Spellflower
Practically Family
- Messages
- 511
- Location
- Brooklyn
I'm a teacher of the deaf, and my job involves going to different preschools and working with deaf children, helping them to succeed in mainstream classrooms. I interact with all the children, since four year olds don't really understand why I'm there. However, I don't have any authority over the other kids, and so they sometimes like to test the limits with me, especially when I'm just starting in the class, and they don't know me. That's the case with the class I was in today. They like me, but they also know I'm a new guy, and not a regular teacher. I'm also a man, which is something they often associate with wild/roughousing play. Usually this is short lived once they see that I respond just as their other teachers would.
Today, while I was sitting with my student on the playground one of her classmates decided to sneak up behind me and dump a whole box of sidewalk chalk on my head, which, unfortunately, meant my Akubra Fedora. I know that he had no idea what a pain he was causing me, so I suppressed my frustration, and responded professionally. But the damage was done. My lovely brown Fedora is now streaked with pastel rainbow. Fortunately for me, I drive to this school, so I didn't have to wear the hat in public on the subway.
So, Loungers, any suggestions for cleaning this hat? Do I need to have it professionally done, or can I do it myself? If it needs a professional, anyone know if there's one in NYC I can trust? I'd always hoped that my first dealing with Optimo would be to have them restore the 1940 Stetson of my dreams, not an Akubra! Any help is appreciated.
Today, while I was sitting with my student on the playground one of her classmates decided to sneak up behind me and dump a whole box of sidewalk chalk on my head, which, unfortunately, meant my Akubra Fedora. I know that he had no idea what a pain he was causing me, so I suppressed my frustration, and responded professionally. But the damage was done. My lovely brown Fedora is now streaked with pastel rainbow. Fortunately for me, I drive to this school, so I didn't have to wear the hat in public on the subway.
So, Loungers, any suggestions for cleaning this hat? Do I need to have it professionally done, or can I do it myself? If it needs a professional, anyone know if there's one in NYC I can trust? I'd always hoped that my first dealing with Optimo would be to have them restore the 1940 Stetson of my dreams, not an Akubra! Any help is appreciated.