Uniform

I stretched my arm out as one of my students tried to enter my classroom today, blocking their way. Not only was he wearing his tie like a bandana but this was worn over the top of a balaclava!
‘What’s this?’ I asked.
‘Nothing.’
‘What’s the deal with this?’ he asked, flipping the interrogation round and touching my well-chosen tie for the day.
I said nothing (literally).
He said gnomically, ‘nothin’, Sir. It’s just what it is init.’
He began waving at his classmates through the window of the door.
I pounced on this opportunity to play the uniform game where the class used this student as an example and made him look neat and tidy. We all made an extra effort to make him look particularly neat and tidy this afternoon. That is, with a long, thin tie not a short, fat one!