Escaping the Noose?

Crossing the Delaware a few weeks ago, I came down the stairs into the PATCO station and sat down. It was a three person bench and I took one end. A man was sitting on the other end. In between was an empty seat. On the empty seat was a man's tie, tied but loosened. "Is that yours?" I asked the man on the other end of the bench. "No, it was here when I got here," he said. "Someone must have escaped," I replied. He laughed. It does make you wonder. Had someone decided they had just had enough and weren't going to take it anymore? Maybe he remembered it was casual day. No way to know.