Reply #9: Tie confessions

[teach1st]

Here I am, a fifty-year-old man who can't knot a tie. Pathetic! I'm a college graduate, for goodness sake. I only wear a tie maybe twice a year (I'd wear one more if I knew how to knot it), so it ain't so bad. My excuse: In my formative years my father never got to teach me to knot a tie, since I was such a hippie.

Worse, I think, is my pitiful inability to cboose a tie that's even close to the current style or that goes with my shabby wardrobe.