Two questions....

It's come to this:  I've spent a fair amount of my life outdoors.  Some of it was supervising my guys building homes, some of it was mowing my $#%^* yard, and some of it was swimming or simply catching some rays.  And now it's all come back to bite me.  Skin cancer.

Last November I had a couple of spots successfully removed.  Now I'm told I must wear a hat every day.  I have a collection of baseball caps I rotate wearing, and those are fine, but some days I want to look a little more upscale, you know?

That's why I've been thinking about getting something like this.  ^

The look came to me after I saw this ad in a magazine of Sean Connery selling fancy duffel bags.  I thought, "Hey, I've got a duffel bag.  If I just had a Panama hat people wouldn't be able to tell us apart.  I might even get moved up to the head of the line at the Dairy Queen!"

Now here's my first question:  If I wear a Panama hat am I likely to get beat up a lot?  Be honest.

And my second question:  How do you keep a hat on your head when it's windy?  Believe me, the "Windy City" has nothing on Dallas.  

I know it can be done because I see drugstore cowboys around here wearing hats all the time.  Are they glued on with that stuff not-very-well-endowed women use to keep their strapless evening gowns from falling off?  Is it available OTC? 

I'm not gonna spend the money to buy one if the consensus is I can't pull it off.  So what do you think?

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On a completely different topic, check out THIS video of Bubba Watson's* hovercraft golf cart.  I don't play golf....it bores me....but if I had one of these I'd....make one helluva good golf chauffeur.  (You thought I was gonna say I'd learn to play golf, didn't you?  Haha!)

Hang on.  It's almost the weekend.  ;)

S

*I'm guessing he's a famous pro golfer?  

I don't like hats, but the doctor said....

If you'll pay attention to old photographs from about the turn of the 20th Century through about the 1950's +/- you'll see that men, all men, wore hats.  They wore them to church on Sunday, they wore them to their offices or to work on the assembly lines on weekdays, and they wore them to sit on the porch and whittle on Saturday afternoons.  

Where'd they go? 

After a little research I found out that President John F. Kennedy personally didn't like hats and refused to wear one, and because of his immense popularity at the time....Camelot and all that....he pretty much squashed the men's hat industry in the US. 

Young urban men of a certain age and rappers still wear them today as part of their "statement"....

....and drugstore cowboys like to wear them while they're out the on the range rounding up stray doggies.  (Haha....on their Wii's maybe!)

They're about it.  Otherwise, it's all about baseball-style caps. Hands down, if a man is going to wear a hat at all, they're the hat of choice today.

I bring all this up because about a year ago I was told by a dermatologist that the hair (singular) on my head wasn't enough to protect my scalp from the blazing Texas sun, and that I could look forward to hats/caps being part of my wardrobe from now on.  My recent bout with skin cancer brought that home.

I'm with Kennedy....I don't like hats either.  Still, it beats smearing that nasty sun screen all over my head before I go out every day.  I have a collection of a few hats....

 ....but I'm thinking I might get something a little more stylish for the spring / summer.

I'm thinking something like this ^.  It seems to work well for Sean Connery, and I like to think he and I have a lot in common....you know, the rugged good looks  that macho air of confidence  the moustache.  Then there's....ummm....

Maybe I'd better keep looking.  *sigh*

S