Redneck, Funeral or Both?

Just when you think you have seen it all, something comes along to surprise you.

I have often thought why do so many people have trucks and never haul anything in the back?

Some of the nowadays trucks are fancy with all the bells and whistles, but there are some that just chug down the road with a trail of black smoke.

Did you ever notice what people have in the back of their trucks? I guess the reason I notice what’s back there is I drive so slow I am always behind one of them.

Now the fancy trucks have truck bed covers either made of leatherette or some type of plastic, so you never know what they have hidden.

Then, there are the others trucks that haul old plastic bags of whatever and the bags are beginning to fly up into the air as they mosey down the highway. I have seen dogs weaving back and forth in the back of trucks, one was putting his whole head into the sliding window behind the driver, sort of like a canine back seat driver.

Of course, there are the serious haulers, their truck beds full of work equipment, that makes sense. But to have nothing like most????

Well, this past week I finally saw the best thing I have ever seen in the back of a truck. Driving along I saw blue lights flashing up ahead, because it is the law I moved to the next lane, but had to really slow down to see why the officer had pulled this truck driver over.

There, tailgate down, lots of pieces of aluminum was sticking out and over to one side of this mangled mess was a coffin. It was a shiny, new looking coffin, not like it had been dug up. I am not sure if it is against the laws of the land to carry a coffin in the back of your truck, but I am sure it was a good story. What police officer could resist stopping this guy?

I wanted to stop and ask just what the heck was going on, but said to myself, “You know this is one time, you should just keep on going down the road.” Could it have been he was on his way to an el cheapo burial in the future? Was it his mama back there taking her to the final family resting place? Was this the ultimate redneck funeral procession? Did he buy it at a garage sale or funeral home auction? Did he think he could sell it at the scrap yard? When you see something like that, your mind goes crazy with ideas, yeh, crazy ideas.

As I have not seen this story on the news media, I suppose its one of those mysteries that will remain a mystery.

So, in the meantime, just keep on trucking and keep a watch out for that coffin carrier! This story would make a great country music song. Yee-haw.