A story of Kilted Attention or: Why I can't go commando!

[Four]

Leaving the concert early or: Why my wife makes me wear underwear.

So I went to a flogging Molly concert last night at the house of blues. I went kilted, with a T-shirt, Kilt belt, a tweet cap, and flip flops. (Hey it's Florida)

Picture, included of course:

Well of course I started getting attention immediately, much to my wife's dismay. Plenty of guys gave me high fives and shook my hand, and others just waved or gave me a thumbs up when i walked by, but here are the more memorable parts....

Girl #1: coming outa of the bathroom, a girl notices we're wearing the same tartan, comments on it, gives me a high-five

Girl #2: I'm watching the show with my wife and girl walks up and asked to take my picture, i oblige. At this point my wife is starting to get slightly annoyed that women are interrupting us.

Girl #3: I feel a tug on the back of my kilt, i look back thinking I got snagged on someone walking by, only to see a blond haired girl that looked ~19-20 grinning at me with her hand in the air. Confused, i thought maybe she was someone i knew... then i realize she wants a high-five. So i give her a high five but she closes her hand around my hand and holds my hand.... She then releases and runs away... My wife is getting a bit irate at this point "Who the F*** was that?!" she says

Girl #4: I think it was the same girl as girl 3.. but im watching the show from the same spot, and someone grabs my butt, (maybe to check for undies?) I turn around and its the same girl smiling.. I am in shock, and my wife is just noticing again, THIS COULD GET BAD. I was about to tell her that i have a wife and it's inapropriate, when she looks like she wants to tell me something. (Its very loud so you either have to yell, or get close to someones ear to talk to them) as i bend down to put my ear close to her, she jumps up and kisses me! Then she runs away.

At this point my wife is PISSED! She's asking me where the girl went, i have no idea and try to get her to just enjoy the show, she leaves to go look for the girl.. I'm a bit nervous now about my wife getting arrested (she had crazy eyes...) When she's gone the girl comes back!!!! This time she doesn't say anything, she just looks at me and brushes past me.. PHEW.

When the wife came back i decided we should go ahead and leave before any more drama.....

So let this be a warning to you on being kilted!

[Nighthawk]

I went to see Iced Earth kilted last weekend. I got similar attention. My wife, luckily for me, takes the "That's right, ladies. He's going home with me" attitude. I think she actually likes the attention that I get- seems to give her an ego boost that I treat the other women as if they're... well... just other women.

[auld argonian]

First, tell your wife in a nice way that she just has to lighten up...her reaction is understandable but, when you think of it, it serves no constructive purpose for her to get pissed at either you or the immature gropers.

You can go back into a number of threads dealing with this. It just seems to be part of the job. There's always some dopes who feel that if somebody show up in a kilt, it's their obligation to lift it...I suppose that they think it's funny...it isn't but they think that life is some kind of movie where they're supposed to run around doing funny things for that imaginary audience that they carry around in their head. They think that they can do whatever and it'll be excused because it's cute or funny. I call it "Ferris Buehler Syndrome".

Cute girls think that they can get away with anything, anyway....take comfort in the fact that they will, inevitably, find out that they can't and that the day that they figure that out is the day that they have to face the cruel reality that they can't coast through life being cute or pretty and they have to be something more substantial than a cute girl.

My considered advice to you is to just hurry up and get old....who the hell wants to kilt check a fifty or sixty year old guy? Okay...maybe a fifty or sixty year old woman who hasn't seen any action since Nixon was president but, generally speaking, who cares about a guys naughty bits after they've had that birthday party where everybody cleverly brings black balloons and "over the hill" mugs?

Another idea is to just stand next to a younger, better looking guy in a kilt and they'll be lifting his kilt instead of yours.

Just wear shorts...really...there's no rules here. If some dumb *** gets a flash and gives you the $#!+ about "not being a true Scotsman", just tell them that you anticipated running into some @$$#o!< who's going pull this juvenile prank and wanted to be considerate of the other people around who don't share their punk sense of humor.

Best

AA

[Four]

First, tell your wife in a nice way that she just has to lighten up...her reaction is understandable but, when you think of it, it serves no constructive purpose for her to get pissed at either you or the immature gropers.

You can go back into a number of threads dealing with this. It just seems to be part of the job. There's always some dopes who feel that if somebody show up in a kilt, it's their obligation to lift it...I suppose that they think it's funny...it isn't but they think that life is some kind of movie where they're supposed to run around doing funny things for that imaginary audience that they carry around in their head. They think that they can do whatever and it'll be excused because it's cute or funny. I call it "Ferris Buehler Syndrome".

Cute girls think that they can get away with anything, anyway....take comfort in the fact that they will, inevitably, find out that they can't and that the day that they figure that out is the day that they have to face the cruel reality that they can't coast through life being cute or pretty and they have to be something more substantial than a cute girl.

