Why you should leave your Piggly Wiggly cap at home
My serendipitous meeting with Jimmy Carter 14 years ago provided an embarrassing fashion moment
If you knew you were going to meet the President of the United States, would you iron your shirt, shine your shoes and take your sports coat to the dry cleaners?
I would have, had I known I was going to be standing face to face with Jimmy Carter one summer morning in 2009.
I certainly would not have worn my bright, orange baseball cap from the Piggly Wiggly in Apalachicola, Florida.
I have been reminiscing about that awkward day after it was announced a few weeks ago that the 98-year-old Carter – the longest-living President in U.S. history – is now under hospice care in his hometown of Plains, Georgia.
I have told this story countless times over the years, about the day when I fashion-shamed myself in front of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. I had met the gracious couple many years before, when he was governor of Georgia, and I was a high school student visiting the governor’s mansion with my church youth group.
This time was different, though … a serendipitous meeting and a wardrobe calamity of landslide proportions.