Is this the sort of thing one posts in a LiveJournal?

[rax]

Someone pointed me at http://www.fishfishknits.com/hats/foxhat.jpg
today. This is a fine hat that I would totally wear, but it is $40,
which is an awful lot of money for _yarn._ (You may be familiar
with yarn; it is an object that costs much less than $40.) Also,
it is too hot to wear a hat or, really, anything in this state.

This hat reminds me of a story.

So this one time I was walking down the street during the evening.
I am pretty sure the street was something near campus (MIT), like
Vassar or Mass Ave or maybe Main. Some woman looking in the 28-35
cruft bracket walks up to me and says "Hi Rax!" I say, "Umm, hi,"
having no idea who this woman is. She introduces herself (I promptly
forget her name) and says she knows of me through a bunch of
activities, I want to say Mystery Hunt and SIPB or something.

Then she starts telling me about how she had found this knitting
pattern for a hat with cat ears, and had started knitting it for
me to give me as a present, but then she realized that actually,
giving some girl ten years younger than her who she had never met
a present might actually be kind of creepy, so then she didn't.
I could really only respond with "Oh, I wouldn't have minded it,
I would have loved the hat," which was true.

Running through my head was also "It wouldn't have been any
creepier than this interaction." After this, she left.
I don't believe I have ever seen or spoken to this woman again.
I would totally have taken the hat. Also, what the hell?

Comments

[calling-to-deep.livejournal.com]

For acrylic, yeah, $40 is a bit stupid. But nice wool can easily run $10-$15 a ball. (It takes 2 balls to make a hat, about 4-6 for a scarf).

I am also stupid in that i will pay large amounts of money for nice yarn, because I love yarn.

[ringer.livejournal.com]

This story makes me think of several people, particularly mikka. Except I think you know her.

In any case, having your reputation precede you can't be that new an experience, can it?

[rax.livejournal.com]

I know mikka quite well, though this was certainly a similar person.

And I am used to having my reputation precede me, but it's still a little hard to believe sometimes. For example, who are you? :)

[ringer.livejournal.com]

What you don't recognize my photograph?

Actually, I hadn't even thought about this. In hindsight, I would have expected a listed interest of "electric trombone" to give me away, if not "kung fu" and "Marin county". Do I really need to write a bio?

Joellen, at your service.

[rainfae.livejournal.com]

I would, and probably already have, totally done this. I tend to strongly connect people to certain things and even if I've only met this person once, I like to try and give them the objects..wow. I'm very creepy. :D