hmm, If you go to the general store you could buy it from taffy and then when you met me I'd be like
"mah hat!!"

Or you could just see my fire and come over? It is pretty close to the bar so you could leave and see it as your walking. If you do go for the hat I'm not sure why exactly you'd be trying to buy it is all, unless you yourself want a hat, in which case you could exhort more money from me by selling it back to me when you realize that by chance you have bought my hat and I'm willing to buy it back :P