OK, a new one for me...

[Zardoz]

We have all had to deal with "expert" input from the non-kilted public now and then, and they are usually variations on same themes about tartans, regimental, etc... But I had a new one at the pub last night!
One of the waitresses was telling me how much she liked my kilt, (for the record, I was sporting the Bluebonnet tartan, with green hose, red flashes and green shirt) and after the initial pleasantries she leans in and says "you should wear some white socks though" !?!
I half expected to see a bunch of Xmarkers jump out of hiding! After I figured out she meant it, I asked "what? you don't like like my socks?" And she says "they look nice, but, you know, those bagpipe guys wear those big white socks" I guess her whole experience with guys in kilts was seeing "those bagpipe guys" every once and a while, so there's where that info came from!
I assured her that kilt hose came in lots of colors, and (for simplicity's sake) that white ones where mostly for pipe bands. She seemed OK with that, and I got a free pint!

Up till then the most interesting interaction that night was with two jeans wearing Scotsmen who asked my wife how long I'd been in Houston, and seemed disappointed when she said four generations!