Different ideas on how to get a tree home

Today, my dad and I went to get a christmas tree for our house. Despite the fact it was an extremely cold day, we went unprepared. We picked out a tree at Bud's Tree Farm, a fairly nice non charliebrown looking one that satisfied our wanting, and brought it to the shed to buy it. well a couple of my colleageus (actually fellow classmates) were there to shake the needles out of it. They brought it to our car and watched as my dad and I realized we didn't have anything to tie it down with. We drove a car there. They stood watching us as my dad pulled out some jumper cables and an old cow halter. My dad put the positive and negative charge to one end and the halter at the other. When finished, my dad was quite satisfied with the makeshift device, he said that people in Florida could not have done it (never gets cold there so not really a need for jumper cables). So we drove home with our makeshift securing device holding the tree horizantally in our trunk. So remember, jumper cables can be used for many different reasons, so always have them in your trunk. Oh, and a halter wouldn't hurt.