That one time in Japan I got invited to a jazz concert by a Mashima sensei, an English school owner I was working for. I had been hanging around with another woman from my church who was way out of my league, but seemed to like being around me. On 27 August, I put on a white tie and took her to the concert. Was it a date? Everyone laughed at me, 'Why are you wearing a white tie: are you going to a wedding?' I thought it looked good, I said, it was 100 yen.