I have been conscious of the fact that when wearing my kilt more people will stop and talk to me, usually what Clan, Tartan or other such. The other factor is the 'excuse me' factor. There is about a 300% increase of the 'excuse me' factor when someone steps infornt of me at the book store or when I searching the store shelves for something. I really believe it's the "blinder effect". People tend to go around with blinders on and not payattention to what's going on around them. Then when something 'out of the ordinary' is around them the blinders go off and the actually become civil!

RLJ-