Dealing with Ignorance

[Kilted Rogue]

So i was out today (in my UK Original) and stopped by the local Harbor Freight Tool store. As this store is right by my house i frequent it often. I have been in there kilted a number of times, never have i heard what was said to me today.

I was Standing in line waiting to check out my son in my arms. This crusty gnarled man comes up close behind me and says out loud. "are you a man? you are wearing sumthin under that" Now I am no stranger to the off comments we get sometimes while kilted. I turned and in a project voice, not to loud. said "Yeah Last time i checked." and turned back around. the sales clerk was embarrassed for me, and apologized.

It wasnt her fault and told her as much, we all have heard it all in some form or fashion.

Just wanted to get that off my chest. now to bed!

[Inchessi]

Every now and then the wrong person catches us at the wrong time. If they didn't there would be a lot more Saints.

[SteveB]

While in full Highland kit at a big box retail store in the checkout line, a young male with a large group of his friends loudly asked me "Are you a man?" I very loudly answered "I sure am and are you?"

As I spend a large amount of money in the store, on their VIP program and always shop kilted, the manager was over in a flash. I asked her to be nice, as they were not really bothering me.

In the parking lot, while I was loading my purchases into my vehicle, one of the group approached me, and said "you have a lot ba((s to wear a skirt." I then explained politely about the kilt and its history. I also explained that my wearing of a kilt is a way that I choose to be attired and recognized by other people, much the same as he chose the method that he wished to wear his clothes.
We departed as friends.

Slainte

[Nighthawk]

Yeah, I had one of those today, myself. I was walking to 7-11 on my lunch break to get a cup of coffee, and some dimwit drove by me, yelled "Fag!" out his window, threw a cup of soda at me and drove away. Coward. I'd love to see how he would react to me face to face, given the fact that I'm 5 foot 10 and 280. It's great how he would attack my manhood while safely driving away. I made my bruised feeling all better by going to my 1.5 hour martial arts class and learning more ways to kill people like that!

[BroosterB1]

Yeah, I had one of those today, myself. I was walking to 7-11 on my lunch break to get a cup of coffee, and some dimwit drove by me, yelled "Fag!" out his window, threw a cup of soda at me and drove away. Coward. I'd love to see how he would react to me face to face, given the fact that I'm 5 foot 10 and 280. It's great how he would attack my manhood while safely driving away. I made my bruised feeling all better by going to my 1.5 hour martial arts class and learning more ways to kill people like that!

So very Zen if you......"I know at least 187 ways to kill you with out raising as much as a sweat, now be gone, you bother my sense of Karma".....That's our Nighthawk!

[TheKiltedCoder]

So very Zen if you......"I know at least 187 ways to kill you with out raising as much as a sweat, now be gone, you bother my sense of Karma".....That's our Nighthawk!

If you look at my intro post (about a year and a half ago), I'd mentioned that the thing that converted me to kilt wearing was the fact that the kilt was the only thing I'd worn other than my hapkido uniform that I felt I could effectively execute a face-height side kick while wearing.



Brian

[sathor]

, and some dimwit drove by me, yelled "Fag!" out his window, t

that only happens to me when I am riding my bike. Which is not when I am wearing a kilt.

[OC Richard]

some dimwit drove by me, yelled "Fag!" out his window, threw a cup of soda at me and drove away. Coward. I'd love to see how he would react to me face to face...

This reminds me of what happened to a drummer in our Pipe Band back in the early 1980's.

We had just played a fairly late gig so it was near midnight when, on the way home, he found he was low on gas and stopped at an all-night gas station, the sort with the cashier behind a bulletproof window, the sort common here in LA.

He had come to the gig alone so there he was putting gas in his truck in his kilts at midnight in a bad neighborhood.

Suddenly a big pickup truck full of young drunk yahoos pulled up near him. They began taunting him about his kilts. He just smiled at them and kept pumping gas.

Next one of the yahoos pulls a length of pipe from the back of their pickup and starts walking towards our drummer, saying "I'm going to put you in the hospital".

"I don't think so" said our drummer, smiling, and kept pumping.

What the yahoos didn't know, but soon found out, was that our drummer was a Police Officer.

I've often thought about that incident. I'm thankful that such a thing has never happened to me. I'm not a police officer and if that had been me pumping gas the outcome would have been very different.

[McMathTX]

Every now and then the wrong person catches us at the wrong time. If they didn't there would be a lot more Saints.

Sorry, but the NFL only allows New Orleans to carry a 53 man squad, so there can't be anymore Saints (And what they have is definitely enough this year!). Oh, you're talking about the other kind of saints. Never mind!

[Woodsheal]

My (current) favorite response to the "nice skirt" taunt is, "Nice jeans! My wife has a pair just like them!" Obviously directed towards a male. I can't recall being taunted by any females...!