And we're back to the Skagit County, everyone's favorite home-away-from-home (in case you missed previous Skag posts, it's pronounced SKA like in "scat" and G as in "badge")!
Today's observation pertains to the alarmingly high per capita use of camouflage hats. While on a trip to Fred G Meyer in Burlington on Sunday afternoon, two men wearing camouflage hats were observed in the Fred Meyer Starbucks, chilling with their Caramel Macchiatos while their dutiful wives shopped. A few moments later, no less then two more men were spotted in the paint and plumbing section, also sporting hats appropriate for waging war and/or hunting live animals. Wow.
Four separate camo encounters in about twenty minutes in one single location had me reeling. So as we entered Super Supplements a few moments later, the sight of yet another camo cap gave me heart palpitations (and not in a Ryan-Gosling-without-a-shirt-kind of way). It was more of a flight-or-fight response. However, this particular cap was seated a little too comfortably on the head of a ten-year-old boy! Call CPS because this must be some kind of abuse. He's clearly not old enough to make his own decisions. Let's put it this way: would you allow your ten-year-old son to get married? To vote for president? I didn't think so.
Wearing a camouflage hat at such a vulnerable age could potentially affect your future even more than marriage or the future commander-in-chief. Wearing a camouflage hat in a non-ironic way (and trust me, no one does anything ironically in the Skag) says so much about a person. It says, "I am ready to kill Bambi at any moment," or "My mom shops for my clothes at the farm supply store," or even "I can't wait to join the army and kill people, too." Any way you put it, camo is not a decision that children are equipped to make. Another fail for the Skag.
*I apologize for the lack of photographic evidence to support my camo claims, but I thought that not only was taking pictures of strangers in public creepy, but also potentially illegal*
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