Driving down I35 this morning. Up ahead I see flashing reds from multiple vehicles moving along as well. Wonder what all this is about I think to myself. They are moving at almost the same speed I am, so it takes 10 minutes or so to catch up to them. As I'm catching up to them, it's becoming more and more apparent that this is a convoy of somesort, as there's 2 18 wheelers and multiple passenger vehicles between them with their flashers on.
As I come up on the trailing vehicle, it's a 3/4 ton RAM pickup with "Law Enforcement" as the only identifying mark on the back, there's 2 dudes in it. I pass it, the door sign indicates it's a USDA vehicle. WTF. Did the corn not want to get harvested and tried to start a revolution or something?
I then pass 4-5 more pickups, all with multiple passengers, all with USDA markings on them. Jeepers I thought, what did Monsanto come up with this time? Children of the Corn?
Then I start smelling it. The aroma of fresh cut pine. And I see pine boughs stacked in one of the semis. Ah...It's the National Christmas Tree! Cool I thought. Then I passed the lead truck, another USDA labeled Law Enforcement vehicle.
Then I thought to myself...Really? They need a convoy of 6 vehicles to escort a friggen tree to Washington? Was there a terroristic threat against a tree? What a waist.