ON POWER TIES

A few weeks back, I was traveling with another rep through Charleston WV, and we'd stopped for gas and coffees, right by Yeager Airport, kind of in the hills, just outside of the city. And the lady that was working behind the counter commented on my purple tie. But, hold on a sec...outfit check...I was wearing a lovely dark gray suit with a light blue shirt and a deep purple tie with a few black and light blue stripes on the diagonal. Its a good looking set, and it all matches very well, with black shoes and a black belt, pants tailored to fit my skinny legs and non existent ass. So i'm thinking I look sharp. And now back to the counter at Circle K. She says, "Looove that purple tie! I thought POWER TIES went out in the 80's!?". Outfit check #2....she was wearing some faded black stretch pants, a tee shirt with some lame beer affiliation on it, and bad mall hair, and she was old, and had "summer teeth"...some'r here, some'r there. So I look at her and said, "i love this tie with this outfit, and POWER TIES came in in the 80's, then faded in the 90's, remember Gordon Gekko?". So, my associate Dennis chimes in with his two cents worth. Outfit Check #3...Dennis is wearing a pair of bad off the rack black psuedo slack/khakis, with those little reddish brown loafers with tassles and a bad, old faded "white" oxford, and some k-mart tie. Dennis says" i think she's saying she don't like your tie joe". So i look at both of them, furrow my brow, look them both up and down, and I go "shut up D, it's long walk home from West Virginia" then i look at the chick behind the counter, and i say "all I need from you is my change ma'am". And she said "i actually like your tie, just thought it should be skinnier". I said to D, "see dude, she likes the tie, and knows she shouldn't be making fun of your Kmart suit bro." and the episode was over, and i was the victor. And as my close personal friend MC HAMMER said, you can't touch this!