My safari hat judgement..



makes me want to go to Disneyland!





exactly the hat he was wearing!



Have you ever drove by someone and they were wearing something so out of the ordinary that you had to take ohhh 2 or 3 additional looks? I did this yesterday! As the kids and I dropped the Redbox rentals off at Walgreens (not that this has anything to do with what I saw), I passed by this man in the parking lot talking on the phone. Now, he was wearing average looking clothes, nothing out of the ordinary, but it wasn't his clothes that got the double take, it was the hat he wore on his head. It looked like he was about to board everyone on the Jungle ride at Disneyland! You know, one of those hats that if someone was wearing it, you knew they were about to go on a safari in the jungles of Africa!



Ok, ok, maybe... juuuust maybe he had plans for a special trip to Kenya, maybe Tanzania. Suuure, I could chalk this special hat up to something like that, but come on, he had on Khaki shorts, and a collard shirt. This guy wasn't foolin' me, he wasn't goin on any African safari to hunt lions, and take amazing pictures of antalope basking in the sun. No sirrry! This man was just in the bank parking lot, talking on his cell phone, next to his Toyota celica, trying to shade his eyes from heat of hot sun!



Now for a split second I thought about taking out my phone and taking a picture of the safari gentlemen, but I stopped myself! I mean, who am I to judge this guy? What would I be teaching my kids? Why can't he see a hat fit for a jungle romp, and think "this is exactly what I need when I go out into the hot sun, I need this proper hat!" Maybe, just maybe, he was given this hat by his deceased Grandfather, WHO went on magical desert rides with his then Egyptian lover on the backs of camels as he wore his appropriate safari hat, and she in her red sequence sarong. Ok, probably not, but it's fun to imagine, right?





My point is I was judging this man, for wearing a hat that you don't really see often. Most of us don't dress the way we REALLY want to... do we? I may wear something I thought was pretty cool, or comfortable, but don't because people would look at me like was a crazy person! Look at Lady Gaga, for instance. She dresses how she wants to dress, and doesn't really care what people think.





Maybe we all need a lesson from Lady Gaga, and the mystery man with the jungle hat! I think if I thought this way I would probably have the guts to wear my very high heels EVERYWHERE!!



I would wear my heels with my sweats and t-shirt's, and wear my orange and bright blue eye shadows together! I don't know maybe I will ease into it some day. Maybe I may leave this to the brave ones, and I will try to stop judging those who choose to wear what they want, and don't care what others think! I can't help but look though..... sorry.