This Girl Who Dressed as Ranch Dressing for School Is an Inspiration
While the rest of Brandon Valley High School wore flannel shirts and cowboy hats for “Ranch Day,” one girl interpreted the theme a little differently. Carson Haase showed up as a bottle of Hidden Valley Ranch dressing during homecoming week, earning her the nickname “Ranch Girl.”
It was ranch day today… pic.twitter.com/JvhEV02p16
— carś (@CarsonHaase) September 20, 2016
Obviously the teenager has a great sense of humor, her inspiration for dressing like, well, salad dressing came from a pretty unfunny place. Haase’s friend Brittany Corcoran recently committed suicide, and the death taught the 17-year-old to live in the moment. “She taught me a lot of things,” the high school senior told the Argus Leader. “How to be strong in bad situations [and] that it honestly doesn’t matter what people thought because there will always be people that like you anyway.”
Haase’s handmade costume was a hit at her South Dakota school, but when she posted photos from the day to social media, that’s when the response got really overwhelming. Not only was a tweet with a photo of her in the cardboard look with some overall-clad friends liked nearly 3,000 times and retweeted by more than 800 users, it also got the meme treatment and was shared on sites including Reddit, Instagram, Imgur, and Facebook (one post by Men’s Humor received more than 111,000 shares). Haase’s grandmother was even one of the commenters and wrote that Haase is charitable, participating in walks for suicide prevention and Alzheimer’s, and also does hands-on dog rescue, in addition to being an A student. “So proud of her — everyone should be so lucky to have a friend like her!!!” she shared. “Gifted!!!”
still can’t believe I won homecoming queen because of a T-Rex costume ???????????? pic.twitter.com/2MQqz1L3Y8
— Sarah (@sarahmac2859) September 10, 2016
Haase is just one of many young, confident women to wear unique costumes to much Internet — and real-life — acclaim. Sarah MacDonald wore an inflatable Tyrannosaurus rex costume to her Spirit Day assembly, where she was crowned homecoming queen. Then there was the little girl who showed up to Princess Day at dance class dressed as a hot dog.
No parent is ready to learn that their daughter is trending… #hotdogprincess Best part is it was all her idea! pic.twitter.com/YBmUkRoj4y
— Brandon E Turner (@turnerbrandon) June 2, 2016
To paraphrase Mahatma Gandhi: Be the ranch dressing, dinosaur, or hot dog princess you want to see in the world.
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