First general outing...

**MACKAY** · 13th August 07, 11:15 AM

Originally Posted by Perldog007

Sounds like a great first outing. If you really like the stares permit me to be bold enough to recommend:

5. Tractor Supply Store or Southern States.

Happy Kilting -- Doug

Have worn my Utilikilts Workmans to Tractor Supply and Home Depot - received nothing but positive comments. The guys at Tractor Supply wanted to know if it was a Carhart kilt!

**beowulf67** · 13th August 07, 11:29 AM

Originally Posted by Perldog007

Sounds like a great first outing. If you really like the stares permit me to be bold enough to recommend:

1. Advanced Auto Parts

2. Food Lion

3. Dollar General Store

4. The Olive Garden, Red Lobster, or TGI Friday's.

5. Tractor Supply Store or Southern States.

Happy Kilting -- Doug

Hey watch it! No badmouthing of Southern states allowed.

Unless you were born here. Like me.

We do have a fine collection of in-bred, backward a$$ country folks and they might give you a strange look now and again. On the other hand, most of them look strange all the time so who would notice?

Besides I've met plenty of redneck bumpkins from north of the Mason-Dixon line.

**MysticMead** · 13th August 07, 11:53 AM

Originally Posted by Perldog007

Sounds like a great first outing. If you really like the stares permit me to be bold enough to recommend:

1. Advanced Auto Parts

2. Food Lion

3. Dollar General Store

4. The Olive Garden, Red Lobster, or TGI Friday's.

5. Tractor Supply Store or Southern States.

Happy Kilting -- Doug

1. been there...done that... the kilt was no big deal... of course they were probably wondering if I was planning on working on my car kilted of if was I was going to put pants on...

2. I do that all the time.. the employees don't seem to notice (except this one cashier who stares and smiles a lot).. I have made a couple customers run their carts into the shelves.. ahhhh good times

3. I try to avoid that place... but have gone in kilted... time sort of stopped when I walked in the door...

4. those are always fun.. recently I was at Ryan's steak house and one lady almost dropped her plate of food when she saw my kilt

5. haven't done that one... but have gone kilted to Home Depot and Lowe's... the employee's a Lowe's knew that my UK was in fact a kilt..and several commented on how they liked it..

**James MacMillan** · 13th August 07, 10:33 PM

Originally Posted by Perldog007

Sounds like a great first outing. If you really like the stares permit me to be bold enough to recommend:

1. Advanced Auto Parts -well Kragen and Pep Boys

2. Food Lion -Is that like 7/11 ?

3. Dollar General Store -does WalMart count?

4. The Olive Garden, Red Lobster, or TGI Friday's. All three!

5. Tractor Supply Store or Southern States. Many southern states, and Farm Union should count, or Orchard Supply?

Happy Kilting -- Doug

Been there, Done that, Got the T-shirt!!

No guts, No glory!

**demobud** · 13th August 07, 11:35 AM

I think he was refereing to the Southern States Supply chain of stores, of which we don't have any in Alabama that I know of. We DO have Tractor's Supply which is where I went to get my external diesel tank for my truck, while wearing a kilt. You don't get much ribbing when you're buying stuff for heavy machinery (or when you qualify as heavy machinery; 6'1" 265lbs).

**beowulf67** · 13th August 07, 12:05 PM

Originally Posted by demobud

I think he was refereing to the Southern States Supply chain of stores, of which we don't have any in Alabama that I know of. We DO have Tractor's Supply which is where I went to get my external diesel tank for my truck, while wearing a kilt. You don't get much ribbing when you're buying stuff for heavy machinery (or when you qualify as heavy machinery; 6'1" 265lbs).

Gotcha!

Tractor supply is a great place.

**MysticMead** · 13th August 07, 09:04 PM

from North Georgia!

**cacunn** · 14th August 07, 04:44 AM

It should be mentioned that not too many years ago the Grand Dragon of the KKK lived about 20 miles from ACSTOON. The Grand Dragon lived less than 5 miles from Camp David (the Presidential retreat in the Maryland hills). This might give you a better understanding of the area ACSTOON lives in.

I'm about 10 miles down the road from ACSTOON and have gotten no comments yet, but I do enjoy the looks as I walk through WalMart, Lowes and other K-uality business in south central PA.

**acstoon** · 16th August 07, 02:49 PM

Originally Posted by cacunn

It should be mentioned that not too many years ago the Grand Dragon of the KKK lived about 20 miles from ACSTOON. The Grand Dragon lived less than 5 miles from Camp David (the Presidential retreat in the Maryland hills). This might give you a better understanding of the area ACSTOON lives in.

Huh... I never knew that fact

... I ride my bike in the Catoctin region, quite a good bit.
I'm well aware this area is has it's share of bigotry, but I don't play along... I've got better things to spend my time & efforts on.

(actually I was posting about Mercersburg, where I spent a good portion of my youth, not my current residence. I'm not a native to either locale)

**turpin** · 16th August 07, 07:18 PM

Originally Posted by acstoon

Now, a bit of background: this is a town of 1000 residents, very rural, very colloquial, and extremely set in their ways. Very stereotypical small-minded-blinders-on hick historical town stuff. The carnival is BIG time for a lot of these natives. Kind of comical, actually. Should write a book about the antics around there... nobody would believe it.

I think Thornton Wilder already wrote that book.

Congrats on a positive first outing in such a "tightly knit" community.