What's the best reaction you've gotten to your wearing a kilt?

[David Thorpe]

Overheard while filling my tank at a local gas station on my way to a St. Patrick's Day celebration, from a man to his wife, "Now there's a real Irishman."

From my four-year-old grand-niece as I inexcusably walked between her an the big screen TV, "You look kinda weird."

[Kinetikat]

A double-take!

[crboltz]

I don't know if it was the best, but it was pretty good (and recent). My husband and I drove to San Francisco to see a play ("Endgame" staring Bill Irwin). BUT before the show, I dragged him to the newly opened fantatstic ice cream and chocolate shop about 4 blocks from the theatre. As we entered the mall where the ice cream shop was, four girls ran up to my husband and asked if he could take a picture of them standing with me. (They wanted his permission not mine). Oh well, I got my picture taken with three young women with extraordinarily good taste. And my husband had a huge smirk on his face.

Cheers
Chris

[be da veva]

a drunken panhandler saw me and exclaimed happily and loudly, "Hey Switzerland!!" Don't think anyone will ever top that one for me.

I don't know if I can top it, but being asked if I played the harmonica comes pretty close...

[Harold Cannon]

Lets see in high school I had my picture made with the entire JV and Varsity Cheerleading squads and with most all of them individually.

Then on last St. Patricks Day I went out with a friend to and Irish pub and a drunk lady just came up and started fondling my sporran and hollering WOOO SEXY!

Then on my wedding day a female police officer had to have her picture made with me at the courthouse. She asked my permission not my future wifes. LOL!

[sydnie7]

Other than the typo in the title stopping me cold?

Wore a Clan Donnachaidh T-shirt to one of the big-box stores. IIRC the shirt had wolf's-head design and clan name on the back. Young man helping me get a large purchase out to the car asked me if that was Mayan or Aztec. . .

[Mickey]

One of the more enjoyable ones, at least for me, was when we were in our local Scottish shop snooping around, and a woman came in with her husband. She was clearly trying to get him interested in a kilt and he kept shaking his head, chuckling, etc. She came to the mannequin in full PC and was trying to show him the fur sporran, explaining how good he would look with it. I was around a rack and he hadn't yet seen me. He asked her incredulously what in the world he would put in it. That's when I walked up to him and said, opening my sporran, "well, I keep my phone, keys, wallet, smoke case, things like that in it.. Kilts don't have pockets, you know". He's looking at me like must work in the store when my son walks up next to me in his usual getup and blue deer sporran.

He then starting asking a lot of standard questions (where do you where it, are they comfortable, etc) and after a while finally understood. When we left he was actually paying attention to his wife and holding kilts up to himself in the mirror. I hope she got him turned

A double-take!

I'm pretty sure it wasn't just the kilt that drew that response

[David Thorpe]

Other than the typo in the title stopping me cold?

Thanks for pointing that out. I totally missed it. That's a knee-slapper.

[Jackson]

Switzerland! Harmonica! Now, that's funny right there, I don't care who you are!!

Jackson

[Kiltboy]

My favorite, while walking through the parking lot to the grocery store,... a motorist kept staring at me as he drove up, past, and finally over a large concrete curb. The height of the car bounce and sound of the crunch told the fate of his front end and one tire. When I exited the store, he was trying to explain the situation to the tow truck driver and his (assumed) wife.