows and little linings, little stitch work, tiny engravings of tiny names. Yes, sometimes they don't even have names yet, so I just put like, we will miss you, or why question mark, why question mark. 1:13 So you don't, you don't make coffins for adults? 1:18 Yeah, why don't you make coffins for adults? 1:22 My delicate hands are much better suited for the intricate work of tiny details. You know, in fact, just last week I made a beautiful inlaid 3 by 5 inch coffin for a couple in Delaware. And once wood gets over 3 feet long, it just becomes unwieldy, and I get frustrated, and, you know, frustration plus woodwork just equals injury. 1:52 Oh, um, doesn't it bother you to be around dead babies all day? 1:57 Yeah, you know, um, I think it'd pretty much freak me out to be around dead babies all day too. 2:03 No. No, I just pretend that they're... they're sleeping. And I get to dress them up in little, little suits and little dresses. And I get to, I get to put makeup on their little faces. You know, for parents that want open caskets. Sometimes parents want me to dress them up like lawyers or doctors. Dreams that'll never be realized. 2:41 How did you get into that line of work? 2:44 Well, my father was a doll maker, so... But enough about me. What do you do? 2:53 I'm a midwife. 2:54 Really? Oh, you should totally take my card. I also do cats, small dogs, guinea pigs. 3:10 Oh my God, your baby! 3:12 No, I don't need it. That's just a, uh, doll in the stroller. I use it to pick up chicks. 3:20 Shh. 
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