kilt lifters

[bubba]

The very worst demographic by far, though, is ~14 year old girls

Being a 14 year old male, I can say that I've gotten only positive comments from females around that age group. Plenty of them at my school are trying to convince me to wear it one day, even. Funny that you've had encounters like that, it might just be our age discrepancy.

As a 14 year old you generally aren't hanging around drunken people. It makes a difference.

[Dreadbelly]

Any man lifting my kilt gets floored.

It's happened once. Just once. At night, downtown. Somebody learned manners the hard way. And while they were down on the ground puking their guts out, and gasping for breath, and turning purple, they got lectured about simple civility, good manners, and things you do not do. And when he tried to either sit up or get up during my lecture, I rapped him sharply on the top of his head with the heavy knob at the top of my cane. Not enough to split his skull, but hard enough to make him be a good boy and lay back down.

At the end of the lesson he had much better manners, knew how to use the word "sir" "please" and "thank you."

I do believe he is better for it. Even better, he got dressed down in front of his friends, who stood by and did nothing but stare at their feet.

Since then, I have been mostly left alone. I have developed a reputation where I live as "that kilted guy, don't mess with him." I open doors for ladies, say polite hellos, smile, and chat up the locals. When I go into a place, I some times get free coffee or whatever, because folk are drawn to a place where some guy in a kilt hangs out. I am (hopefully) a good example of what a kilted gentleman should be.

But kilt lifters get floored.

[Rubber Soul]

The very worst demographic by far, though, is ~14 year old girls

Being a 14 year old male, I can say that I've gotten only positive comments from females around that age group. Plenty of them at my school are trying to convince me to wear it one day, even. Funny that you've had encounters like that, it might just be our age discrepancy.

As a 14 year old you generally aren't hanging around drunken people. It makes a difference.

Actually, you'd be surprised . I don't drink, but probably the MAJORITY of people that I know (not talking friends, just anyone I know) drink.

But when Magnus were reffering to the 14 year old girls, I believe they were sober. At least that's the assumption I made from the story.

[Magnus Sporrano]

Q would know what to do. Something along the lines of mousetraps down near the hemline, on the inside of the kilt....

There's a joke in there somewhere about springing the trap on yourself but I'm not gonna say anything!

It's far too cold out now for that to be a concern.

[Magnus Sporrano]

But when Magnus were reffering to the 14 year old girls, I believe they were sober. At least that's the assumption I made from the story.

As far as I could tell, sober. Rude, but sober.

The kilt lifters though are generally at the pubs. I've been accomidating to polite pretty young lasses who ask for peeks out back. Call me a prude, but only my wife and my physician are permitted to check out what's going on up front.

I have a definite problem with any guys touching the kilt without consent (and they won't get my consent) and with lasses touching the kilt without my consent (though I have been tolerant of the inevitable sneak peeks around back as long as it's a quick peek and not a full on lift).

I'm mostly a lover, not a fighter, but when it comes to the guys touching the kilt I find myself identifying the most with the response that Dreadlock-Ness Monster advocates.

[Dreadbelly]

All I know is, it must have been embarassing for him. getting totally beat down by some guy with a gimpy leg and wearing a skirt. In front of his friends.

Learning a lesson like that in life is priceless.

[elkdoc]

This thread has done more for my pre-kilt learning curve than any other yet.

Very interesting...

[JazzKiltz]

Q would know what to do. Something along the lines of mousetraps down near the hemline, on the inside of the kilt....

There's a joke in there somewhere about springing the trap on yourself but I'm not gonna say anything!

It's far too cold out now for that to be a concern.

Hmm...really?

[JazzKiltz]

Actually, I'm among those whose kilt has never been lifted. Permission or no. Over the Christmas holidays, however, my sister-in-law - ever so slowly - slid her hand from my knee to my hip "just to check". It is, apparently, faily common in my wife's family to "kilt check" this way but I nearly had to excuse myself from the room to avoid more obvious embarrasment.

All that and it was about -4F outside! Yikes!

[Doc Hudson]

All I know is, it must have been embarassing for him. getting totally beat down by some guy with a gimpy leg and wearing a skirt. In front of his friends.

Learning a lesson like that in life is priceless.

From one tripod to another, you might want to check out www.canemasters.com next time you have a hankering for a new cane.

He made mine about four years ago, heart hickory in what Mark calls a Teardrop Shape. He say that if you whack some one across the shins with the striking edge, it will bring tears. It will probably bring blood as well, but definitely tears.