Hot-pink pump -- so you don't back into it

I love this picture. I can't quite remember what's going on here, but that's my uncle explaining to my mother why his daughter, my cousin Andrea, came home to her house one day to find the pump painted a shocking shade of neon pink. "So you won't back into it when you're pulling out of your driveway! You'll be able to see it!" my uncle explained to her, when she called him to ask how the hell her white pump ended up looking so ridiculous. He repainted it, but that neon is hard to conceal, so it's sort of a pale pink, as you can barely see here. That stick he's holding is the color he'd chosen for the eye-catching makeover. Oh, my god.