My dad looks like Mark Martin. No, really he does.
Ever so often, usually during the height of the NASCAR season someone stops my dad and says "Do you know who you look like?"
I imagine he blushes and says "Um. . . yeah." because that's my dad -- he's a pretty humble guy.
The other day my dad was delivering blocks for the construction supply company he works for. The client came out and said "Do you know who you look like?"
He then proceeded to have his wife video tape my dad while Dad unloaded concrete blocks.
The guy decided he wanted a photograph with my dad and pulled out a green camoflauge hat with a Chevy logo on it for dad to wear. He also leaned closed to my dad and said "You're not as wrinkled as Mark is though," which is funny because my dad is actually 12 years older than Mark.
That night I held my own photo shoot with dad who said he felt "silly" posing for photographs.
So, what do you think? Doesn't he look like Mark? Just a little?
I work for a newspaper and on Aug. 10 Mark Martin is going to be racing at Watkins Glen. I'm going to try my hardest to find a way to get up there (even though our sports editor already has someone going up to take photos for him) and get a photo of Mark Martin with my dad. Wouldn't that, seriously, be the coolest thing ever?
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