giggling little girls

[keepoffgrass]

Me and my girl went out to see a movie this afternoon, and when the movie let out, she decided she needed to stop at Wal-mart for a few things. I hate that place... anyways, its a Sunday afternoon in December, so of course Wal-mart is jam packed full of xmas shoppers and what not. We head to the back of the store to pick up some yarn for some various projects she and her mom are working on.

So, were standing there, and some little girl runs around the corner and almost into me. This starts a "giggling fit" with her friend. I'd say these girls were about 10 or so. After a minute or two of non stop giggling in the isle behind us, I hear the little girl say "I saw a guy in a skirt over there" then I hear a mans voice, I assume the girls father, " really? was he cute?" in a bit of a mocking voice.

Thats when I said quite loudly over the giggling and chatter, " Its a KILT actually" The absolute silence was all the response I got. lol Judging by the quick hush and no other return comment, and that they high tailed it out of there when I corrected them, I think both the man and the girls may have learned a bit of a lesson.

In a place a culturely diverse as here, people tend to see the kilt and respect it as an item of strong cultural identity. For the most part I rarely get a second glance unless its followed by a very nice and respectful comment, by either men and women. You see Polynesian men wearing lava- lavas here all the time in public. So the idea to seeing a man in something unbifurcated isn't out of the norm at all here. I blame bad parenting for the rudeness here. Though I do admit, that its unlikely those girls had ever seen a kilt before, even on tv, and most likely didnt know what it was. At any rate, respect is a lesson the parents should insist on teaching their children, and the correction was important.