Out with the old

I've been shirking posting this post for some time. Because it's sad and disappointing, although trivial. But it was destined to happen some time. I spent about 5 hours with a friend of mine last last Thursday looking for a new hat. We basically went into every store that carried hats in the entire mall (and it's quite a large mall). We even went back to the store where I bought my original hat. After the hours we spent popping in and out of shops turned up nothing unique, I settled for this hat: It's just brown and beige and pinkish and blue. It's...normal. Everyone I showed it to simply shook their heads at me. People were telling me how disappointed they were in me because of the lack of individuality expressed in my new hat. They say that it just doesn't compare with my duck hat. And I did check out the TTC lost and found, but nothing. Oh well, it keeps my head moderately warm. But that still doesn't change the fact that I feel like I've betrayed my old hat by cheating on it.