Folks Seem To Remember Kilted Gents Well

[Riverkilt]

So for the past ten years I've been attending a professional training conference in Tucson, AZ every August. Kilted of course. Great conference of 1,000 addictions therapists. Attraction is great presenters and getting all the necessary annual training done in one place in one week.

This year, some recent surgery precluded wearing kilts to the conference so I'm here in cargo shorts. From the time I first pulled up to the hotel staff was asking, "Where's your kilt?" As peer therapists began arriving they all asked the same thing, "Where's the kilt?" I am amazed at the source of that questions. Folks I "know" from the conference, but don't know personally.

The conference has always had a heavy Native American attendance and many of the "where's the kilt?" questions are coming from Apache and Navajo men and women.

Guess its further proof that kilts make a positive lasting impression.

[Riverkilt]

Thud.......

Comments continued today....next year will return kilted....

[Gibtron]

I agree, it seems in my travels the hotels know me as the guy in the kilt long before they remember my name. hehe

[RCAnderson]

I teach CPR classes wearing a kilt every day and I see the same thing. People sometimes can't remember my name, but they always remember the CPR instructor that wears the kilt, lol.

[Tarheel]

We've never met (except here). I've seen your kilts and enjoyed all the photo treks you've shown us. The conference attendees will now remember you as the kilted, surgically enhanced peer.

[Geoff Withnell]

Michele and I eat out often. We also tend to tip well for good service. The combination of my being in the kilt, and tipping well results in wait staff quickly remembering us, and being eager to be assigned to our table.

[Kiltboy]

Michele and I eat out often. We also tend to tip well for good service. The combination of my being in the kilt, and tipping well results in wait staff quickly remembering us, and being eager to be assigned to our table.

Boy is that true. I've seen arguments over who works my table. It's all true. (Except for the part about eating with someone named Michele)

[Mike in Dayton]

Michele and I eat out often. We also tend to tip well for good service. The combination of my being in the kilt, and tipping well results in wait staff quickly remembering us, and being eager to be assigned to our table.

I eat out a lot myself and tend to go to the same venues. It does not take long to get attached to a favorite server. The kilt does leave an impression. A few years back I had a regular server I would ask for at this one place. One day I walked in and asked for her like always. As the hostess was taking me to my table I heard one of the new girls say to my server "you got the kilt guy again. You had him last week. That's not fair". From then on I had to alternate between the two.

A new bar and grill opened up not far from where I live a few months ago. I have been there a few times but not enough to be considered a regular. I went there Saturday night and got a server I had not seen before. As I was getting ready to leave she walked up to me and told me the nights she worked there and to ask for her when I come back. Ok, well, I guess I have a new regular server at that place.

Coming back from my first Kilt Kamp in Victoria a few years ago I was on a flight from Chicago to Dayton. Final leg of my trip home. When I got off of the plane a man approached and said he remembered me on the outbound flight Dayton to Chicago a week before. Of course I was the only one in a kilt on that full flight so easy to remember.

So yes, folks do remember us kilted gents.

[tpa]

So for the past ten years I've been attending a professional training conference in Tucson, AZ every August. Kilted of course. Great conference of 1,000 addictions therapists. Attraction is great presenters and getting all the necessary annual training done in one place in one week.

This year, some recent surgery precluded wearing kilts to the conference so I'm here in cargo shorts. From the time I first pulled up to the hotel staff was asking, "Where's your kilt?" As peer therapists began arriving they all asked the same thing, "Where's the kilt?" I am amazed at the source of that questions. Folks I "know" from the conference, but don't know personally.

The conference has always had a heavy Native American attendance and many of the "where's the kilt?" questions are coming from Apache and Navajo men and women.

Guess its further proof that kilts make a positive lasting impression.

Take it as a complement that they recognise you without your kilt. I've found people, from previous conferences, that I don't remember, recognise me because of the kilt, but I am never sure whether they would without it. But maybe they have a better memory for faces than I have. Not difficult. I have also found there is also a disproportionate amount of interest from ethnic minorities.

[Riverkilt]

This afternoon the conference photographer grabbed me coming out of a training workshop and asked to take my photo for their newsletter as someone who's been coming to the conference for many years....she also commented on the kilt but wanted the "old timer" photo more.

A workshop asked for my "mission statement" in two words....its "RETIRE SOON." Too old for this stuff.