Kilted comment at Fresno Hotel

[hospitaller]

This morning as I was waiting outside the hotel for my airport shuttle (wearing my kilt of course), this HUGE guy (as in easily 6'3" and muscles all over) walks out and goes on past me, then he suddenly stops, turns around and slowly walks towards me, when it is clear that he is walking towards ME, I start to get a bit apprehensive about the whole thing, so I cross my arms and get ready for what it is to come.

So, he gets about 2 feet in front of me and in a low voice asks me 'do you have anything against solid colored kilts?', the question surprised me a bit but since I own the ones I've made myself I told him that no, I don't mind them and I own a few.

Turns out he's from New York, a member of the local St Andrew society and he is one of the organizers for next year's Burns' Supper, some more small chat, we shake hands (his shake was more like a bruising, dude was HUGE) and he starts walking away.

So the other guys that were with me attending the seminar give me a look, you know, like what was all that about?

At one point, Muscle man turns around and yells back that 'had I known how many girls I could get I would have started wearing kilts before getting married!!', at this point I told everyone in my group that 'what did I tell you guys?'

We had dinner a few nights prior and of course at one point the topic was me and kilts in general and one of the things I told them was that, as we all know....women LOVE men in kilts.

hehe, rack another one to the kilted stories!

[csbdr]

LOL!! That's a great story! Chris

[McMathTX]

Great story! Unfortunately for me a few weeks ago, I was at a restaurant in Anastasia FL (just outside St. Augustine) and a huge dude took great exception to my kilt. He never said anything directly to me, but let it be known that men in dresses needed their @sses kicked. I was in a rather large group and he got pretty immediate feedback. He hunched down and sulked over his dinner the rest of his stay. I wondered if he would be waiting outside for me, but he apparently thought better of it.

[BEEDEE]

Great story - I'm glad it went well

As for this one-

Great story! Unfortunately for me a few weeks ago, I was at a restaurant in Anastasia FL (just outside St. Augustine) and a huge dude took great exception to my kilt. He never said anything directly to me, but let it be known that men in dresses needed their @sses kicked. I was in a rather large group and he got pretty immediate feedback. He hunched down and sulked over his dinner the rest of his stay. I wondered if he would be waiting outside for me, but he apparently thought better of it.

some people just don't know which end of the horse they are.

Brian

[Carolina Kiltman]

Great story - I'm glad it went well

As for this one-

some people just don't know which end of the horse they are.

Brian

Reminds me of a sign in many truckstops some years back: " Vhy is dere zo minny mor orzez azzez dan dere be horzez?"

[Cassidy]

Great story! Unfortunately for me a few weeks ago, I was at a restaurant in Anastasia FL (just outside St. Augustine) and a huge dude took great exception to my kilt. He never said anything directly to me, but let it be known that men in dresses needed their @sses kicked. I was in a rather large group and he got pretty immediate feedback. He hunched down and sulked over his dinner the rest of his stay. I wondered if he would be waiting outside for me, but he apparently thought better of it.

Sometimes you need to show a little steam in those situations, and they'll back off.

I once got into a tough little situation walking alone in the evening in my kilt, where three young men close to my age approached me and started giving me crap about it. I was trying to politely get it over with and move on, but one of them said something to the effect of him wanting to beat me up.

I just looked him dead in the eye and asked him, "Do you really want your little buddies here to have to tell everyone that you got the snot stomped out of you by a man in a skirt?" I then walked straight past him, catching him with my shoulder, and said "Evening," not looking at them at all.

They just walked away.

[rollerboy_1979]

Great story! Unfortunately for me a few weeks ago, I was at a restaurant in Anastasia FL (just outside St. Augustine) and a huge dude took great exception to my kilt. He never said anything directly to me, but let it be known that men in dresses needed their @sses kicked. I was in a rather large group and he got pretty immediate feedback. He hunched down and sulked over his dinner the rest of his stay. I wondered if he would be waiting outside for me, but he apparently thought better of it.

Right here, in the same thread, we have two totally divergent stories about how men respond to kilts. Luckily, Hospitaller's gentleman was just that, a gentleman (a big one at that) and the norm. This other sniveling coward is obviously low on self-esteem if he has to aggrandize himself in a restaurant by calling a traditionally manly garment a dress; luckily he's in the minority. With all of society's problems, why choose to take issue with the manner in which someone is dressed? Only a sociopath would do that. Too bad you didn't have the opportunity to do the Hiemlich maneuver on him....then you could have said, "How does it feel to have your life saved by a man in a dress?". LOL!

RB

[Dr Mac]

Regardless, you gotta

[Jack Daw]

Two good stories!

[CactusJack]

Great stories...