Sunday, June 6, 2010

Little Old Ladies Laugh At The Secret Service...

  So whilst I was on hiatus from Sawdust and Cowpies, the Bama came to town bringing a whole tribe of confusion and chaos to our little community for... hell I don't know why.  He was here, visited the ethanol plant down the road from me, spun around in circles, spent a veritable shitload of your money, ate at a diner, schlepped around the area, got back on the Bama plane and took a vacation.

  Oh wait, here's a pic of him at the little diner over in Monroe City that he stopped and was just "one of the guys" and ate at.   That's "one of the guys" if one of the guys happens to travel with a half dozen black Suburbans, another 8 or 9 white GM vans, a plethora of Missouri Highway Patrolmen, MODOT employees, a couple 3 dozen sheriff deputies, a bomb disposal unit (yes... a bomb disposal unit) and untold dozens of Secret Service and FBI lurking in the bushes and trees along his route.   So... just like one of the guys, he gets some food at some diner that I can't remember the name of and someone snapped this totally awesome pic of him with a local dude giving him the bunny ears....




  Does that freakin' rock or what?  Yeah it didn't make it into mainstream media.  :-)

Okay so on with my story.   So they shut down miles and miles of highway, cost $26,000 per mile of highway that he traveled by car (true fact... that'll piss you off eh?) The security around here was ridiculous 'cause I hear his approval rating is like the lowest of any president in just about ever.  When folks don't like the pres I guess they spend a lot more time and money keeping him all comfy and stuff.  

Anyhow my mom and my aunt decided they were gonna drive over to highway 36 and wave at the president as he drove by.  Yes.   So they hit 'bout 10 backroads and launched out on a very very empty, desolate, traffic devoid strip of highway 36.   About a mile or two of driving and being the only vehicle in either the East or Westbound lanes a MO State Trooper pulls up behind 'em.  Lights blazing, siren on... the works, and he pulls over these two little gray haired ladies in the powder blue Lincoln Continental and asks them what the heck they think they're doing.   They replied "We just want to see Obama"  The trooper asks them "How in the name of God did you even get on the highway?"   They told him they took some back roads and kinda came out on a farm road and voila, there they are. 

Welp, neither my Mother nor my Aunt went to jail or anything, thank goodness, but they did get a very VERY personal escort up to highway K and headed back towards home.  Funny part of this, we didn't know anything about it for a few days, neither one of 'em fessed up right away to what they'd done, but Sally saw "A car that looked just like your Mom and Dad's Lincoln" getting headed up a very lonely highway by a cop.

Eh well... Good deal we threw down all that money for security huh? 

Lordy....





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8 comments:

The Retired One said...

Hilarious! Reminds me of the time I took the wrong turn into the Des Moines airport because of construction ahead...ended up on the far end of the fenced off runway...I look ahead and there (and I'm not lying) was AIR FORCE ONE airplane and two military men with GUNS and a jeep blocking the road. They made me get out of the car, searched me, the car, the trunk and asked why I was in the boonies at the end of some God-forsaken runway..did I know the President's plane was there? (It was Pres.Bush, then). I said I had no idea, I was just trying to get to the airport and there was construction blocking the main entrance. They got on the radios and checked and then let me go....whew!!!! It was shortly after 9-11, so everybody was very nervous.

mrscravitz said...

Oh this is to funny! Love it!

Vicky said...

Too funny! Gotta watch out for those little ole terrorist ladies!

Michael in AZ said...

Glad this didn't end with you making a trip to Gitmo to bail them out.

ahr8tch said...

That is the best freakin' picture of the abomination that I've ever seen - includin' the nekkid pictures of his momma!

As for the little ole ladies, well, "Bless their little hearts!"

Jerry said...

They probably have a Secret Service tail now, you know. And an FBI file. LMAO!!

Unknown said...

THAT IS HYSTERICAL...

Cynthia L. H. said...

Love it!!! ;^) ;^) ;^)
Little Old Ladies With Some Grit!!!
;^)
(Yeah, and probably an FBI file, too...) Gotta watch out for those baby blue Lincoln's.
;^0