It has been my custom on shabbos since youth to wear a dark felt hat in the winter and a light straw hat in the summer. One summer shabbos I was walking to shul in my whitish straw hat and one of the neighborhood kids saw me and asked why I was wearing a white hat. The answer that came to my mind instantly is the one, I’m sure, that would occur to anyone on this thread over, say, 60. What do you think I answered the kid?
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