Post your St. Patrick's day stories...

[KiltedHuntsman]

I showed up early in my engineering office with my Kilt and tweed Argyll. The guys generally chuckled and complimented me on the Kilt, saying I was braver than they.

The younger woman *loved* it ("magnificent!"), the older woman acted like I was a goofy kid (shook their heads silently).

One woman said "Hey, you wore your skirt!!"

She was gently corrected.

A couple woman asked what was underneath, I used the "I'm a man of few words, give me your hand..." line. They didn't persist.

One of our technicians was very insistent on knowing what was underneath. I used the usual line, "You're welcome to check, if you're Man enough..."

He scurried off and got a mirror.

While he was balancing the mirror on his shoe (even he wouldn't get down on the floor in front of me)trying to see, I explained about the mirror on the ground at the guard post at Edinburgh (spl?) Castle. After fooling with the mirror for a while, he said, without thinking, "It's too dark, I can't see d**k!"

Pause

"No, no that's not what I meant..."

He gave up.

Old Irish guy at the convenience store wanted to know where I had been marching. "No, no, just getting back from the office..." Turned out he was from Donegal, where my family is from.

I suppose I should wander off to the pub, have a few.

[aikinut]

So far it's been a typical workday. One person said they were glad to see me in green. Maybe the evening will make for better stories.

[richardljohnson]

I didn't have the Irish kilt finished yet so I opted for the Dress Campbell(USAKilts). The first almost universal reaction was a gasp of air of surprise or that look which represents confusion. I did have one woman ask the " I've always wanted to know..." I told her that under the policy guidelines that sounded like a sexual harassment comment to me. She laughed and walked off. I had the web master take a picture or two and promise to put them on the web and let me know where they were. (I'll believe it when I see it.)

My supervisor and next level up made a comment and all I said was that the policy was "business casual" and let it go at that. 99.99% of the comments were good so I'm planning another wearing on April 6th (Tartan Day).

I stopped at the store on the way home and had a woman with a strong British accent talking to someone next to her and as I walked by she just looked, like it was odd to see a man in a kilt in Texas!

If pictures are posted I'll get back with a link.

RLJ-

[bear]

I had a St. Paddy's Day that was special to me. It was the St. Paddy's Day I'd been wanting to have for years.

I worked late on a kilt until everyone had gone to bed. Then I popped open a beer and sat down in front of the TV and put in a movie I'd been wanting to watch again for some ten years. Half way through the movie I got up, poured a couple of fingers of Bushmills, opened another beer and sat down to watch the rest.

The movie was The Quiet Man with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. It had been so long since I'd seen it that I'd forgotten much of it. I remembered the way it made me feel a decade ago and some of the highlights but there were all the little touches I'd forgotten. It was like seeing it for the first time. It is the closest thing to a perfect movie I've seen. It was also the movie that John Ford most wanted to make and was most happy with.

Maureen O'Hara in bare feet running on the Irish hills, her red hair as wild as the land itself, well she nearly stopped my heart.

All in all, a grand night. Peaceful and relaxing. I don't get nearly enough of either.

Erin go bragh

[Graham]

Never seen that film Bear, sounds good.

Work as usual for me, wore a green shirt and Bear kilt all day - as usual.
Had a vehicle to deliver to a client who asked what was under the kilt. I said I could tell him, but would then have to kill him. His workmate thought I must be mad.

I called into a second hand furniture shop called "paddy's", it's Irish owner was surprised to see me in a kilt and said I looked very "irish" ?? in a scottish tartan??

I had a neighborhood meeting at our home in the evening. A new neighbor (an American) asked why I always wore a kilt but was polite and interested.

A good day in a kilt.

[Colin]

Ah, the Quiet Man...what a great film. I saw the film just before my wife and I went to Ireland a few years ago. We ended up seeing a lot of sights from the film, as the communities that served as locations still have a certain pride about that movie.

Yes, the bare feet running in the Irish country side, the red hair flowing..........

I spent my day with an adorable Irish girl named Fiona (my 1 year old daughter) and my son Kynan. I couldn't have imagined a better day than just the three of us. Of course it would have been nice if my wife were in town too.

[Celt]

Took the day off work, as I usually do. Wife and I (kilted, of course, in the Irish National) started at our regular bagel shop, then proceeded to an Irish pub
http://www.feniansirishpub.com/home.htm for the very short parade into the pub. Then to an artsy-touristy town south of us, where we bar-hopped through several rounds of our usual haunts for the rest of the day.
Overwhelmingly positive and enthusiastic responses. Many requests for pictures, no kilt checks, (drat) and only one mildly foolish question.
Only regret is that I didn't take today off, also, for recovery.

[al' Sporrano]

I had a St. Paddy's Day that was special to me. It was the St. Paddy's Day I'd been wanting to have for years.

I worked late on a kilt until everyone had gone to bed. Then I popped open a beer and sat down in front of the TV and put in a movie I'd been wanting to watch again for some ten years. Half way through the movie I got up, poured a couple of fingers of Bushmills, opened another beer and sat down to watch the rest.

The movie was The Quiet Man with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. It had been so long since I'd seen it that I'd forgotten much of it. I remembered the way it made me feel a decade ago and some of the highlights but there were all the little touches I'd forgotten. It was like seeing it for the first time. It is the closest thing to a perfect movie I've seen. It was also the movie that John Ford most wanted to make and was most happy with.

Maureen O'Hara in bare feet running on the Irish hills, her red hair as wild as the land itself, well she nearly stopped my heart.

All in all, a grand night. Peaceful and relaxing. I don't get nearly enough of either.

Erin go bragh

I had a similar night, Bear. I had had a particularly tiring day at work so crashed out in my kilt with a pint of Guinness. Watched a bit of TV, then started Philip Pullmans 'Northern lights' (the first book in the trilogy 'His Dark Materials'

I bought a video of The Quiet Man just a few weeks ago for my wife. She'd recently been on the 'location tour' and wanted to see the film. It's a good watch. She looked out for all the locations and I counted the kilts!

Al

[Colin]

Ryan's Daughter isn't bad either.

[Kiltedmusiclover]

The movie was The Quiet Man with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. ....It is the closest thing to a perfect movie I've seen.

Erin go bragh

The first time I saw The Quiet Man was last year just before my
first trip to Ireland. I had only heard about the movie just a few
months before that. It was truly unusual for me sinceI am a big John Wayne fan. I own many of his movies but had never even heard of The Quite Man.
I too was moved when I saw it.
It truly is a GREAT Movie!

Another movie I would recommend is Waking Ned Devine.
It captures the Irish people and their interaction with each other
in a contemporary setting. It too is one of my favorites.

A good Scottish movie is Local Hero. It also gives a good look
at the 80’s culture and how Scotland (any place that makes you feel at home)
can change you.