You slowly discover the many hats you’ve invited onto your head
You carefully remove the T-pins from your blemish-free, foam wig head, and pull your brand-new sheitel over your head. With levels of both amusement and awkwardness, you stand before the mirror and tuck and tug and tuck some more, trying to grow accustomed to the new reflection before you. You throw a wink at the mirror and turn to face the world as a newly minted wig wearer.
What you don’t realize is that with this seemingly innocuous transition, you’ve just subjugated your head to gears of vast varieties. And so, as time passes, and your wig head breaks out in inverted pimples — or is it extremely open pores? — you switch between tichel and sheitel and slowly discover the many hats you’ve invited onto your head. Over time, you learn to wear each one with pride.
It doesn’t mean you’re pompous, nor does it mean you’re rich. All it really means to wear the banker hat is that you’re going to have to make sure your hundreds are regularly broken up so you have change for new packages of index cards, GO food sales, Chagigah, and overdue library books. And of course, cleaning help.
Your first day on this job you’re going to feel perfectly ethereal. Wow. Imagine! You! Wasn’t it just yesterday that you rested your head on a pillow that had your six-year-old tooth concealed beneath it, and you woke up to the utter astonishment of a mystical dollar bill in its place?
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