A Red Letter Day
Oh! What a glorious day it is today.
I threw out my sizeable collection of neckties.
Now, I've always hated #&%*%@$& neckties. I didn't like them as a child when I had to wear them to Sunday School. And, I really didn't like them as an adult when I had to wear one to work every freakin' day.
Neckties are a classic example of a good idea gone terribly wrong. They were invented many years ago as something to keep soup off the front of dress shirts. Now you see folks moving them away from the front of their shirts while eating to avoid getting soup on them! Soup and silk never did mix. And, of course, a napkin serves the same function without the need for making it a permanent part of your ensemble.
In recent times, neckties have devolved into a symbol of power and formality. Bankers wear them. Laywers wear them. CEO's wear them. However, most people only wear them these days on formal occasions. And, so it is that I did keep a brace of them to wear with my black dress suit. One is for weddings and the other is for funerals.
Sure do hope nobody gets married or dies. After all, both marriage and death are, like the necktie, highly overrated.
I threw out my sizeable collection of neckties.
Now, I've always hated #&%*%@$& neckties. I didn't like them as a child when I had to wear them to Sunday School. And, I really didn't like them as an adult when I had to wear one to work every freakin' day.
Neckties are a classic example of a good idea gone terribly wrong. They were invented many years ago as something to keep soup off the front of dress shirts. Now you see folks moving them away from the front of their shirts while eating to avoid getting soup on them! Soup and silk never did mix. And, of course, a napkin serves the same function without the need for making it a permanent part of your ensemble.
In recent times, neckties have devolved into a symbol of power and formality. Bankers wear them. Laywers wear them. CEO's wear them. However, most people only wear them these days on formal occasions. And, so it is that I did keep a brace of them to wear with my black dress suit. One is for weddings and the other is for funerals.
Sure do hope nobody gets married or dies. After all, both marriage and death are, like the necktie, highly overrated.
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