Cougar hat

Yesterday, while looking for a ladies' baseball hat to wear this summer, I saw a pink hat with the word "Cougar" boldly announced on the front.  I looked at it carefully; it was an attractive hat.  I imagined the looks I would get if I wore that around town this season, and it made me wonder what kind of woman would wear such a hat?  She'd have to be over a "certain age," and she would have to look hot. I couldn't imagine wearing such a hat in your fat pants.  I envisioned a subtly highlighted ponytail coming out of the back.  But wait, such a woman might have too much taste to buy that head gear.  She would have to be a woman with a good sense of humor, and she would have to be single-- or would some husband buy it as a gag gift?  Oh, no, I am going down the entirely wrong alleyway here-- she would have to be a woman who thought she was hot.  Yes, that makes sense-- and that is an interesting image.

So I didn't buy the Cougar hat, but I did think about what animal labeled hat my friends and I might buy that would more accurately describe the average woman.  The leaf-cutter ant, perhaps?  Intent on being busy and productive?  The Bluejay?  Always yelling at someone to put their shoes on and constantly feeding a chirping young one?  The orangutan for sure.  A child always crawling all over a patient and quiet momma.  Some of my more elegant friends could easily be gazelles-- graceful and sleek, and my artistic friends could have spider written on their caps.  The nomenclature I would most like is the one that fits my youngest daughter: house cat.  She loves to stretch out and lounge in the sun, and when you pet her, she purrs!