Goines On: Maggot caps & fraudsters

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To go out and hand their landscaper a check for the morning’s lawn work and a bit of weeding, Goines chose from his array of billed caps the red one with the “T,” which a neighbor had given him about five years earlier. Stepping out now with it on his head, he remembered his initial reluctance to wear it in public.
    Goines and the landscaper had talked politics on numerous occasions and found themselves happily quite aligned, so he decided to make a joke about politics. “You of course know what the ‘T’ does not stand for...,” he said with a grin that was visible because he wasn’t wearing a mask against Covid. But the landscaper was fiddling with his own mask – against dust and pollen – and so didn’t hear what Goines had said.
    “I said you know what the ‘T’ on my red cap doesn’t stand for….”