End Necktie Tyranny
by Albus
If you’re a Halloween fan, and enjoy a good scare now and then,
do a Google search on “doctors neckties”. Good ahead… I’ll
wait here while you check it out.
Amazing, isn’t it? All those germs are hitch-hiking on doctors’
neckties, trucking around from one patient to the next. Now,
this year, doctors in England are banned from wearing neckties.
It’s a sanitation and patient-protection policy that deserves
consideration throughout the health care industry.
If you give it any thought, you’ll have to agree that neckties
serve no useful function anyway, whether they are worn by
doctors or insurance salesmen or anyone else. It’s a strip of
cloth around the neck and draped down the front that signals
only that the wearer is doing something because someone else
did it first. That’s hardly a good reason for doing anything, and
does nothing to inspire confidence in the wearer’s mental or
leadership qualities.
Antigo is in the fashion forefront on this critical issue, I’m happy
to note. When was the last time you saw newspaper picture of
an Antigo governmental official or businessman wearing a
necktie? Let’s get practical. Who needs a necktie to get caught
in a hay baler, or a chainsaw, or an ATV axle, or a fax machine,
or in the hands of a disturbed patient or angry student?
I say, ban the necktie. I haven’t worn one since 1987. I gathered
them all up, and turned them over to a fabric artist to be woven
into decorative wall hangings and scatter rugs.
If your health care professional comes into the examining room
wearing a necktie, ask him, “Hey, dude! What’s with the necktie?
Do you wash that thing between patients?”
If we do it right, only politicians and lawyers will still be wearing
neckties. At least then they’ll have a function, and serve to
identify potential danger and signal the need to exercise
extreme caution.
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I won’t even eat in a restaurant if the waitress is wearing a necktie, unless that’s all she’s wearing.
I heard Bob Becker was a waiter some where – I’m hoping he wasn’t the one wearing the necktie. *shivers*
You’ve got to be kidding…that’s scary and I would hope very untrue!
Well, if he does wear a necktie,he should stuff it down the back of his jeans to help disguise that “electricians crack” he sports 24/7. Now THAT,fellow bloggers, is SCARY!!
Before the Edison Club closed I went there for an office party – guess who my server was? Yep that’s right folks, Mr. Becker in the flesh. Maybe that’s why the place closed down? I didn’t think it was funny back then, but now I think back at it and I can’t help not to chuckle a little bit. Only in Antigo!!
not just bob beckers butt crack but what the hell is up with the hair….does he even own a comb…and does he know how to use it or should he be taught again…LOL
There we go, judging people on someone’s appearance (which I realize is pretty “out there”), but I hear he’s actually a very smart man and pleasant to talk to. Try it sometime!
Bob is a pretty nice guy, very intelligent.. Strange, but harmless.
Do you remember the guy with the nickname “Cat Man”? I can’t remember too much about him I was young when he was around. He used to have something to do with collecting cardboard boxes from stores. I think he would cash in cardboard for money. He would scream and yell at people who would take boxes who he claimed were his.
Yep, I remember Cat Man, not sure whatever happened to him. I think he was pretty old already when I was a kid.