Flashback to the days when this IT pilot fish is still young, foolish and working for a communications company that regularly sends him out of town for work or training.

“Part of my job often included sharing lunch with venders or clients, and I had suffered through enough bad ones to know eating lunch by myself was often a blessing,” says fish.

“One of my trips took me to Dallas, Texas, where there was a steak place that was famous for two things: good steaks and the fact that they didn’t allow diners to wear neckties.”

It’s a gimmick, of course, and the steak house warns customers when they enter. But anyone wearing a necktie will, at some point while waiting for dinner, suddenly hear cowbells and whistles.

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