Billy Dose was wondering if the baseball cap he was wearing to hide his hair loss was, in fact, making his hair fall out faster. He was also worrying that it made him look dimwitted, like the type of man who might actually care about baseball.

For a moment, his thoughts drifted back to his loss, earlier that day, of his sales job, the third job he had lost this year and the only one that paid him commissions on time. He worried how he would explain that to his current girlfriend, to whom he owed three thousand dollars. Then he began to worry that worry itself was making him lose even more hair.