Is that a new tie, dad?
No, it’s, it was at the back of the closet and I was looking around and found it just now and thought I’d wear it.
How do you tie a knot like that?
I’ll show you sometime. (Just not right now because I notice it’s my naked lady tie a co-worker got me in Italy, I guess, because it says “100% ACETATO” on a little label the back, and when you fold it open there she is, full-color on a white ACETATO lining, kneeling under a tree in a field somewhere. The naked lady, not my co-worker).
My dear old Dad showed me how to tie a Windsor knot. It’s something like shaving, a man thing, to tell the next generation that we’re all dying and don’t forget how to do this… See it’s being so cheerful that keeps me going, sometimes.