It takes about three weeks, but every year the students notice that I have quite a few ties (I don’t have as many as Brad, but I also don’t kill bunnies with shovels). I have a little over a hundred, but only wear about 90 of them which is just about exactly half a school year worth of ties. Each year I have a few students get me ties for Christmas or my birthday, and I tell them that I’ll wear any tie, no matter how ugly it is, at least once.
This year a student asked, “Has anyone ever complimented you on your tie every single day of the whole year?” I responded in the negative, and he then asked, “Would you give me a prize if I did?”. Again, I responded in the negative, but added, “But if someone were to keep track of every tie I wore, that would be worthy of some sort of reward.”