Top Hat & Tails

My mother & father fought day & night but they made a hat with cardboard & glue they measured my head & was erudite this accomplishment, of their love, shone through. To me, who'd more than just a few doubts? I slept right through it all and then went to school the very next day, Hat on, they recount my hat-had-won the show; yes, this was cool. 'Oddest-thing-is' I don't recall wearing it. I don't recall going to school at all all I remember is seeing the skip- & joy in their proud hearts, still so enthral. As they recapped the story late one night describing how they saved their silver foil. A '40 a day habit', I guess they'd to light, buy more packs, hadn't they heard-of tinfoil.