Useless Men’s Ties

What happens to the all the men’s ties the department store doesn’t sell?

———- from Roger Harding of Rogue River, OR

Many of them are simply exported to third world countries where they’re sold as bandannas. Down thataway people still work for a living, instead of simply shuffling paper in air-conditioned offices. So they need a way to keep the sweat from running into their eyes. Other unsold ties are coated with a stiffener and used as colorful fence posts surrounding government missile ranges. Yes, millions of acres in our Western States are fenced in with unsold department store ties. This collusion between government and the department stores is a little known fact, but is just another way our tax dollars line the pockets of the rich.