Responses to my kilts

**Joel** · 25th November 07, 09:50 PM

Originally Posted by rdjmchris

Please tell me I aint the only one who caught this. I nearly got soda all over my laptop from laughing.

I failed to catch that.

But hey...a lil' euphemism never hurt anyone.

**pbpersson** · 15th January 08, 10:27 PM

Originally Posted by kilted in seattle

But I think the UK makes people stop and think about it. Is that dude wearing a skirt or is it a kilt? The local media here in Seattle periodically do bits on Utilikilt so a good portion of the population has heard of them.

A couple of weeks ago I was at a supermarket out in the east suburbs of Phoenix when I was totally shocked to hear what one of the female checkers yelled over to me:

"That's a Utilikilt isn't it? I really like those!"

**McFarkus** · 16th January 08, 09:01 AM

Your wife seems to have a very tolerant attitude towards the woman who was performing an ongoing kiltcheck

**CelticMedic** · 16th January 08, 10:06 AM

I was a little concerned about you mental state when i read the title of you post...my first though was "What are this mans kilts saying to him that he need to respond to them...and do they say it with a brogue?"
Well, good on you and your friends. Though it does show a bit of sexism that a woman can check under a mans kilt, but vice versais a no no. STAND UP FOR EQUAL PROTECTION MAN!!!

**Monkey@Arms** · 16th January 08, 10:48 AM

I was wearing my black denim UK in Berkeley, California last weekend visting friends. My wife noted that the friend's neighbor (a man) looked at me "as if I was crazy" but her comment to me was "He lives in Berkeley for god's sake, he should be used to seeing stranger things than that!"

Taking the friend's infant to the playground provided a teachable moment with two very young girls (under 4?) who came over giggling and wanted to know why I was wearing a skirt. I agreed it was a type of skirt, and explained about kilts in general. They took it all in, but concluded that it "was funny." I allowed that it fun at any rate.

The night before I wore an olive UK original out to dinner at a shopping center in the town of Emeryville. Its a very socially and ethnically diverse area, and there were no comments at all. The woman we ate with reported that at a software company she used to work at there was a kilt wearer in the IT dept. Sounded like he wore both modern and traditionals. Also dining with us were her sons --ages 14 and 21, and her mother, they took it all in stride.

Best regards,

Jake

**Bugbear** · 16th January 08, 10:59 AM

Originally Posted by pbpersson

A couple of weeks ago I was at a supermarket out in the east suburbs of Phoenix when I was totally shocked to hear what one of the female checkers yelled over to me:

"That's a Utilikilt isn't it? I really like those!"

I don't wear UKs, But I do wear BKs as well as wool kilts. I am over here in between AJ and east Mesa, and most of the check out people at the stores and just people in general say something like "Nice Kilt" or something. I know there are other BK kakhi wearers out here because people tell me that they see them from time to time at the Homedepot and Lowes. I do get asked if I'm Scottish a lot, but that's OK... I guess I kind of am through the family past. It's very nice to have someone tell you that you look good in a kilt while standing in the grocery line or something.

**string** · 16th January 08, 12:52 PM

If I had been your wife I might have been more possessive, but I've never been good at sharing.

**kilted in seattle** · 16th January 08, 08:34 PM

Well, her attitude is there is sharing and then there is sharing.

I don't even want to think about what would happen if there are italics involved. Death would be welcome.

**pbpersson** · 16th January 08, 09:33 PM

Originally Posted by Ted Crocker

I don't wear UKs, But I do wear BKs as well as wool kilts. I am over here in between AJ and east Mesa

I actually live in Queen Creek but do most of my shopping in Gilbert because Queen Creek is too new to have many stores.

Originally Posted by Ted Crocker

I do get asked if I'm Scottish a lot, but that's OK... I guess I kind of am through the family past. It's very nice to have someone tell you that you look good in a kilt while standing in the grocery line or something.

I get asked ALL THE TIME if I am Scottish. I was in a checkout line at Target and the lady checker asked, "Is that a kilt?" I answered, "Yes, but I'm not Scottish." She gave me a blank look and said, "I didn't think you needed to be Scottish, I thought guys just wore them because they were comfortable."

BLESS HER HEART!