slude- You know the rice that is given to the family at the end of the funeral before the burial. I know it’s important to keep that rice and I guess you’re suppose to eventually cook and eat it? The morning of the burial someone had taken my dad’s truck so he told me to put it in my car. I was leaving to change, but my nieces went w/ me so one of them sat in the back and held on it so it wouldn’t spill. On my way back, it was only me and when I turned the corner, the bowl tipped over and most of the rice spilled onto the floor. I remember from my aunt’s funeral a few years back when they gave the rice to my cousins…the elder guys said for my cousins to take the rice and cook it b/c it’s koob hmoov. Anyways, when I got back to the funeral home, I told my dad that the rice spilled and asked if he still need it. He kind of freaked out saying “cov mov ntawd yuav muab mus ua noj hos, ua cas tseem txeej tag lawm thiab”. I told him I’d scoop it back up when we came back from the burial, but when I got back he had taken whatever was left in the bowl (which was not much). It’s been a week and the spilled rice is still on the floor in my car. I don’t know if I should vacuum it or try to save it b/c I won’t be going home until another week.
