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One of my dad's wives was a Brit and I learned about the headwear thing from her. I never encountered it before. She pulled a face when I come to the dinner table wearing a baseball cap. She didn't even make a sentence. She just said "Your cap..." and she got even more annoyed I didn't understand what she meant. I took it off because I didn't want to get in an argument. I just wanted to eat.
I never thought of her as my step-mother. I always thought of her as my dad's wife.
I never thought about it until that day. Years after that dinner I watched a Sopranos episode and it made me laugh because Tony was the scary gangster version of my dad's wife.
The Sopranos - "Take your hat off."
Well it's like wearing your coat indoors, you look like a tit