Pink Car for the Cure
Wow, what a cool supportive husband this guy is! A PINK CAR! that is so adorable…
the story:
It takes a special kind of man to drive a hot pink car with butterflies and lady bugs.
Shawn Pilkington didn’t lose a bet. He won the love of a woman, his wife Kelly, who won her own battle with breast cancer.
“Oh I’ll never forget the first two weeks”, Shawn said. “I didn’t think about the year later, I thought about the first part. If she could possibly die from this.”
Their 9-year-old daughter Emma remembers the pointing and stares when her mom lost her hair.
“It made me feel bad for my mom because no one should go through that, you know.”
The Pilkingtons pulled together.
“Shawn was great. He waited on me hand and foot when I was going through all that,” said Kelly.
Shawn said, “She sometimes would say, ‘Stop I’m fine,’ ’cause I was over the top when she came home at first. I was like, what can I do, what can I do, what can I do?”
Then one day it hit him. Why not turn his next company car into a campaign for the cure? Of course it doesn’t hurt that he’s an exterminator. The hood of the car reads “Universal Supports The Extermination of Breast Cancer.”
Emma thinks it’s pretty cool and others seem to agree.
“Just driving here, the school bus and the kids were smiling and pointing and the thumbs up at the stop lights,” said Shawn.
Emma doesn’t mind these new stares.
“I think it’s good we’re showing about breast cancer and people should find out about it.”
And if just one person does, then the Pilkingtons say they will have accomplished what they set out to do.
I can only imagine the looks you get driving a pink car like that, too cute!
