A Rookie Mistake Ordering Another Kilt

**gun eagal** · 4th August 20, 02:28 PM

One of the worst things I've ever done is leave my pipes sitting in their box in a parking lot after playing for a wedding. The wedding was the day after Princess Di died, so I guess I was a little spacey. I was already home from the wedding when I realized my circa 1910 Lawries were not in the car. So I raced back, feeling a huge relief when I found them just where I had left them, sitting on the asphalt.

**Brian Rose** · 4th August 20, 04:16 PM

There are so many snarky comments that could apply. We'll go with someone looked in the box and left them. After all, where does one fence a set of Great Highland Pipes? Despite the price of a set. The odds of another piper happening by are somewhere between slim and none. That piper would also be well aware of the value of the box. Of course, the piper might cruise by in an hour or so to see if the set had been recovered. After all, one wouldn't want anything to happen to them.

**OC Richard** · 8th August 20, 05:27 PM

Originally Posted by Brian Rose

There are so many snarky comments that could apply.

Yes, there's the time I left my pipes on the back seat of my car when my mates and I went into the pub, when I came out my car's back window was smashed... and there were two sets of pipes on my back seat.

I drove off and left my accordion on the street corner where we were busking...I rushed back and there were two accordions there.

Do you know what Perfect Pitch is to a banjo player? When you throw a banjo into a skip and it lands on an accordion!

**OC Richard** · 4th August 20, 08:37 PM

Originally Posted by gun eagal

I realized my circa 1910 Lawries were not in the car. So I raced back, feeling a huge relief when I found them just where I had left them...

Back in the 1980s two very good local pipers left their wonderful early silver & ivory Hendersons on the roof of one of their cars in the car park, they soon realised their mistake and ran back only to find both pipes missing.

Nothing was seen of them, though both guys kept their eyes open, checking out the pipes on the shoulders of other pipers at Highland Games, watching Ebay and Craig's List etc.

Then 30 years later the pipes appeared on Ebay, being sold by a Pawn Shop hundreds of miles away.

A couple days later the pipers appeared at the Pawn Shop with a Police Detective and were able to establish that these were indeed their pipes. (They had numerous old photos of them playing the sets, and they knew very specific details about each set that no-one would be able to guess.)

**MichiganKyle** · 5th August 20, 04:23 AM

Sorry to hear Celtic Nations didn't work out, both for you and for entirely selfish reasons - was hoping to see some pictures, as I've been considering buying one myself.

Glad to head you got a workaround, though, and it sounds like a very good workaround at that. Sometimes salvaging a bad situation is the best you can do.