Dumbest question ever?

They wanted to interview me before I could get a bank loan.

The woman on the other side of the mohagony desk asked just one thing:

"If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?"

I said that I'd be a hurricane tree, one of those ones that makes hurricanes, with hovering helium eyes floating above the branches, attached by strings. I didn't get the loan - apparently, the right answer was "an oak because I am very dependable."

If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?