This evening we went to a Gospel singers variety show. I wore my dark blue Utilikilt Mocker. At intermission I was waiting for my wife to come out of the bathroom, and a guy said to me, "Will you be playing now after the intermission?" I said, "Oh no, I am just wearing this because it is comfortable." He went on for a bit about me playing with the group with the pipes and drums.

He then said, and must not have wanted to accept my answer, "So, you are getting ready for St. Patrick's day, then?" I repeated and told him I wear a kilt a few times a week. He just sort of walked away then and didn't say any more.

Then I go back to our seats and there was a bunch of sweet, old ladies around where we were sitting. I kept standing for awhile before sitting, and one leaned down to me from the row behind and asked about the kilt. As soon as I started telling her about it, where they are made, and about tartan kilts too, suddenly all the little ol' ladies around us where leaning in and listening and commenting too. One lady said with a smile on her face, "They are nice and cool in the summer!" Then she said, "but for the winter I see you have knee socks on." I stepped back so they all could see. Then the concert was about to begin, and I heard her saying to the lady beside her, "And I just love men with nice legs!"

Then after the concert we stopped for gas and as I was paying inside, a guy walked in and asked if we had just come from practice. I explained again, and then he said he did know the pipes and drum teacher, whom I do know.

But I just find it odd, that now people are thinking Scottish kilts when they see a plain one. So that is good!

DALE.