Betty and Whitney's Feet: You Never Saw Them In the Same Room

I heard today that the National Enquirer put a picture of Whitney Houston in her casket on the cover of their "newspaper"  Well, I think this is completely distasteful, disrespectful, and in very bad taste.  Which is exactly the reason why I HAD to go look at it. 

First of all, I have to say that she looked "real natural".  Quite pretty, at that. She had a lovely updo and her make up was perfection. (shimmery eyeshadow on a corpse is always risky, but she pulled it off). She had a nice pleasant smile on her face. (rare for a corpse, because their mouths usually droop)  The headlines on the cover stated that she wore her favorite purple dress and thousands of dollars of jewelry. And it said that she wore gold slippers on her feet.

Which brings me to Betty. Before she passed away she had planned out every detail for her viewing. She had picked  out her own casket (a nice, but modest Church of Christ gray). She picked out her dress and had hung it in her closet with a towel around the shoulders so it wouldn't have clothes hanger marks on it. She had not picked out jewelry, so like Whitney, we put tens of dollars of jewelry on her. But, because great minds think alike, like Whitney, Betty insisted that she wore her gold metallic slippers from the Walmarts. She said, "when I walk the streets of gold up in heaven, I want to be wearing my gold slippers." So, gold slippers it was.

Now I am not saying that Betty and Whitney had much in common. (Except perhaps the fact that towards the end they both took a lot of pills) Betty could NOT sing. Betty was NOT Black. Betty did NOT marry a man that got her hooked on drugs. And Betty did NOT have a cousin who had physic friends.  But, Betty had some gold slippers, just like Whitney. And if the rumors about Whitney's financial situation are true, I bet hers were from the Walmarts, too.

Betty's comments from Heaven: "She 's a pretty black girl, but I don't know why they had to put so much make up on her". And she would add: "She didn't have any jewelry on when she got here. I bet someone stole it".