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My scarf was on TV!

My son, Geoff, was wearing the scarf at the time.  He was interviewed by the local news station
(KREM) in Spokane in a piece about college students facing a shrinking job market.  The piece was aired on Northwest Cable News
and my parents, who live in the Portland
area, happened to see it.  My Mother
called and told us about it on Monday morning (before 9:00 am – I figured
someone was in the hospital!).  We waited
through an hour of grim-and-grislies (I’m not one for TV news – I prefer the
newspaper because I can skip around and read what I want – but I digress) and
saw the piece. 

I want everyone to know that my first thoughts were about
how cute my son looked on TV and how well my son spoke on TV – and several more
mom-ish sentiments along those lines. 
Then, the scarf registered.  Hey,
wasn’t that the scarf I had knit him for Christmas?  (In another digression:  scarves-as-being-great-Christmas-gifts seem
to be haunting me – see my October 19^th post)  We found the video on the news station’s
website and, sure enough, there was my scarf! 

Being doting parents, we fired off emails with the link to
family and friends.  And I mentioned that
he was wearing the scarf I knit.  Figured
I might as well snatch a little of the glory while I could.  My Mother and Dad said that the news guy
probably chose Geoff to interview because he looked so “dapper” (direct
quote).  And they commented on the scarf
– and this was before they knew that
I had knit that particular scarf (you can put the remark down to pure
aesthetics).

When I talked to Geoff about the news story, I asked him why
he had not called and told us it was going to air.  He said they had interviewed a number of
students and he had not known when the piece would be shown.  And he said: 
Mom, did you see that I was wearing your scarf?  I think he hopes to get points for having had
the good sense to be wearing the scarf I knit him when he was randomly selected
from a campus full of students for a TV interview.  I think I should get points for knitting the
kind of scarf that will get a guy noticed by a camera crew on a campus full of
students.