Snow Day Hats

A snow day is the one weather event people actively campaign for. The rituals are famous: pajamas worn inside out, a spoon under the pillow, ice cubes flushed down the toilet. TODAY reports them as widely practiced, especially on the East Coast and in Canada and as far south as Tennessee, and Mental Floss notes the ice cube count is said to equal the inches of snow. Adults who grew up on the rituals keep them going, hoping for a snow day from work. Teachers may be the most devoted believers. One teacher tweet put it plainly: "sweet Jesus, I would kill for a snow day," and another admitted to praying for snow days more as a teacher than as a pupil. In January 2017 Cherokee County Schools in Georgia traded jokes with students on Twitter ahead of a winter storm, and the replies were as good as the pleas. These snow day hats carry that in-group language: PROUD SUPPORTER OF SNOW DAYS, a phrase already printed on teacher shirts at Walmart, the ritual lines, the endless school closings refresh, and a flat refusal to call a snow day a remote learning day. Each is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Snow Day Hats is about the wish itself, not the job or the school run, so it sits apart from the teacher and carpool collections.