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

**Andy Ternay** · 4th June 12, 05:08 PM

My signature tells the tale.

**SeumasA** · 4th June 12, 07:43 PM

I was walking into the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas when a woman coming out the door looked me up and down and blurted out "You're amazing". My wife laughed about it all weekend.

**BudTX** · 4th June 12, 08:16 PM

Women smile and get chatty. Most men cast sideways glances and won't make eye contact.

**Andy Ternay** · 4th June 12, 08:19 PM

Originally Posted by BudTX

Women smile and get chatty. Most men cast sideways glances and won't make eye contact.

I find that to be true especially with Latino men. My guess is that they often lack the cultural frame of reference and just don't get it.

**Dale Seago** · 4th June 12, 08:20 PM

Hmm. . .

My eyes somehow missed the typo in the title of the thread.

In that case. . .

Well, the best 'rection is still probably what I posted.

Unless it was the lass who told me at a Hielan' games that she'd love to get me off in the bushes and gift me with a (NATO phonetics here) Bravo Juliet under my kilt.

Alas, though, given that I was married at the time and that she (as my student) and my 8th-dan wife knew each other, that was SO not happening.

Originally Posted by Dale Seago

Best reaction?

Okay, back in the days when I didn't even have a modern kilt yet (for whatever weird reason, I decided to start with the late 1500s and work my way forward from there), I went -- I thought -- to a Scottish event in Marin County north of San Francisco. I took along a couple of other Bujinkan instructor friends, a married couple.

Somehow I hadn't found out that the event had been canceled.

So we ended up going for brunch to a Marin restaurant, my friends in their civvies and me in my belted plaid with pampooties and dirk.

As we sat down, my friends told me "We were watching people's reactions as we walked to our table, and we could SO get you a date in this place!"

Then our waitress came, 20-something and lovely and starry-eyed and blushing, and thanking ME for blessing (her words) the establishment with my presence.

I thanked her for her kindness with a "Blessed be, and merry meet!".

We had a fantastic meal. As for the rest, well. . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_cA1CRAmBA

**Sharkblock** · 4th June 12, 10:48 PM

I was at a Jamba Juice today with two pals in a kilt and a black fatigue jacket and a gentleman approached me and asked me why I was wearing a kilt. I told me "Well, it's illegal to be naked." He chuckled a bit and told me he use to wear kilts when he was a boy and that he actually visited Scotland not to long ago and that the temperatures were actually in the 80F's! I also noticed he was wearing a jacket with the words "Saint Andrew" on it.