“I don’t know what it is, but it’s coming up behind us!” Alan’s voice rose.
He is the husband of my cousin and best friend Lynda. A few years ago, they had an extra ticket to the Smokies game. She called and asked if I wanted to go. Does the sun come up? Of course I wanted to go. She and her family stopped by and picked me up on the way to the game. I sat in the back with their son Clark.
When Alan made his announcement, we were driving east on I-40. Naturally we turned back and looked into the traffic behind us. As for me, all I saw were a mass of cars.
“I see it!” Clark pointed. “It’s a car with antlers.”
That’s when I saw it. Yep, Clark was right, the car appeared to have antlers. I’m not talking about the cute ones people put on their cars during Christmas. These antlers were huge.
In fact, they resembled large wings from the distance.
Wouldn’t it be cool to be able to deploy wings and fly over the traffic?
Of course, that wasn’t the case here. Whatever it was, it was mysterious and fascinating. I had to know what was going on with that car.
Lynda and Clark must’ve had the same thought because we all yelled at Alan: “Slow down! We want to see it!” Being the nice man Alan he is, he slowed down.
I have to admit, I enjoyed the anticipation as the strange antlered car neared.
As it drove by, I could see something huge attached to the back of it. My first initial reaction was that it was some kind of large boot, but that wasn’t it all.
“It’s a moose head!” Alan announced. “And it’s covered in duct tape.”
Sure enough, he was right. I was initially thrown off by all of the duct tape wrapped around it. As you can see in the picture, the antlers were the only things not covered in it. It looked like a moose mummy. Too bad the Egyptians didn’t have duct tape to use on their mummies.
“Get your cameras ready,” Alan told us. “I’m catching back up with it.”
Immediately, Lynda and I took out our cells phones and began to take pictures. And you know what? The guy driving the antlered moose mummy car became angry. Seriously?
Think about it. He was traveling with a duct taped moose head attached onto the back of his very small car. Maybe that is common where he is from, but here in East Tennessee, we don’t see something like that every day. You know, he might as well have had a big flashing neon sign on his car: “Lookie here, you all!”
We laughed and laughed at that. I felt as if God had blessed us with seeing it.
“Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.” Job 8:21 (KJV)
I blackened out the license plate in the picture, but the car was from a midwestern state. We wondered if this guy was taking his moose trophy to show off to somebody else. He would have to have stopped somewhere and spent the night. Did he “untape” the moose mummy from his car and take it in the hotel with him so nobody would steal it? Did he have to get a room for two? You know, I don’t even know if the moose head would fit through a regular sized door.
At least he didn’t try to use it as hood ornament.