This is not a story about me. My boyfriend was picking me up after work, it was in winter, and it was cold. We both were in a bad mood.
I got into the car and started talking and I saw that something was wrong. His hat looked funny, it was too high. I said, “I think your hat is inside out. By the way, it was a pom-pom hat. We were laughing all the way home and couldn’t stop.
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