My first weekend in the kilt

**LordDamax** · 8th July 05, 07:04 PM

the saga continues... was gonna wear it for the 4th of july fireworks. my wife threatened to leave me, not just leave the fireworks, but leave ME if i wore it out to the park with her. she didnt tell this to me, but to the friends we were going with. "if he shows up in that thing i'm taking our son and going".

Odd thing is, a few days later i took my son up to my mom's house in NJ (I'm in MD) and wore the kilt... one of her big 'things' was not wearing it around her. well, i was leaving, not with her... so i wore it. she actually said "i dont get it, dont know why you'd wanna wear it" to which i told her thats all I ask... just repect me and respect my rigiht to wear it... don't ridicule me. acceptace would be great, but i'll settle for tolerance. then she was actually flirting with me trying to lift it up outside when we were loading the kid into the car. she played it off as 'someone else may do that to you you should be embarassed' but it came off more as flirting if you ask me.

so... maybe all isnt lost? i dunno. the woman is bi-polar if you ask me. ;)

ps. excuse the terrible lack of caps. my son ripped the left shift key off my keyboard, using the right one just isnt natural :-)

**Bob C** · 8th July 05, 08:02 PM

They're ALL bi-polar, LD.

**highlander_Daz** · 9th July 05, 02:15 AM

Women-luckily most scots women like kilts, however English ones are not quite as enthuseastic, its up to you what you wear my friend, most wives/friends need a reason theys ask WHY all the time even as a Scot people as WHY are you wearing that. Whats the occasion? one of my English friends always says "well I bought it to wear for a wedding and I just thought it was great so I wear it as often as I can its pretty cool and different do you not think??" most people say "ohh yeh I see yeh its pretty cool" or invent some long distand scots ancester/ Rob Roy /William Wallace etc

give them a reason and they will be happy, if you just keep saying "because I want to" then people will jump to their own conclusions (cross dresser/mid life crisis) etc etc.