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And two years later...
After that horrible expedition in Wisconsin to find a x-mas tree in 3 degree weather, my family was driving home about a week and a half before Christmas from...who knows where, I can't remember. Anyways, we were all in my moms Lime Green Volkswagen Bug. An by we, I mean my father, who's 6'2 (driving), my younger brother, who's 6'4 ( front passenger seat) and of course my mother, 5'8, and myself, 5'5, are shoved in the back- and I being the smallest my family has seen, was stuck sitting behind my ogre known as my brother. So, us merry family, smushed in a tiny lime green car, one night drive past a x-mas tree lot inthe k-mart parking lot. And I, who thinks "Perfect, we have no tree yet, I can convince them to get one here, and I, then, do not have to freeze my a** off another winter"...And so comes the story. I speak up, "Hey let's get our tree here this year. I'm to lazy to go find a place to get a tree, and go cut it down. It'll be great! Look at all the pretty trees mommy!" Yes, I appealed to my mothers yearning for me to turn back into a 6 year old. It worked. Soon, we all spill out of my mothers car, and go searching for a tree in the k-mart parking lot. We find one, of course. The one guy that is working the shabby little lot, just happens to be this guy that is a ear older than me, that was in my German class in high school. It was awkward to say the least. I mean, I who was in my second year of college, and him- running a x-mas tree joint inthe k-mart parking lot. Just really bizarre. Well, we get this tree bundled up in that weird plastic crap, when we realize, there are to cable straps in my mom's bug- because she doesn't need, or use them to begin with; they're all dad's giant man truck. So what we end up doing, of course after piling back into the tiny vibrant colored car, is quite hilarious. My brother, who is like Sasquatch, holds the tree down by the trunk- get this- through the moon roof. All the way home- and it's not a small tree. I can just say one thing, despite it being extremely strange and embarrassing- it was worth not having to go on a freezing adventure in the frozen tundra of death known as Wisconsin. (I live in Chicagoland...so Wisconsin is like an alien planet)
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