Hat Rule #3: Tip your hat like you mean itĭon’t just flick the brim, remove it from your noggin so there is no confusion when you’re acknowledging a crowd in a parade or just a pretty girl on the boardwalk. That’s a hard trade off, but it’s usually worth it. If you do, though, you must be prepared to fight your ex-wife, her mother and whoever is sleeping with the two sluts at the time of the entry. You know, the one who never thought you were good enough to marry her daughter. Don’t do it.Įxception: You may wear your cowboy hat when you are forced to enter the house of your ex-wife’s mother. Moms are sacred and every cowboy knows it. This even includes mamas from other nations. This includes your friend’s mama’s house, as well. There is no more disrespectful thing you can do, short of killing the family dog, than wearing your cowboy hat inside your mama’s house. Hat Rule #2: Do not wear your cowboy hat in mama’s house I know that doesn’t seem fair, but that’s just the deal. Also, a grandchild may do whatever they want to a cowboy hat, short of sleeping in it. It is not okay to grab it off a cowboy’s head, and it is absolutely forbidden to say, as you reach out, “Gee, what’s that made of?”Įxception: A fiance may touch a cowboy’s hat once-on the honeymoon-but that’s it. It is not okay to touch a cowboy’s hat, or put on a stray cowboy hat lying around a bunkhouse or a truckstop. Let’s get this straight: a cowboy hat is not a toy. A man who wears a Stetson treats it like gold, and so should the rest of the world!” Oh, and by the way, you better not mess with my husband’s hat. “We have gotten away from a lot of the politeness we used to have, thus many of our rules have little meaning, except in enclaves here and there. Some individuals either have no manners or they don’t understand hat etiquette. If a kid entered my room and forgot my rule, all I had to do was point to my head, and the hat was swept off and placed out of sight.
In other classrooms, the teachers didn’t care. “When I taught school, the boys had to take off their hats or caps. In a public building, you can keep it on, but if you go into a courtroom, you better take it off, otherwise the judge will nail you. I was taught that you take off your hat or cap in a home, church, restaurant or theater. My husband does that, as do most of the old-timers. “I was always taught that real cowboys tipped their hats to a lady or female. The presence of women usually causes them to change their ways for the better. Let’s face it, men, by themselves, can be slobs in all kinds of ways: hygiene, clothing style, sloppy mannerisms, bad table manners, leaving the toilet seat up. “Women have always made a difference, unless you are some tough wannabe bushwacker or a back-shooter. Sánchez, a third-generation rancher, weighs in with her thoughts on how women have made manners gentler and frontier living more polite. Before we get to the Boy’s Club Rules, Lynda A.
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