Parents have many jobs: teach us lessons about life, help us heal in times of need, give us wake up calls when we need them most (both physical and mental wake up calls), love us, care for us and completely mortify us.
Let’s state the obvious: People have children, solely to embarrass the living hell out of them.
This seems to be the case for Dale Price.
I know that over the years, there are plenty of things my parents have done to embarrass me, many which I choose not to remember. However, America
Rain Price has never had his school bus come down his own street. For whatever reason, the pick up and drop off locations never allowed the bus to pass his house, until his sophomore year of high school. “The bus route changed,” Rain’s father, Dale explained on Good Morning America. “For the first time it came down our street, so we (my wife and I) went out to wave.”
But when Dale overheard his son telling his Mom to “PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, don’t let Dad go back out there”, Dale knew it was time to shake things up a bit.
And that was the beginning.
For 170 days, Rain’s bus went past his house and every single one of those 170 days, Dale was outside waving to Rain in a different, ridiculous costume.
Bat girl, Santa, Lady Gaga, a ninja, a princess, a referee, a lamp shade, Wonder Woman…you name it, Dale Price wore it. See the video below for a FULL montage of Dale's fabulous costumes.
Needless to say, Rain lived (through the humiliation) to tell about his Dad's wild attempt to make him pay for his "Please don't let Dad do that again" comment.
So in lieu of the upcoming Father's Day, I salute you, Dale Price! You may be the world's most embarrassing father, but you're the most ballsy, awesome guy I've never met and I hope you have the best Father's Day ever! You deserve it. (Let's just hope for Rain's sake, you don't get anymore costumes.)
Check out the Price family's blog Wave at the Bus or hear their story in it's entirety on Good Morning America.
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