The fountain of youth has pleats......

[Blu (Ontario)]

My youngest daughter works at a nearby Wal-Mart. Yesterday morning, after dropping her off to work, I parked and went into the store to get a couple of things. (I was wearing my MacIsaac heavyweight.) As I shopped, I got the usual smiles, sideways and backward glances but thought nothing of it. When my daughter got home, I got an elaborate discourse about the stir I had generated amongst some female employees in the store. They loved it! One of the girls (in her mid twenties) thought I looked about 30 years old... ! I think the girl should get her eyes checked - - but (50 and balding) I'll take the compliment anyway. I wish I'd discovered this "fountain of youth" years ago!

[Declan Rowan]

Lol! Great story! I tend to get the opposite:
When I wear pants, I get carded to buy or order alcohol at places, which I understand as I'm only going to be 24 at the end of this month. (Also, here in America I've found they are very strict about age, especially living down the road from a university.)

Yet when I wear the kilt, there is no carding. They just wave me through. I also find I get the eye from many a fine girl who would not even have noticed me before, thinking that I was under their minimum age to associate with. As one girl that I had been flirting with said "You're only 23? I usually dont act like this towards younger men!" I proceeded to laugh, especially as herself was only being a year or two older than I.

So maybe there is a certain trend with the kilt? you start looking older than you are, then younger, and finally distinguished?

[GMan]

Blu are you really 30 That is so cool 8)

I can and do relate to what all the young twenty something ladies say about the kilt, it does this 50 somethings heart feel sooooo good

Great story

[Graham]

I'm not sure if a kilt makes me look younger, but it certainly makes me FEEL younger!

Well done Blu!