My wife and daughter and I were walking over to the Goodman Theatre tonight (to see Brian Dennehy in a double bill of Hughie and Krapp's Last Tape...brilliant, by the way) and I mentioned that I had been walking that same way last year some time and spotted a fella in a kilt walking across the street and didn't want to shout out at him so I just posted to the forum asking who might have been in Chicago that day and walking down Madison Street. Turns out that it was Detroit Pete...as he posted to the thread that he was there that day.

Now my wife is looking at me in that funny way...

"You guys actually do that on your forum?"

"Yeah...it's happened a couple of times...you spot another kiltie and can't talk to him so you post it as a 'kilt sighting' figuring that it almost certainly must be another Xmarkser and they'll answer the post."

"That's just weird."

"Why?"

"It just is."

I think that it's pretty normal...a courteous inquiry...a way of touching base with yer fellow kilties. Why would anybody think that this is odd behaviour?

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