My considered advice to you is to just hurry up and get old....who the hell wants to kilt check a fifty or sixty year old guy? Okay...maybe a fifty or sixty year old woman who hasn't seen any action since Nixon was president but, generally speaking, who cares about a guys naughty bits after they've had that birthday party where everybody cleverly brings black balloons and "over the hill" mugs?

Another idea is to just stand next to a younger, better looking guy in a kilt and they'll be lifting his kilt instead of yours.

Just wear shorts...really...there's no rules here. If some dumb *** gets a flash and gives you the $#!+ about "not being a true Scotsman", just tell them that you anticipated running into some @$$#o!< who's going pull this juvenile prank and wanted to be considerate of the other people around who don't share their punk sense of humor.

Best

AA

I cant get to upset with her, i know if someone was getting handsy with my wife, we'd have an issue.

Thanks for the advice.

Its not easy being young, handsome and kilted

[McFarkus]

Here's the picture. I'm kind of traditional myself, but for Florida, the flip-flops are appropriate.

[Ryan Ross]

I'm not a lothario, and never have been... don't wear a kilt to get attention in the least.

That said, like many others here, I can't elaborate on half of the things I've had to put up with through the years, mostly from strange, drunk girls; consider yourself fortunate that you got off as easy as you did, this time. Next time, you run the risk of someone getting MUCH more "friendly".

You have been warned.

[Four]

I'm not a lothario, and never have been... don't wear a kilt to get attention in the least.

That said, like many others here, I can't elaborate on half of the things I've had to put up with through the years, mostly from strange, drunk girls; consider yourself fortunate that you got off as easy as you did, this time. Next time, you run the risk of someone getting MUCH more "friendly".

You have been warned.

Thanks for the vocab word, i never heard of lothario.

To be honest, I've gotten some attention and know it's expected, people screaming at me from across the room etc. This is just the first time it ever got physical, which was a bit startling.

[ForresterModern]

....Its not easy being young, handsome and kilted

I wish that was my problem. One out of three ain't bad I guess.

I got kilt checked at a large public gathering when I walked past a group of smart-alec inebriated twenty-somethings who were sitting on a low rock wall, and one woman reached out and lifted as I passed to get a good look. After slapping down her hand (artfully not spilling my own drink) I turn and scowled and told her that was sexual harrassment/assault, and asked her and her friends how it would be taken if I lifted the skirt of one of their women for a look. Just by coincidence a police officer on crowd control a few feet away witnessed the whole thing, and came to my "rescue" and ended up giving the whole group, and the kilt-checker in particular, a stern lecture about how if I wanted to press charges he would arrest her for sexual assault, which if convicted (highly likely since the cop witnessed the whole thing) would have put her on a sexual offenders public registry for the rest of her life. He held me there until he was finished talking to her/them, then frankly asked me whether I wanted to, no actually urged me to, file formal charges. After taking a moment I said no, and the poor girl apologized in front of her whole friend group before the cop and I walked away together. Once away he told me he had hoped I would have said yes just to teach them a lesson, as he was pretty sure the charge would have been dealt down by any prosecuting attorney to something non-sexual in nature as it was likely a first offense. Then he actually complimented me on the way I had handled the incident (I initially was ready to throw my drink in her face but held off), followed by another compliment on the kilted outfit and said he wished he had the guts to wear one himself. I wrote the Xmarks website on the back of my business card and gave it to him as a way to start looking into kilt wearing. Don't know if he ever looked or joined or got kilted, but if some Louisville officer out there recognizes this story speak up.

Kilt checks are generally considered cute and benign and playful by those who perform them, and often flattering to those who recieve them, but if they are an unwanted advance and violation of one's personal privacy they should be considered for what they are--sexual assault/harrassment. It is one thing to ask, another entirely to uninvited invade one's person.

I think next time, if I do have a drink in my hand, I will try to remember to dump it in the face of the offender, just for good measure. My response will be "Oooh, you startled me so much I spilled my drink. Wear it in health."

[Ryan Ross]

Thanks for the vocab word, i never heard of lothario.

To be honest, I've gotten some attention and know it's expected, people screaming at me from across the room etc. This is just the first time it ever got physical, which was a bit startling.

Yeah, it can be rather startling, for sure.

Especially with single guys, at first, they might be thinking "Hey- This is awesome!" But if you have to put up with enough of it, to enough of a degree, over a long enough period of time, you realize you're being treated like a piece of meat, and that you could have legal action against a bunch of these women, should you wish to.

Aye, a little self respect is all it takes to see said low-class actions for what they are- proof that men are not the only impulsive hornballs in town.

[pascs]

It can be tough on your wife or gf if they have not encountered this before, I dont know why it happens but it seems a common 'problem'

My wife is used to it since I've been wearing a kilt for a long time but she was still caught out recently by a friends over interest and she gave her the evil eye treatment - seemed to work