My son lost his hat today. It’s a good thing it was raining so it was an old hat not a good Borsolino or something. He was on the train platform- an elevated train platform in Brooklyn. There was a gust of wind amidst the rain and it flew onto the tracks. He went to go get an MTA employee to retrieve it, but by then a new gust of wind had blown it off the tracks and he couldn't see it. So he went out to the street to look for it but it was gone.
You may think it an odd happening. How often do you lose a hat? Well for my son this is not the first time. One morning two months ago when he went to the mikva, he says he left his things in their usual places. But when he came back his hat was gone! He talked to the attendant. He spoke to the shul gabai. To no avail.
But wait! That mikvah loss was not his first hat loss either. It was his second hat to disappear! Two months before, while on a family trip out of town, he left his hat in the shul after shachris because of a sudden downpour. It was gone by mincha!
My son is approaching his 14th birthday, so he’s only been wearing a hat for a year. How did he manage to lose 3? I think it’s time to get him
this one .