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My dad loves to enter contests. He’ll fill out entry forms for any contest that is giving away something free. His local newspaper recently began printing entry forms to win a free scooter and I was not surprised to learn that my dad was clipping them, filling them out, and mailing them in on a fairly regular basis. What I was surprised to learn is that this free scooter campaign was to promote breast cancer awareness and, as a result, the scooter is pink. Bright pink. VERY bright pink. But this didn’t seem to bother my dad, and he continued filling out and submitting entry forms anytime he found them in the newspaper.

Much to the amazement of my entire family, my father WON the bright pink scooter. And if that’s not surprising enough, he actually rides the bright pink scooter. All the time. Everywhere.

Now a man with less self confidence might hesitate to ride a bright pink scooter. But my dad has never lacked in the self confidence department. He scoots around on the highways on his bright pink scooter in his tennis shoes with his flannel shirt flapping like nobody’s business. He’s even had people slow down as they pass him to take pictures of him on their cell phones. I’m not sure I could blame them:

Is he not just the most precious thing you’ve ever seen?

Rock on daddy. Don’t let anyone tell you pink is not your color.

I love you.

Penny