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My cousin’s wife decided to host a get together of the Robinson cousins and my brother, sister-in-law and I traveled to King of Prussia to meet everyone.  I’ve never much enjoyed family functions but this one went well.  Cousin is close enough that you can lean on family as a connector but it doesn’t become a straight jacket.  Before departing and after a good amount of drinking we took a group shot where most of the ladies wore funny hats.

Me: That’s interesting. I have a tiny hat in my car.
Cousin #1: That’s beautiful.  You should wear your tiny hat.
Cousin #2: Go get your tiny hat.
Brother: You’re not wearing a god damn tiny hat in a family photo.
Cousin #1: If he wants to wear a tiny hat he can wear a tiny hat.
Cousin #2: What’s your problem with your brother’s tiny hat?  It’s probably a lovely tiny hat.
Brother: Could everyone please stop saying tiny hat and someone take a picture?
Cousin #3: Everyone say… ‘tiny hat’ and smile.
Group: Tiny hat!
Brother: I hate all of you.

There are times when I love my family.

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I’ve worn my tiny hat a lot over the past few days and the charm is starting to wear off.  Joe and I hope to go to DragonCon in Atlanta in the late summer and I may try to create Tiny Hats for Reason.  I think if I offered notable Skeptics a $20 donation in their name to the Richard Dawkins foundation in exchange for them getting their picture taken wearing a Tiny Hat while holding a sign saying “I wear tiny hats AND I support reason” we can make the world a better place.

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Suzie’s tiny hat had grown on me and I brought it into work to show people.  I did one of two things:

1) I’d walk into someone’s office with it on and see how long it took them to say something.
2) I’d leave it in the pocket of my lab coat and when talking to someone, slip it on when they turned away.

The second method seemed far more menacing as people would continue the conversation but sometimes glance at my head with the look that they were in a fugue state.  Was he always wearing the hat?  Is the hat really there?

I showed another two coworkers:
Coworker #1: You really like that tiny hat.
Me: Yes, it is a tiny hat.
Coworker #2: I say we put together a betting pool and see how much it’d cost to have Terry wear the tiny hat for a day.
Me: Look at how tiny it is!
Coworker #1: My guess, not much.