Norris Cole, a long-time character on Coronation Street, had the final laugh at his own burial tonight (September 24).
While Audrey Roberts, Gail Platt, and Mary Taylor handed around a hip flask filled with tequila to Weatherfield’s mourners gathered inside the church, vicar Billy Mayhew began the service.
What is their reason for doing so? In case everything went wrong.
Following Rita Sullivan’s moving eulogy, Billy revealed that Norris had written a letter to Roy Cropper, which he would read at the ceremony.
Norris intended to stir the pot from beyond the dead. It had been reported that The Kabin’s paperboy had a secret inside of him, but that was just the tip of the iceberg.
He ended the message by admitting the truth regarding Rita’s hair color treatment: she’d employed Claudia Colby instead of Audrey, her longtime hairdresser, without Audrey’s knowledge.
Audrey became somewhat inebriated and accused her buddy of treachery.
Following Audrey and Rita’s altercation, the wake began with an uncomfortable atmosphere.
Everyone outside The Kabin was eager to learn the mystery of the paperboy, which Mary had equated to an Indiana Jones plot earlier.
It was hard to open, so Mary went to get a chainsaw to decapitate him with, but the funeral attendees only discovered air.
Norris had always disliked the stand, and persuading his neighbours and friends to destroy it was his ultimate act of mischief, according to Freda Burgess.
Isn’t there nothing like a wild goose hunt to commemorate someone’s death?