Who knew?

[Graham]

You are a true braveheart, 80's. As I've said before, being kilted in the workplace (for those who can) is truly a big challenge.

well done! Now you're happy and free!

[philibeg]

That's a great story! Thanks for posting...

[Magnus Sporrano]

His response... "I like it! In fact I've got a couple myself."

I was waiting for you to respond "So when are you going to wear them to the office?"

But even without that, it's a great story. I work for a big org, too, and sometimes get some flak from underlings but management has been supportive of me.

We did have a videoconference a couple of weeks ago, on a global level, and there was some director of muckity-muck in our London office that started talking and as soon as we picked up on the thick Scottish accent, everyone in the room turns and looks at me grinning from ear to ear and those adjacent to me start elbowing me. When the speaker asked if there were any questions, everyone starts looking at me again. When I get room later, people start telling me they were waiting for me to ask him if he was wearing his kilt (though it was a video conference, we could only see from the sternum-up). I think I said something like "Ahh we're in the mood for stereotyping today, aren't we?" and sort of left it at that.

There are people who talk a lot now about buying a kilt because of me but they still won't get off their duffs and actually do it. One fellow bought one but very rarely wears it and never at work or around co-workers outside of work.

[bubba]

I think there are already of couple of kilted guys at WalMart. One is on the UK website under "Kilted At Work".

In my neck of the woods nobody else wears kilts. I've heard of a couple guys that have worn them in public on very rare occasion but I've never seen them.

[Alan H]

Excellent story.
When the director of the University Libraries (who's Irish) spotted my Black Watch kilt I got a big smile and a couple of great comments from him. THAT squashed the possibility of anything filtering down from on-high.