May 3, 2010
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A questionable motorcade
On Friday, I was driving north on the highway near my house to go to a ladies retreat for our congregation. It was in another city. I had just entered the highway and was merging off the ramp into the lanes when I noticed a motorcycle cop with his lights on between two of the concrete barriers that divide the road in the middle. I thought it was an odd place to have a speed trap and he wasn’t really inconspicuous with his lights on. Weird. I drove a little bit more and saw another motorcycle cop in the same kind of gap in the barriers with his lights on too. Very weird!
Then, I saw a pack of motorcycle cops driving down the road with lights flashing (they were going south). I would venture to guess 15-20 motorcycle cops with lights flashing followed by two black cars with tinted windows and small flags on the hood flapping in the wind. Next there were about 4 SUV’s with tinted windows all driven by men in black suits and sunglasses. At the very end was an ambulance with lights flashing.
Obviously, there was someone important on the other side of the highway from me. I initially thought it was the president, but I never saw a presidential logo. Then there was the ambulance. That really threw me. What kind of motorcade has an ambulance?? I thought perhaps the Attorney General, but then the ambulance would need to be at the front of the motorcade with the black cars with flags chasing behind it. HA! That made me laugh out loud when I thought of that. Not the governor, He doesn’t get that kind of attention I don’t think. Well whoever it was, they certainly had an interesting motorcade.
I got to my retreat and told someone what I had seen and they suggested it was the Vice President because he was in the area to see something with Green energy or … I have no idea. But, the ambulance still is strange. I can’t figure why they need an ambulance in the motorcade.
Then during the retreat, we had a break for a few minutes to stretch our legs or go to the restroom and guess who was standing out in the hall with a swarm of secret service men taking photos? Colin Powell. There was much excitement among our ladies. I did not see him, but I did see all sorts of secret service men in the hotel during the weekend. I doubt it was his motorcade I passed. They were going the opposite direction as me.
So…. who has a theory on why a motorcade for someone that needs police escorts, flags on their car and dark windows would need to bring along an ambulance?
Have a happy day!
Comments (7)
Great, you need some excitement in your life…but not traffic jams.
I can’t imagine why the ambulance was there but I have a lot of respect for Colin Powell. Maybe the motorcade was going in the opposite direction because they were lost! Maybe it was a diversion…Maybe you should ask Miss Smarty Pants. She seems to know everything.
Maybe the person in the black cars were more important…??? and the abulance couldn’t go around them.
or maybe someone in the group had needed oxygen and choose to ride in the ambulance. ….
Hope your ladies time together was good!
I don’t get the punch line to your joke. Does it have something to do with peanut butter and jelly? I am not following this blog very clearly. You say there were licorice limosines, and peppermint police cars, but I don’t see how the strawberry, blueberry and vanilla ice cream comes into play. Maybe it was the part about the 4 suns ultraviolet rays that threw me.
Do want to know what really baffles me, is that I have 425 Xanga friends to visit and I wasted three whole, ok I don’t type that fast, seven whole minutes sitting here trying to figure out your punchline.
Now 7 of my friends won’t Ok 8 (the clock just keeps ticking) won’t have the honor of having me leave them a super brilliant, keen, insightfull comment. I will probably have to leave them a plain old smiley or something.
@dingdongdingbat - Hi mom!
@Aloysius_son - Isn’t it past your bedtime?
@Aloysius_son - Punchline? That is over at the drink table silly. Next to the tray of cookies.