The Order of the Red Hat Ladies, Virginia Chapter

Gina and I were having dinner tonight, at O'Charley's, where we were seated next to a round table of middle-aged or older women. There were probably six or seven of them, but they all were wearing purple robes and red straw sun hats. They also shared the common characteristic of having extremely loud laughs and probably a more than decent tolerance for alcohol.

This begs two questions: where can I get a red hat like they had? And also, how does one become a member of their Rojo Sisterhood?

The other top quote of the evening came from a little boy two aisles over from us at Wal-Mart, where first he laughed like my high school math teacher, Mr. Kilgore, and then he shouted "Hey! Give me back my coconut!" Hmm... mysterious!