Heh. My grandma bought her plot next to her husband when she was widowed at 28. The stone said 1931-19__
Boy was she pissed when she realized she got bamboozled and had to pay to have it switched to a 20__. She died in 2005.
My family is so "thrifty" that in such a case the stone would read "1931-1999+6."
Don't forget that you pay by the character, so that "+6" will cost you extra.
Heh. I assumed correcting the "19" to "20" would cost more.
Normally, I'd have made the same assumption--but now I've paid for a headstone. We opted to omit my mother's middle initial and the period, because the cost of including them was so out of synch with the work required to engrave them that we knew that our mother would come back and haunt us if we'd spent the money. We also left the periods off the abbreviations of her birth and death months. True story.
(Seriously, though, I'm sure you're right.)
