My hat...

[fajrdrako]

On Saturday I went for a walk with maaboroshi, and we went into the shop above Mrs. Tiggy-Winkles on Bank St. I was wearing a hat that walkingowl had given me, with IUP written on it.

A woman stopped me to ask me (rather incredulously) if the IUP on my hat stood for Indiana University of Pennsylvania and I admitted that it did. She pointed to her husband (who was currently browsing little plastic monkeys) and said that he worked there. They lived in Pennsylvania but were visiting Ottawa, and the last thing she expected to see was someone in an IUP hat. I explained that the hat was a present from someone who was studying there, in the sociology department. I promised to tell walkingowl that I'd run into Mr. Meil of the psychology department.

Funny world.