A set, and a habit.

Every school has sets. Occasionally a set becomes a thing in itself.

The class that left Lagos State Model College in the year 2000 took the shield off the gate and the words off the wall and carried both out with them. Best of the best was the answer they gave, and twenty six years later it is still the answer they give.

The LASMOCK Y2K Alumni Association is what that set became. Y2K Store is where it puts the things it makes: a small number of real objects, made properly, rather than a large number of ordinary ones made cheaply.

The first object is a cap. The crest on the front is the one from the gate, down to the star and the year. The laurel across the peak is the one that sat above it. The words on the closure tab are the ones that never needed explaining.

There are one hundred of them, and each carries a number that belongs to exactly one person. That was the point. A hundred identical caps would have been merchandise. A hundred numbered caps is a roll call.