It seemed like a good idea at the time

Dear dad with "Dirty Soul" tattooed on either side of your neck in turquoise ink:

I appreciate the fact that as you dressed to come to your kid's school carnival, you matched your polo shirt to your prison tats and threw in the madras shorts to further establish yourself as an entirely different type of D-bag from the kind you used to be, yet recognized that adding a backwards baseball cap to the ensemble would be gilding the lily.