Semi-Rant

[AnimalK]

Last night I went to a local watering hole that I have visited kilted on several occasions. With one exception, (the band last week had a kilted drummer) I am usually the only man in a kilt here. The place usually has a dozen or more Harleys out front but no 1%ers. I just ordered a beer and was moving to a place where I could listen to the band, when I felt the "tug and draft". I turned around and caught a woman redhanded with a handful of my SK Rob Roy hem about 12 inches North of where it should have been. I told her in no uncertain terms, "That was very rude and totally uncalled for." She then said "I just wanted to see what was under there..." RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER DATE/HUSBAND (whatever)

This got me a little perturbed. So I said to her, "What you did was very rude and unladylike, and I'd appreciate it if you didn't do that."

"Why not?" was the petulant response.

I said, "You wouldn't appreciate someone reaching up your dress, would you??"

She said "Yes I would."

I said, "Figures..." and turned away.

She replied with "F@#$ YOU!!" (three times)

I retorted with "Not in THIS lifetime, babe."

THE PLOT GETS STUPIDER

A few moments later, her apparently undersexed and overblown chopperjockey manfriend in a sleeveless denim fashion shirt comes over to me and says "What's YOUR problem with her?"

I said, "I don't have a problem with her, but apparently you do."

He says "She was just fooling around, she didn't mean nothin..."

I replied with a restatement of how rude her actions were, and that I didn't appreciate it.

He apologized and I offered to buy him a beer.

I go buy one, take it to him and he refuses (I saw him talking to another patron, pointing me out maybe looking for backup to try and kick my kilted butt). I didn't have the heart to tell him that he was talking to a guy I've met before and who actually thinks I'm pretty cool for having the cojones to wear a kilt in a biker bar...

Even if this asshat thinks he could kick my butt, I think he'd have made the last in a long line of Very Bad Decisions (choosing the snapperhead for a date was one of 'em)

Just ranting about the distinct lack of manners in someone you'd presume had better upbringing...

[ardchoille]

Sounds to me like that kind of person isn't worth your time, don't let them steal your power

[DTrain]

Sounds like you showed enormous restraint and still you offered to buy him a beer? Should have been the other way around. Some people have NO class. Next time, offer them this view :butt:

[ardchoille]

Sounds like you showed enormous restraint and still you offered to buy him a beer? Should have been the other way around. Some people have NO class. Next time, offer them this view :butt:

I think she already got that view

[acstoon]

You took the road of restraint... congrats to you.
I agree... you were minding your own business... they should be buying YOU a beer.
People of that ilk are not worth it.

besides... with this part:
I said, "You wouldn't appreciate someone reaching up your dress, would you??"
She said "Yes I would."
I said, "Figures..." and turned away.
She replied with "F@#$ YOU!!" (three times)

You obviously struck a nerve, regarding her character, judging by her triple response.

[Perldog007]

My young brother, I respectfully submit that the mistake may have been yours. Why would you presume that some female in a "biker bar" to have better upbringing?

I have had otherwise hard working, intelligent, respectable young ladies do worse when I was in chef's clothes. The girls I am referring to count my wife as a friend! Alcohol lowers inhibitions. They thought it was cute at the time. My son still thinks they are very disturbed and in need of therapy.

I rode year round 24/7 for many years, the s' you find playing biker on the weekends in nice weather are another breed.

Granted she should have had more class. The not-quite-alpha-male could have done a better job of acting like a man, but assuming that a woman out playing 'property of' either has upbringing or takes note of same could reasonably be called a mistake.

Still I think it was a shame that this seemed okay to the gathered. Reversing those roles could result in big trouble, legal or extra-legal.

You made no mistake in showing restraint and class where a lesser man would have let emotion carry the day. For that I salute you. Well Done!

[J Pendleton]

You are in the best place to vent. This has happened to my husband several times.....women come up to him asking what's worn under his kilt. He says, "Nothing. All parts are fully functional." I am baffled as to why so many think this is perfectly acceptable to either try to sneak a peak or ask that question.

I liked a T-shirt I saw one of the athletes wore at the Maine Highland Games this past weekend: "It's a kilt. If I wore something under it, it would be a skirt." Case closed!

[NewKilt]

You certainly handled a very stressful situation very well. I can only imagine what could have happen had the roles been reversed - a fight, picked up by police, charged with sexual harassment, etc.

Very well done.

Darrell

[Kid Cossack]

Jerks.

I was at a bar in Houston called the Fox and Hound a few weeks back, ran into four people, three of them from Glasgow (oddly enough) and one of them a pure-dee California jerk. We've got our share of local jerks, so the California is more geographical than pejorative.

For some reason I thought of Steve Martin in Roxanne, explaining about his big nose, and the jerk from California just kept pestering me about the kilt, not the question, just the kilt, so each time he asked me (since the Glaswegians were buying me a whisky each time the jerk pestered me about the kilt) I answered, and differently.

Examples: "What is it about the kilt?" (Said snidely.)

(Boastful.) "With legs like these, lad, it'd be a crime not to show 'em off."

(More boastful.) "Some of us just need a little more room." (Leaning back and hitching at the sporran some.)

(Mysterious.) "For those who understand, no explanation is necessary . . . for those who don't understand, no explanation would suffice . . . ."

(Rude.) "It's my built in assh*** detector. Aha! It's detecting an assh*** already, nice to know it still works!"

The Glaswegians went from embarrassed to mortified to finally amused by the jerk. (They were in town together for a conference or something.) Oddly enough, they did seem genuinely curious as to why I was wearing the kilt at my waist and not my hips.

The kilt outfit in question? Eight yard custom USAK semitraditional in the US Army tartan, brown Doc Martens (shoes not boots), green hose pushed down, khaki collarless dress shirt.

The whisky in question? Balvenie. I was willing to sit there and sip free Balvenie and let the jerk make a jerk out of himself all night, and I certainly didn't want to "turn tail." I also had a mug of water sitting beside me, and I knew the bartender and one of the guys working security, and I don't start fights.

There are fools in this world of ours. Heck, I've played the fool once or twice, myself. (Maybe even thrice. Maybe.) I don't have a chip on my shoulder about wearing a kilt. I try to interact with fools as little as possible, and I try not to let them bother me.

I'm sorry you ran into some fools.

[AnimalK]

Most people at that watering hole have been cool with it. I even get at least one phone # from the women each time I go. I would say 99% of the responses are positive. But, as the saying goes "there's always ONE..."

(I went down the street at 1:30 to another of my haunts and got the one phone # of the night...Gotta maintain my streak...)

As a LEO, I try to defuse a tense situation, de-escalate if you will; but I was prepared, in the "lizard" portion of my brain, to finish (in a particularly swift, messy, and brutal manner) any fight this guy may have been contemplating upon my shy and retiring personage...

Thanks for the opportunity to vent a little.