We have an all-news station here in DC that does traffic and weather every 10 minutes. One of the traffic bits they reported to me at 5:38 was that a truck that had overturned around midnight had finally been set upright but that when it had it had split open spilling the 20,000 pounds of frozen vegetables it had been carrying.
Maryland state police were busy cleaning up the thawed vegetables and traffic on the Beltway was at a stand-still.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words but me, I’ve always been a fan of the radio drama. I’ve got this picture in my head of the state cops in their Smokey The Bear hats walking the road picking up bags of broccoli and peas and carrots.
I’m sure that the reality is no where as interesting as the image in my head of the trooper staggering under a load of frozen corn.