Kilted in Wal-Mart

[Donnie]

I wore my USAKilt to Wal-Mart today with my wife. Other than a few double takes there was very little notice taken! One lady did say something about me being a day early. She said that she thought the Rose of something was tommorrow. I didn't catch the last of it and she was gone before I could ask. Any body out there know what she might have been refering to? I had a great time kilted. I'll be doing it much more often!

[Blu (Ontario)]

Rosh Hashanah? That's sometime soon, isn't it?

[David Woodington]

Sorry not a clue

Dave

[Mychael Sporrano]

Not a clue on that, either. However, I had an interesting experience in sister-biz Sam's Warehouse Club on Monday afternoon that I thought I would share.

Of all the places that I frequent, Sam's Club is one place I rarely feel entirely comfortable kilted. No one says anything, but I get some odd looks and generally speaking it simply doesn't feel positive. Well, while standing in line to pay, the woman in front of me turned and asked me about my kilt: was I Scottish or Irish, play bagpipes, etc. She ended with a compliment. At this point the gentleman in front of her became involved. I had seem him earlier while shopping- he and a comrade were in tiger stripe camo Army uniforms and he shared that his name was Mario, adding that he was 100% Sicilian. Having been adopted into his friend's Macpherson clan, he also wore a kilt and was curious about my solid colored Pittsburgh Kilt. He then asked if I was regimental (first time a fellow has asked me that), making the woman blush and admit that she was curious about that as well but hadn't wanted to ask.


I admitted that I was wearing something beneath, which earned me a light-hearted chiding from Mario who said I should be ashamed of myself for breaking with tradition. At this point, the cashier way up at the front of the line became involved when she interjected that she was personally glad that I was not regimental. It was a regular party!


Before taking his leave, Mario took me aside and shared a joke that began,"There was a kilted Scot and an Irishman..."

You never know what can happen as a consequence of wearing the kilt.

Mychael

[seamus]

hmmm....maybe the Rose of Tralee festival up in Eire? anyone know about that?

[Jimmy Carbomb]

hmmm....maybe the Rose of Tralee festival up in Eire? anyone know about that?

It's in Tralee Kerry. The festival is where young ambitious, pretty, smart and talented ladies are nominated by businesses and academia to compete for the title. It's like a "beauty pagent" but this one is "beauty within". There's also a peom about the "Rose of Tralee".

The 2004 pageant was in August, about two weeks ago. There are, however, continuing celebrations elsewhere in the world... to say good-bye to the roses. Quite cool really.

[zeytoun]

Rosh Hashanah is not until the evening of the 15th, and would have been a somewhat odd utterance to a kilted stranger...I mean how are you going to perform tashlich with no pockets?

[bear]

Rosh Hashanah is not until the evening of the 15th, and would have been a somewhat odd utterance to a kilted stranger...I mean how are you going to perform tashlich with no pockets?

How would pockets help someone who is choking?

[zeytoun]

How would pockets help someone who is choking?

(tashlich is a Rosh Hashanah custom of emptying the lint and bread crumbs out of your pockets at a river or stream, and saying prayers, symbolizing "out with the old, in with the new". Side note, this practice was cited as evidence of the Jews poisoning the city water supplies in Europe many years ago)

Do I win first prize for turning the highest number of kilt-related threads into non-kilt-related threads?

[Bill]

Sorry Donnie I can't help with the rose thing either.

Mychaels' post reminded me of an encounter with my Pastor though. Our Churches' 125th anniversary is this month and celebrations are planned for the 24-25th while we were visting about that I mentioned casually that I was thinking about wearing my kilt for the occasion, his response was that he didn't see a problem with that and I should. Here's the funny part right on the heels of that he asked with a grin if I was going regimental I said given our North Dakota wind and not wanting to create "new" church memories I was considering not. He then asked if I had considered learning to play the pipes (almost as if one had to go with the other). I won't be the only one kilted on that occasion BTW we'll have a piper too 8)

I'll let everyone know how things turn out.

Bill