Monday, December 22, 2008

Hat

I went into Accessorize while I was waiting at Euston for the train to Glasgow, as I was quite bored.
I was looking for hats to try on but I did not like their hats much until I spied a superb little black hat on a peg very high up, with an interesting ruched ribbon detail and a cool retro style; funky for Accessorize. I decided to try it on and I asked the shop assistant to get it down for me, because I had my guitar on my back and couldn't leap up to grab it.
She got a bamboo pole and gently hooked the hat down. There was something weird about it; I realised it had already been worn and had no price tag or manufacturer's label, and I turned it round to find that it had an official-looking enamel badge on it.
It was a St John's Ambulance lady's hat.
How did it get there?

1 comment:

  1. That hat was probably left there by a St. Johns staff member who was attending a suicide? Apparently somebody had jumped onto the railway tracks? (Some heavy-metal/Grunge music can make you do this) While you bought her hat. How does this make you feel?

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