This is my pin.
I wear it on my lapel once or twice a week, sometimes more.
People notice it and wonder: is it some sort of patriotic statement or an indication of merit, like a Phi Beta Kappa pin?
I don't have a Phi Beta Kappa pin, but neither do the Phi Beta Kappans of my acquaintance have a National Drainage Congress pin.
That's what my lapel pin says: Delegate, National Drainage Congress, New Orleans, April 10-13, 1912.
I was not a delegate to the National Drainage Congress in New Orleans in 1912, nor to any other drainage congress since that time. I do not intend to attend a drainage congress of any sort at any time in the near or distant future. I just wear the pin.
I bought the pin nearly 30 years ago at a flea market in Florida for one dollar.
People ask me what it is worth today. I do not know the answer.
I have lost the pin many times, but it always comes back to me.
It is my pin.
P.S. "Having the drains seed to" is a quotation from a work of literature. Anyone know the source?
1 comment:
. . . my goodness. Google is most informative; I never would have guessed "A Study in Scarlet." Now I have to reread all of the Sherlock Holmes stories and reacquaint myself with the minor characters.
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