I start my mornings off with a cup of coffee and Facebook. Last week as I read through everyone's morning posts, I catch a comical banter amongst some of the moms. It happens that this morning, many of us had sons that needed to dress up for an away, middle school (7th and 8th grade) basketball game. The coach requires slacks, button up shirts and ties for these away games. Last year my son wrestled and the same attire was required, as well as band performances.
My good friend goes on to describe her morning with her two teenage sons, attempting to tie a tie, finally relying on You tube to figure out how to get the job done. Along with her post is a picture of her son with the tie stopping dead center of his torso, not even close to his belly button. Now, I am dying with laughter because we had experienced this mania last year. This year we have a clip on and his "good" tie is still tied from last year, just loosened and hanging on a hanger. My good friend is a single mother who shares custody, her ex husband cannot necessarily make it over to tie their sons tie in the early morning. What is our excuse? My husband doesn't know how to tie one either, in fact, whenever we have had a formal event, we beat feet over to my parents house! Unfortunately, they moved across the country a few months ago so we are going to be sc@*%#d if such an occasion arises!
What has happened to us? In "us" I mean lazy, middle class Americans that have lost appreciation for ties and dresses at dinner, dressing up in more than designer jeans for celebrations and gatherings. I thought there were enough of " us" who were required to wear such things to work, as I looked around, not many professionals wear ties anymore, heck, I don't even see them at church anymore. I know living even further out than the suburbs things get a little lax, in the city they may be common place but back in the day, young men just knew how to tie a tie no matter where they lived.
That morning after sharing in the comic relief, we agreed on one thing...thank God for YouTube tutorials!
Kelly
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