Happy Birthday Mike!

(work) Mike doesn’t like pink shirts.

More specifically, he doesn’t think pink shirts should be worn on men. We’ve heard rants, we’ve heard raves – the message is clear: “No man should wear a pink shirt!”

With this knowledge in hand, a brilliant idea was hatched between conniving Krista and Palmer as we decided to go for the gold and pick up a pink shirt for Mike for his birthday.

But knowing very well that he would burned it with a magnifying glass under the sun, we had to think of an ingenious way to get him to accept it, and potentially wear it.

I felt like we were spies on a mission with the prep work that was done to it.

We mailed the shirt along with a nice note to his wife. In the note we asked his wife if she would be a kind soul and ensure that Mike wore the pink shirt on his birthday.

Sure enough, his birthday comes along and we receive an email saying “Thanks for this birthday gift. I can’t believe I’m wearing this shirt!”

Turns out that his wife (God bless her soul) washed and ironed it and said “Mike, can you wear something for me today?” and passed him the shirt. Awesome.

So here you have it – Mike in all his glory in his pink shirt. I’d like to also point out that he already spilled coffee on it in defiance of the monstrosity which adorned his hairy chest. I do enjoy the fact that he was getting compliments on it all day.

While I could have gone for a more vibrant colour, it is pink nonetheless and here is proof that Mike did indeed break his credo.