An inexperienced preacher was to hold a graveside burial service at a pauper's cemetery

for an indigent man
with no family or friends. Not knowing where the
cemetery was, he made several wrong turns and got
lost. When he eventually arrived an hour late, the hearse
was nowhere in sight, the backhoe was next to the open
hole, and the workmen were sitting under a tree eating
lunch.
The diligent young pastor went to the open grave
and found the vault lid already in place. Feeling guilty
because of his tardiness, he preached an impassioned
and lengthy service, sending the deceased to the great
beyond in style.
As he returned to his car, he overheard one of the
workman say to the other, "I've been putting in septic
tanks for twenty years and I ain't never seen anything
like that."