This reminds me of a number of things that happened one day at work a few years back that would not have happened if I had worn kilts at the time.

We had a first production run of a new product scheduled for 7 in the evening, so me and another engineer had to stay over to observe the production run. I went out to the assembly line about 6:30 to make sure the stock room had delivered the correct purchased parts. These were on a pallet on the floor. So I grabbed the bill of material and squatted down to check the parts against the bill. Suddenly, I felt the seat of my pants give way. I had split them completely open in front of about 275 production folks .

I used the bill of material to cover my back side and returned to the office. The other engineer, seeing what had happened to me, starting laughing and leaning backwards in his chair. Well he leaned too far and fell completely over backwards . After he recovered he went to the production floor while I sat in my office chair and called one of the engineers at home asking him to rush to WalMart to buy me a pair of pants. I had worn dark colored pants that day, and he brought me a pair that were on off white. Changing, I returned to the production floor where it was very obvious that I wasn't wearing the same pants as when I left.

When the production run finished, I bought a canned coke out of the vending machine in the break room and proceeded to spill it all over myself - my shirt and my new pants . I returned home to a shocked wife wondering what I had spilled all over myself and why I wasn't wearing the same pants that I wore to work . When I showed her the seat of the pants I wore to work . . . And my wife even after we had went to bed for the night . . . News travels fast at work so the people I ran into the next day . . . . Me . . . .

If any defective product got out that night it was all because of a pair of pants. So I'm all for allowing kilts in the workplace .

Darrell