Innocent looking Christmas Tree
Ben Vitale
This Innocent looking Christmas tree is not so innocent! This
year our holiday season started out the way it should start, if we were in “Santaland.”
For the first time in over 50 years it
was snowing when we bought our Christmas tree! “Oh how Christmassy!” LOL! What
could be better than that? Snowing while buying a Christmas tree! Wow! My wife
Marie and I were wallowing in the spirit of Christmas, as we were buying our
Christmas tree! “It’s snowing!” “It’s snowing!”
When we decided which tree to buy, we called an attendant who
would normally wrap the tree and tie it on top of my car! As soon as we told
the attendant that we decided to buy one of his lovely 12 foot Christmas trees
I suddenly saw an expression that radiated fear, on the attendant face! He said…
“Oh … You are going to have to wait until the other men come back from lunch… I
can’t deal with that tree by myself! I then told the attendant that I could
help him! The attendant dropped the tree to the ground and we had to put the
Christmas tree on a rolling cart! To my amazement both of us could not lift the
tree onto the rolling cart… we had to slide it onto the cart! Hummm! In all of
the years that I have been on this planet, I have never seen or dealt with a
Christmas tree that was that heavy!
I asked the attendant why the tree was so heavy, and he told
me that the tree was full of ice and snow! I guessed that the tree that we had
just purchased weighed about 500 pounds! No wonder we couldn’t lift it! LOL!
After just a few minutes, the Christmas tree swat team came
back to work, after their lunch break! The task at hand is to get my Christmas tree
that was full of ice and snow, on top of my SUV! Thank God that I have roof
racks! LOL! The Christmas tree swat team
rolled the tree over to my car! Three muscle bound young man were needed to get
my Christmas tree on top of my SUV! As I watched I could see their arms trembling
from the heavy load, but they finally got it on top of my car!
The next task at hand was for two senior citizens to
duplicate the power and force of three young men! “Ya Kidding me!” LOL! Marie
and I had to use engineering techniques to, lift our Christmas tree! Please
look at photo number two and three… What is that strange rope hanging from the
back of the tree? To put it into simple terms, we needed the mechanical
advantage of a Block and Tackle, to get our Christmas Tree mounted in its
stand!
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