Walk East Until Your Hat Floats

We heard from Deb Briggs in Lombard, Illinois, who wrote,

As I spent time with my grandma in Chicago, one time she used a great phrase while recounting a story.

In it, she was irritated with someone to whom she said,

Hey, buddy, walk east till your hat floats.

Oh, that’s right up there with why don’t you play in traffic?

Yeah, right. Or go jump in a lake. Walkies till your hat floats.

Oh, yeah, that’s a firm denial of whatever it is you just did or said.

Exactly.

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