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With such an unusual title, I had no idea what this song was about when I was growing up. Later, I read that the song was written because Pete Townshend had a guru whose followers would always grab his coat and hang on to it.
The title also brings back an early 1980s memory of some mischief I got into. I should refer to this song as "Do Let Go The Coat", because it was a surgical strike, and I would have been caught if I hadn't let go.
I was about 8, and this incident took place at a department store like Sears or JCPenney. I was with my family doing Christmas shopping. We didn't buy much at midrange stores like this, but this was special. Anyway, my nose started to tickle. It was a telltale sign of a boog.
A booger was gonna be snagged, and that's all there was to it. The problem was that I didn't know where to discard it. I didn't have a tissue handy. It had to go somewhere. I couldn't make it magically disappear.
So I waited until some woman with a little boy walked past. They were complete strangers, and they didn't say a word as they walked by. The woman was wearing a long, tan overcoat.
What an enticing target that overcoat was!
When nobody was looking, I snuck up behind the woman as she was walking and wiped the freshly snagged gob of mucus onto her coat. Then I skedaddled away!
I never got caught, and nobody knows what became of the boog.
That was a couple years before I made a department store escalator grind to a halt by shoving a metal hook into the grooves. I never got caught for that either, but it was so funny to see the look on everyone's faces when the escalator loudly screeched to a stop! It was also before I changed the radio station to static at a sporting goods store and made everyone think the stadium blew up during a Reds game.
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