Breakfast in Cairo

It's strange to have made this trip enough times that we have favorite places to stop along the way. Since we leave Pittsburgh in the evening we tend to need breakfast right about Cairo Illinois. I try to eat healthily but I really look forward to "my" biscuit sandwich at the "Cairo Truckstop." The same woman is at the counter each morning we visit. I've never seen the cook nor have I ever heard a single sound come through the little window connecting the counter area to the kitchen. After my order is taken I go to the cashier and pay then take coffee out to My Beloved. By the time I return breakfast is in a brown paper bag on the counter and I grab it like it's a bag of dope and scoot out to the car to wolf it down. This visit My Beloved noticed a puzzling sign. It read "Escorts Available." We agreed immediately that the most obvious interpretation of this sign was the least probable. We were miles down the road before we realized that the escorts in question were those cars that precede and follow wide loads and slow moving trucks.