Wearing a tie when traveling by airplane

Sexpigeon explains his new habit:

Girls, especially, like to say this: “Back in the day you used to get dressed up to travel. It was a big deal.” Emphatic pauses before “big” and “deal.” Emphatically blank pauses in which you are supposed to sketch a golden age of propriety. I have taken to wearing a tie while traveling. Yes, I am aging, my hair rapidly thinning, my jowls just getting started on what promises to be a truly plutocratic sag—but still, I do my part. I am a man of a certain age and I am riding an airplane. You get to a certain age and you start making peace with airplanes in ways that surprise you.

Read on for the dramatic conclusion.

17 Responses to “Wearing a tie when traveling by airplane”

  1. scum says:

    That’s a pasty ass white boy.

  2. simon stark says:

    most of the scumbags that read this blog fly coach. so there isn’t really a point now is there?

  3. s. stencil says:

    Took me a decade to absorb the lesson, but the world treats a well-dressed traveler much nicer. Even in coach.

  4. I blame that new “Pan Am” show. Man up, and masturbate on your flight attendant’s sleeve.

  5. clint says:

    but narcissism never goes out of style

  6. trixrforkids says:

    i think if i were a flight attendant, i would treat someone dressed like him as a Mormon.

  7. new says:

    i just wear my Forever Lazy™

  8. SimonSays says:

    Selt portrait in airplane bathroom. Stay classy pasty tie-boy.

  9. tofupuppy says:

    “Please go away”? Gladly.

  10. DAt ASS says:

    Look at dat hipster

  11. simon stark says:

    should also mention his shirt isn’t as white as it should be and the neck tie is of an obsolete cut

    • why says:

      also he should be sporting at least a half-windsor. Knots like that are for school boys… Although I guess he does look a bit like that ging kid from Harry Potter…

  12. Katie C says:

    I hope this means he’s coming to visit us.

  13. Pedro Navaja says:

    What the photo doesn’t show: He’s wearing droopy paint-splattered jeans with yellowed Sponge Bob boxers, a two foot long chain attached to a zippered wallet (Central Valley chic; so fucking hick) and flip-flops with dirty toenails.

  14. ndc says:

    Is that a photo from Sexpigeon or Bad Looks?!?

  15. rod says:

    that’s a long and strange justification for his not uncommon desire to dress in a way that draws attention to himself.