Well, I took my trip out to Columbus, Ohio to see my in-laws for the first-time in my kilt. I was out there seven days and most days, it simply wasn't an issue. My mother and father-in-law had no comments at all on my kilt and made it really easy for me to forget I was even wearing a kilt.

My sister-in-law said that I looked good in the kilt and that when she'd told her friends about it, they said it was cool.

One night, a friend of her and my wife came over and he said he really admired me wearing the kilt. He said he was interested in getting one. As my wife makes Kilts (i.e Through King Kilts), he asked if the one I was wearing was made by her. I told him, no, but that we had brought one she made. He asked to try on. You have to undestand I'm about six feet, three inches tall and he's about five feet, four inches tall with about half my waist line. He tried on the kilt, but it went about 3/4 of the way down his calves. He showed a classic case of Foot-in-Mouth disease by saying, "Wow, my father would have disowned me, too if I wore this."

My wife explained that the kilt didn't fit right because he was too small for mine, but that if he ordered one, it'd be made for him.

We went to the Columbus zoo and there were Amish people at the zoo the same day. My wife used to wear pants, but switched to wearing skirts all the time, but she doesn't stand out as much as the Amish people.

My sister-in-law remarked, "I'm glad you didn't become Amish. It'd be embarrassing having everyone look at you all the time." I thought it was extraordinary that she was saying this while walking with me through the zoo while I was wearing my Amerikilt.

My wife made some comments out of my sister-in-law's earshot about the Amish were dressed funny and I told her not to make fun of them because of how they dressed.

A few minutes later, while I was kneeling down to get a drink from a low water fountain, my sister-in-law noticed the Amish had been watching me and giving me strange looks.

She said, "It's bad when the Amish are giving you strange looks."

With that, I playfully splashed her with water from the water fountain.