As a SMAG in the city, life can feel a bit New York-centered, and it can be all too easy to forget that the entire world doesn't revolve around this place we call home. In these instances, having non-NYC-based friends provides a much-needed breath of fresh air, especially when it leads to conversations like the following, with a friend in the UK:
Joe: I met a random British guy in a Yankee hat the other day
I was like, "what's up with that?"
and guess where he got the idea?
Alex: Friends?
Joe: good guess
people get 90% of their ideas about American culture from that show
anyway, this guy saw the Yankee hat in a Jay-Z video
Alex: oh, wow
I'm glad that British men are taking their fashion cues from Jay-X
*Z
(not sure who Jay-X is)
Joe: Jay-Z's long-lost cousin
Alex: the anti-Jay-Z
Joe: If they find Jay-Y they could have a whole coordinate system
As a big nerd, I'm still laughing about the coordinate system thing. But more importantly, this proves that it wasn't just an empty boast. He really did make the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can (at least in the minds of certain impressionable British men).
Today I saw a black guy in a Houston Astros hat listening to his headphones. American transplant you'd guess, since surely nobody visits Houston from overseas? No, he turned out to be British, maybe he's just a big Mike Jones fan.
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