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Only boards.ie has it’s finger on the pulse of our various vagaries in such a thorough manner. This time: How come when people are drunk they are so attracted to other people’s hats?

Just a gripe really, about drunken people’s attraction to hats, in particular the innocent trilby. Looks nice on the ceann I find but on nights out it becomes something different, a target for the gormless pisshead to either abuse the wearer, pull it off the wearer’s head and wave it around, pull it off the wearer’s head, put it on their own, turn to their friends and see what they think of it(hiding the fact that they’d like to but probably would never wear one on a sober Monday) or a combination of all. I wear my one regularly, on any given day, but I find that on most nights out I wear it it’s either pulled off my head etc. I find this very frustrating and wrong. The interest astounds me to be honest. One one occasion I confronted an offender and started to take his jacket from his back, much to his surprise. I told him in so uncertain terms that it was the same principle and he stared back at me blankly, probably because he didn’t expect me to do what I did. Does any trilby hat, or any other hat wearer for that matter have this problem? I’d say so. Just thought I’d ask.

Get over to boards and read the thread now.