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    Little kid update: My pipe band rehearses at a local middle school on Wednesday evenings. Since we're preparing for a competition, we rehearse in the parking lot.

    Today, my youngest (12) and I were standing in the shade near the locked entrance to the school, waiting for band mates to arrive. A soccer team of five-year-olds was practicing in a nice big green space near the school. One of the youngsters needed to use the restroom, so she and her young dad jogged over to the school in hopes that a door might be unlocked. No such luck.

    They got to door my son and I were near, and when she saw it was locked, she looked really disappointed until she saw my son and I holding our pipes.

    "Can you let me in to go potty when you go in?" she asked, very earnestly. I explained we weren't going in, that we were practicing outside.

    "Then why do you have those?" she asked, pointing at the pipes. Well, I said, we practice outside. We're just waiting in the shade for others to get here.

    "Oh," she said. Long pause, then she asked, "Are you going to put on a dress?"

    That's when her dad said, "Uhhh, honey, we need to get back to practice." He'd turned a wonderful shade of red.

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    Since I don't drive, I have to walk most places. I was coming back from a lovely GHP practice at a park when I wandered into Dairy Queen with full kilt and pipes. I'm walking in when some lass (5ish? 6ish?) ended up pointing at me and with a very serious voice told her mother "There is a stranger here."

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    Quote Originally Posted by jeremy j starche View Post
    Since I don't drive, I have to walk most places. I was coming back from a lovely GHP practice at a park when I wandered into Dairy Queen with full kilt and pipes. I'm walking in when some lass (5ish? 6ish?) ended up pointing at me and with a very serious voice told her mother "There is a stranger here."
    LOL! The under-statement of the century? Too funny!
    The spirit of the Declaration of Arbroath (6 April 1320) abides today, defiantly resisting any tyranny that would disarm, disperse and despoil proud people of just morals, determined to keep the means of protecting their families and way of life close at hand.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phogfan86 View Post
    Little kid update: My pipe band rehearses at a local middle school on Wednesday evenings. Since we're preparing for a competition, we rehearse in the parking lot.

    Today, my youngest (12) and I were standing in the shade near the locked entrance to the school, waiting for band mates to arrive. A soccer team of five-year-olds was practicing in a nice big green space near the school. One of the youngsters needed to use the restroom, so she and her young dad jogged over to the school in hopes that a door might be unlocked. No such luck.

    They got to door my son and I were near, and when she saw it was locked, she looked really disappointed until she saw my son and I holding our pipes.

    "Can you let me in to go potty when you go in?" she asked, very earnestly. I explained we weren't going in, that we were practicing outside.

    "Then why do you have those?" she asked, pointing at the pipes. Well, I said, we practice outside. We're just waiting in the shade for others to get here.

    "Oh," she said. Long pause, then she asked, "Are you going to put on a dress?"

    That's when her dad said, "Uhhh, honey, we need to get back to practice." He'd turned a wonderful shade of red.
    Maybe I'm just naive; but, I don't get it... What *do* pipes have to do with wearing a dress or going indoors? I presume you were already kilted??? Perhaps an explanation of the sub-text by PM? If you weren't already kilted, that would make more sense.
    The spirit of the Declaration of Arbroath (6 April 1320) abides today, defiantly resisting any tyranny that would disarm, disperse and despoil proud people of just morals, determined to keep the means of protecting their families and way of life close at hand.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fit2BKilted View Post
    Maybe I'm just naive; but, I don't get it... What *do* pipes have to do with wearing a dress or going indoors? I presume you were already kilted??? Perhaps an explanation of the sub-text by PM? If you weren't already kilted, that would make more sense.
    We were standing by the door. We just happened to be holding our pipes. I guess she assumed that we were going inside because we were standing by the door.

    And I thought it was kind of funny that the little girl connected the dots between pipes and kilts, even if she didn't know the correct name for kilts.

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