It’s Haul Your Weird Stuff on a Trailer Day
… or, apparently.
My commute this morning was greeted with three rather unusual cargo sights. If only I’d thought to bring a camera.
1) A flatbed truck was hauling the sign for the new airport parking lot. That might not seem too weird, signs and stuff being hauled about all the time I’m sure, but this sign happened to be a thirty-foot diameter, hockey-puck-shaped, lime-coloured, monstrosity of a green disc emblazoned with the words “Value Park” in a bold white font.
2) Another flatbed truck was hauling what appeared to be a piece of the International Space Station. Or, maybe some other complex bit of technology. Though given that we’re in the middle of oil-rig country, it probably had something to do with that and relatively very little to do with NASA. Though did anyone else see that bright light in the sky last… oh, never mind.
3) A third flatbed truck was hauling what appeared to be a menagerie of life-sized and over-sized plastic animals, roughly twenty-or-so total. That might not have been so weird if taking up the rear of the collection was a ten-foot tall white chicken staring me down as I drove.
Too funny! I would have liked to have seen that chicken!
You saw the chicken too! We saw it in Calgary a few days ago, southbound MacLeod turning into Shawnessy. We saw a smallish 80s motorhome pulling a trailer of large animals (plastic or wood?). The elk was brown and larger than life. The chicken was certainly something to behold. I wonder if it was the same shipment?
Number three is some of my eBay order. Let’s just say that I am going to have the best back yard ever this coming summer. You should see the shipping charges!
Oh great! Now I’m going to be giggling over the thought of the 10 foot chicken all day! :-D