Posted on 06/07/2011 8:08:49 AM PDT by bagadonutz
It can be embarrassing when your parents wave you off to school, but you have to feel especially sorry for 15-year-old Rain Price, whose father insists on dressing in a different comical outfit every day. Dale Price has adopted 170 wacky costumes to see off the school bus as it passes the family home in American Fork, Utah.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
That must be an extremely close knit provincial community, because I find it to be kind of weird.
I’m surprised anyone finds this unusual since this is about the 15th time it’s been posted here in the last week.
I thought this was a cute story the first time it was posted.
These parents seem hell-bent on raising a metrosexual wuss. This kid's gonna keep some psychiatrist very well-off.
It’s a cute story but I can’t past the fact that they named their boys Rain and Riot. Good lord.....
OK - so I searched for ‘wave’ and ‘bus’ in title and came up with nothing. So if I offended you by posting again in the words of Steve Martin —— “EXCUUUUUSE MEEEEEEEE!”
bttt
Not much info in the link, but I have to wonder - how does dad have time for this? Does he not have a job?
One of the pics states he lost his leg 30 years ago in a cycle accident and he’s a stay at home Dad now.
here’s a better, longer, report on the story
http://www.cbc.ca/news/offbeat/story/2011/06/06/dress-up-dad.html
I hadn’t seen it prior to your posting, and, to be honest, I wish I would have thought of something so creative many years ago. (Mom always told me I have a mean streak—snorkle-chortle!)
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