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TIFU by playing music on Amazon Alexa for my kids and ruining my husband's great aunt's burial.

Tl;dr by accident I made my husbands loud speaker blast "what you know bout rollin down in the deep", five times, while his aunt's casket was being lowered into the ground.

Outside of typical tifu fashion, this actually just happened and now I'm terrified to see my in laws again.

Our house has been an absolute WRECK ever since Christmas and today I decided to remedy that. My husband on the otherhand had to attend the funeral of his great Aunt who just passed from covid (the second great aunt in a month).

I'm in my grind and my teenage attitude 6 year old is whining because she is just sooooooo bored and doesn't want to play with her 2yr old brother or watch tv or play with the million other things she got over the holidays.

I'm elbows deep in the dirty dish mountain and I've had enough and ask what she wants me to do about her severe boredom. She says she wants to listen to music, specifically one song that she has been obsessed with recently.

It seems no matter how old your kid is, the tiktok and youtube videos invade their lives. I've just resigned myself to keep an eye and keep out anything graphic or vulgar. Those videos are where this song comes from.

Anyways, I typically connect my phone via bluetooth to alexa at our house because she is technically connected to my husband's amazon account which does wonky things on his phone sometimes when I just use voice control and he's not home. This time I said screw it because I didn't feel like washing and drying my hands to connect to bluetooth, etc.

"Alexa, play Astronaut in the Ocean!!!!!!" I scream so that b*tch will hear and correctly understand me. Song starts playing, and right after the first drop of "what you know about rollin down in the deep, when your brain goes numb" the song cuts off.

Damn. So I yell for her to play it again. Same thing happens. Then again. And a final time for good measure. No dice. Wth?

I give up and resign myself to turn on my bluetooth, continue with my dishes, and go about my other cleaning in semi peace.

Not too long after, my husband gives me a call. He's on the way home and seems a little bit upset/annoyed. I ask what's wrong because he knew his aunt but wasn't in any way close with her. He just simply asked "did you all enjoy your dance party?"

Weird of him to ask post funeral but "yeah it kept the kids occupied while I was....." OH. MY GOD.

One of those wonky things alexa does that didn't cross my mind is sometimes instead of playing music out of her own speaker when asked, she will play it out of his phone.

His phone was connected to a wireless bluetooth speaker that was in our car temporarily because our speakers are having an electrical issue. He often leaves a window or two down in the car. The burial plot was near the drive area where our car happened to be parked.

"WHAT YOU KNOW BOUT ROLLIN DOWN IN THE DEEP" blasted MULTIPLE TIMES while her casket was being lowered into the ground. Each time he stopped it, it would start again immediately... FIVE TIMES.

His grandmother and father cried and he got majorly bitched at.

Everyone understands it was a very unfortunate timing mistake but they're still not very happy about it.

I guess I'm going to have to go live under a rock now. Wish me luck.

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