Real Men Wear Pink!

Some people are wondering why I would think that pink is the fastest colour. Believe it or not, my logic is not simply to agree with my sweetheart!

The pink obsession began several years ago when I first started my undergrad at the University of Waterloo, long before I met Amy. While participating in frosh week activities organized by the Engineering Department, my friend (new at the time) Kyle (Volfie) and I were placed on the same team for the events. Having no better way to divide and define the teams, the school went with colour groups, and having run out of primary colours like yellow, green, red, blue, and orange, Kyle and I found ourselves on the pink team.

The final event of frosh week was a Scunt (they weren't allowed to have a "scavenger hunt", so they changed the name ... would a rose by any other name still smell as sweet?!). Kyle and I heard a rumour floating around that teams could win bonus points for pulling off some sort of prank related to the Scunt, and so decided to ride bikes (we had to borrow) from the University of Waterloo to the University of Guelph (roughly 30 km - a daunting distance for two out-of-shape 19 year-olds who didn't even own bikes at the time). When we arrived at U of G wearing our pink t-shirts and engineering hard hats, we found our way into the girls' dorms and began knocking on doors asking for pink panties. Incredibly, the resounding majority of the girls were extremely co-operative and Kyle and I were able to return to Waterloo and present the "Scunt Gods" (read: senior students interested in making the frosh feel like idiots) with more than a dozen pairs of pink panties.

In the years that followed, Kyle and I continued to make jokes and give gifts related to the colour pink. When Kyle eventually became such a ridiculously good triathlete and qualified for the world championships as an age grouper, I gave him the gift of pink speed laces just before he went to the race and told him that pink was the fastest colour. Since then, pink has existed in my mind as the colour of fast!

Bringing the story full circle, what a surprise it was when I went to watch Amy race for the first time and she told me that her friend Sarah was going to have a fast race because she was borrowing Amy's pink toque. Because I so readily agreed that the pink toque would make Sarah faster, Amy thought I was ridiculing her. Little did she know that pink actually became the fastest colour 8 years ago, back in Southern Ontario! And Kyle still uses pink laces.

PS FROM AMY
This has only fostered my obsession with pink. I'm not one to go head to toe in pink but if the option for a little pink something is there I am all over it.