The ballad of the traveling tosselcap

This is the story of a little lost tosselcap that finally found its way home. It started several years ago in Wisconsin when Kent's custom tosselcap (made by Big John's wife, Melanie) went missing. At the time, Kent was quite upset and had the impression that Mac was behind the disappearance. Some disparaging remarks were made. Fast forward to a year later in Vermont. Getting ready for our first games, Mac presented Kent with the "missing" tosselcap. Many skeptics felt like the tosselcap that was exchanged that day was not the original, but a clever copy. Skip to the last day of the Vermont trip, and who's tosselcap comes up missing this time? You guessed it - Mac's. Mac was upset at the disappearance, and, of course, blamed Kent. Truth be told, though Kent seemed a likely suspect, he really didn't have anything to do with this one. Mac had left the hat, which was found and returned to our team. Kent, however innocent of the actual disappearance, did seize upon the opportunity to get back at Mac. He stowed it away, disavowed any knowledge regarding the missing cap, and bided his time. On a humorous note, the cap has actually made some candid appearances in pictures, none of which has ever been noted by Mac. Case in point: here is a photo from last year, after the tournament, where Kent is actually wearing the cap.

So I told you all of that to explain what happened today. Kent brought the cap on the trip and we all tried to come up with a clever way to return it to its rightful owner. The opportunity presented itself this morning when Mac checked in. As Mac was filling out his paperwork, I took the cap to one of the gals helping check people in, and asked a favor. The plan was, when Mac presented his registration form, that she would look at the name and say, "Oh, you're Daniel McGovern. I have something for you." She played it perfectly, and the picture tells the rest of the story better than I could describe: