the hat

Recently I've been stricken with a series of earaches and consequent ear-drainage. It started out as quite an unpleasant thing, with the initial earache and pain thereof. And now, for the last 4 days, I wear a hat to protect my ears from the maniacal elements that are always beating against them trying to bring them down. (Can you see them? Screaming "Curses!!!")
The coolest thing about said hat is that it's also connected to a scarf. The scarf actually protrudes out of the top of this green-striped hat. The hat was actually a Christmas present to me from Abner HCS (hey I wonder if that'll actually become a part of his name one day. Like Mike D.) who is a sweet boy. See, initially I found it in the HCS dress-up closet and wanted to keep it. But since Steve had recently moved there he claimed first rights and stole it from me. Later I guess he decided it didn't jibe with his refined persona and he handed it down to Abner, who bequeathed it to me under the falsehood that it was a 2nd identical hat. But one whiff of it and the truth was plain. You can't take the smell out of Steve!
Here. Now that I've gotten myself this far into the trivial story, I might as well post a picture of the darned thing.