Is it a scarf?

Every time I'm knitting something in public, someone smiles and asks me whether it's a scarf. It's awesome that knitting clearly makes me more approachable (like an old granny?), but the question always makes me boggle a little because when the question is asked it's never a scarf. Sometimes being asked the question makes me wonder about my knitterly ability. I mean... I was knitting a hat (child sized, and I was knitting in the round) and someone asked me whether it was a scarf.

A few days ago I was knitting the diagonal/trapezoidal part of my wrap sweater in Starbucks, which has curves and fairly strong lines and has a wrong side, and someone asked me whether it was a scarf. I almost got defensive, because I really like this wrap so far, and I came close to asking "for the love of wool, how could this POSSIBLY be a scarf?"

But then I considered. A really big scarf, almost wrap-sized, can be pulled into almost any shape. A scarf can have curves and diagonal lines, too. Actually... come to think of it, I've seen tubular cowl-ish hat-like-ish scarves too.

And I realized: whatever I'm knitting, I'm always knitting a very oddly shaped scarf. So yes, folks -- it's a scarf. A really awesome scarf. Your pants? A scarf. For Siamese twins. Also, you appear to be wearing a body-scarf.