Waiting in the queue at Durban airport: there in front of me is a late 30s looking man, carrying what looks like a laptop bag on one shoulder and a hard hat in a hand. It caught me off-guard. For a second I wondered what he was doing carrying a hard hat onto a plane. Is flying becoming that precarious? And then of course my reasoning kicked in: he had visited a construction site for the day, he was an engineering consultant or some such..
I wondered what other situations might require a hard hat. Is there ever a risk of falling debris in a conversation? I wondered how it would be if everyone catching that flight carried or wore a hat onto the plane. I think I would be carrying a soft hat, one that allows for ideas or information to get inside my head. A hard hat would make me even more stubborn.
Hard Hat
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