"What's with the Communist hat?"
I was taken aback. Too stunned to comment, but annoyed enough at his viewpoint not just to smile and nod in a placatory fashion. As with all occasions like that, all the good ripostes came as I walked away.
Turning round the corner, I walk past a demonstration outside Indigo, calling for a boycott on the store by some pro-Palestinian group or other. The man there holds out a flier.
"You have a progressive hat sir, have a progressive flier!"
I have a new hat. You may have seen it in some of the pics from Cuba. I like it, but I didn't think it was all that different. In fact, back in the UK, I doubt it would have drawn any comment, certainly wouldn't have in Glasgow. I thought Quebec was actually quite left wing, but left wing in a North American setting obviously means a different thing.
