Nice Tie

Dear Diary:

I was standing on a crowded No. 6 train. I looked down to see that a woman sitting there was staring directly at me. More specifically, she was staring at my tie. It had a Shakespeare theme, with images of his face and quotations from his works.

“Where did you get that tie?” she asked.

“My mother,” I said sheepishly. Not surprisingly, there was a bit of laughter around me.

“Where can I get one?” the woman asked.

I quickly turned the tie around to show her the manufacturer’s name. She snapped a picture.