So, here I am, wearing my new Utilikilt Christmas present this morning, when my sister mentions seeing someone else kilted recently at a local grocery store. Some unenlightened idiot makes a snide comment about our brethren to her, and since she knows I am kilted, she immediately turns and says, "It's a kilt, not a skirt. My brother wears one." The local intelligentia says back to her, "Is he...you know?" And she replies, "No - and if you saw him you wouldn't say anything!"

Over the years we have had our differences (what siblings don't), but to hear how she came to my defense without me even being there, well, I was touched.