Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for August 17, 2022

Just milling around

A simple fedora just doesn’t do it for Gary.

Gary has been banned by Uber.

Oh look! He’s wearing the new “Box Inserts” they just came in. Apparently, according to the ads, when you sit, it makes its own chair. The come in !arge,, extra large, and Ballard. And of course they can be purchased at Dennis’s Fine Men’s Furnishings and Bait and Tackle. OK, where’s my money, we agreed on $ 6.32 right?.

Oh. Is tonight the night for the hat battles?

By the time he gets a Uber that isn’t afraid of him it’ll be old hat

Gary is anxious to show off his creation of the week. Purely for show, of course. Even on Ballard Street, no woman would wear this.

Oh my, what HAS he done to the Stanly Cup?!

Gary borrowed my 2 old putters the other day and still hasn’t returned them for some reason…

I made Gary remove is chapeau before I’d let him in the car.

But does it keep the bees out of his bonnet? Knowing Gary, the answer is no.

Looks like Paris Fashion Week.

After years of wearing the same hat at the elk club, they voted on wearing a different hat of choice twice a year to break the monotony.

When Gary first joined, he thought it was a Military Club, but he’s warmed up to the fancy chapeau way of thinking. You know, hatters gotta hat…

(¬_¬)

While Gary waits he spreads out…a lot!

“Hat’s Off” to the millinery club. Oh, wait …

A hat like that is for wearing all day not putting down where it might be mistaken for a discarded orrery. :)

I heard that the ladies at the club took up a collection to pay the Uber driver to not show up at Gary’s place.

If evil Erwin is his ride, Erwin may just have the top down to ruin his competitors’ hats while his is safely in the trunk.

Just drive on by . . . :)

Looks like one he** of a party at the Elk’s club.

Gary insists on a ride with the moonroof open.

“In this Style 10/6”

I see Gary is still using mercury to keep the headband stiff. Meanwhile he’s reading Alice in Wonderland while waiting for that Uber.