Today I was driving out of Houston on the freeway. I was cruising along at about 70 mph in the right hand lane. A truck eased up beside me in the left lane. I glanced over at it as it got level with my vehicle. It was an Old Guy with a cowboy hat on and he was smoking a pipe. But not just any pipe. This pipe was bigger than normal, everyday pipes. It was quite ornate and looked like something out of old-world Germany and it was about three times the size of a normal pipe.

In a moment a Texas State Trooper car with all lights on and every siren blaring came up behind the Old Guy. But the Old Guy didn't speed up, slow down, or in anyway show that he knew they were back there. After a minute of this, I slowed down and eased back so the trooper car could maybe get in my lane and go around. I didn't know if they were trying to stop the Old Guy or not.

The trooper car came up alongside me and I looked over at it. The car was filled with troopers. There were two officers in the front seat and two officers in the back. I think that is all that will fit into one of those cars since Texas troopers wear large cowboy-style hats. It looked unusual because the troopers around here usually only have one officer per car. I guess they decided to carpool today and save the taxpayers some gas money. The two troopers on the passenger side of the car both turned their heads and looked right at me. I smiled. One of them tipped his hat at me. You can't say the state troopers aren't polite in Texas!

The trooper car then passes me and starts to move into the lane right in front of me. All this time the sirens are going crazy and lights are flashing on their car. Just as they start to change lanes, the Old Guy finally sees them behind him. So he eases over into the lane in front of me. It takes him an inordinate amount of time to complete this maneuver considering he was going about 70 mph also.

The trooper car swerves back into the left lane and finally passes the Old Guy. As they pull alongside his truck, the Old Guy takes the pipe out of his mouth and uses it to wave at them. They actually waved back! And then they took off down the freeway at a really fast speed. A few miles down the road I come up on them. They have a car pulled to the side of the road and they are all four out of the car and speaking to the driver of that car. I wish I knew what all that was about. I am crazy curious about some things and I want to know just why so many state troopers were crammed into one car like clowns at a circus.