Day 12 (proving the Blanche Dubois theory)

Well today we did the Pink Heals Tour version of trolling.  We went to the local mall, set up in a corner of the parking lot and let the pink fire trucks do what they do best.  Draw attention.  

People are, oddly enough, attracted to our vehicles.  Who knew, right?  Among the people to stop by and see us was the wife of the mayor of Billings, a lovely woman named Robin.  She signed our truck in memory of her Mom and Dave had a really nice chat with her, telling her who we are and what we do.  We also spoke to some guys from the Billings FD about getting a chapter started up out here.

Reporters came by from the two local TV stations as well as one from the local public radio station.  All-in-all it was a really nice day for something pretty much spontaneous.  We even made contact with the local cancer care center and swung by for a visit.  Most of their patients had left for the day, but they also have a center in Butte (next town we visit) and we made arrangements to stop in there.  Like I keep saying, kindness of strangers...

Occasionally when we have a little idle time we may do strange things like, for example...

But we also do what we're best at, like this...

That's John from OK talking with a woman fighting breast cancer, and her daughter.  It's funny how much of a hold Komen has on the color pink.  The vast majority assumes we're only about breast cancer because of the color. 

We're about so much more.  We're really focusing on keeping money raised in the community where it's raised, whether it's city, county or state, it needs to be easily accessible for the people that need it where and when they need it.  That's why we don't take donations.  we want people to give their money to a local entity so it gets to the person on the next block that can't make a car payment because the chemo makes them too sick to go to work

OK, I'm off my soapbox, for now at least.

On to the next installment of meet you Pink Heals Tour driver!  Today it's Mike from FL.  Mike went home today, and I'm bummed to see him go.  And I'm even more bummed since I realized I don't have a picture of Mike to share with the class...  Mike came on tour last year for 18 days and this time around filled the role of bus driver/special assistant to Dave.  He's a really good dude and I enjoyed working with him and chatting with him.  

We leave in the morning for Butte, so until tomorrow...

Pink Heals!

Peace