I lost my cool

**Rob Wright** · 23rd June 05, 06:41 PM

Graham even in the heat of the moment you remain a gentleman. You could of handled it a lot worse but you didn't.

Rob

**Alan H** · 23rd June 05, 11:36 PM

I hope that the day my temper boils over, I speak and act in a manner like to what you just did.

**Dreadbelly** · 24th June 05, 05:26 AM

Why Alan?

Tis far more fun to indulge the berserker beast within.

I am sure yours has something to say about that situation!

**Rivenraven** · 24th June 05, 05:58 AM

Why would you care? Would be my response to a question from a male. But that rarely happens. A coworker once responded that he didn't realize it was casual day. My response? I told him my $575 kilt was not as casual as his $35 Dockers. (If I was really in a bad mood I could have said I had more wrapped around my **** than his first semester's tuition.)

There are places I don't wear the kilt and they are places I just don't go. I went to a private party downtown Charlie-town and wore my kilt. As cars passed on King Street I got calls from the ladies (which I kinda enjoy) and male yelled (William Wallace! or Scotland! and my favorite "Are you Scottish?") People can be so ignorant. "Hey what you got under that towel wrapped around your head?!"

http://www.kiltmen.com/photogallery4.htm

I don't necessarily wear a kilt because I like attention, it can be a pain in the *** (and itchy) but it's my family colors, and I am very proud of my family and what they have represented in the United States. My son is the eighth generation and I hope he is as ever a Patriot like his fathers before him. Everyone one of us in some way supports Freedom in the very spirit of Alba. AND that is why I wear a kilt. I have a very personal connection with the tartan as it comes from the land on which I belong.

**Graham** · 24th June 05, 06:20 AM

Oh you're all too kind, if the lassie wasn't there I might have said worse, but if she hadn't been there I wouldn't have cared!

I'd spent the whole day working in an office building, changing all their signs. The staff there were all pleasant, one office lady even saying "hey, good looking". Even the men there were all interested - but polite about my kiltwearing. One office manager asked if that day was a special occasion, I said "YES", "every day I manage to get out of bed healthy is a special occasion!".

So there was more positive than negative in the day.

**Jimmy Carbomb** · 24th June 05, 07:31 AM

I'm more taken back by the fact that the term "Redneck" is used in Tasmania!!!

**Magnus Sporrano** · 24th June 05, 07:41 AM

Originally Posted by Jimmy Carbomb

I'm more taken back by the fact that the term "Redneck" is used in Tasmania!!!

They are everywhere. EVERYWHERE!

And after having lived in the country in North Carolina, I would say there are more rednecks per capita in Pennsylvania. Crazy, but true.

**highlander_Daz** · 24th June 05, 09:07 AM

I think ive asked thes before -but whats a redneck??

**Kirkwood** · 24th June 05, 09:12 AM

Graham, if that was loosing your cool, I wish I had you as a father growing up!

**Freedomlover** · 24th June 05, 09:59 AM

Originally Posted by Magnus Sporrano

They are everywhere. EVERYWHERE!

And after having lived in the country in North Carolina, I would say there are more rednecks per capita in Pennsylvania. Crazy, but true.

You might be right. In '03 the wife and I visited Gettysburg for a week. I heard more asinine comments during that week than I get in a year here in the 'hillbilly heaven' of Haywood County, North Carolina.

One evening while were were poking around downtown, a local mental midget passes us and mutters, "how'd you like your *** kicked?" I spun around and said, loudly, "Here and now is a really good time for you to try". He did the right thing:walked away (to the amusement of other bystanders). Right across the street from where that happened there is a music store, and in the window they had a Deering banjo, the Black Diamond model. I play a pretty good bluegrass banjo (a Deering, in fact) and wanted to try it. I walked in, all smiles, and asked if I could give it a try. The clerk looked me up and down, with an expression of disdain, and declined to let me try it out. I asked for the manager and was told he "wasn't available". I thought to myself "the hell with it, and him too" and headed for the door. Thing is, I would have bought it on the spot, for cash, if I'd liked it.

That was just two instances of idiocy separated by 10 minutes. There were others. So I'd have to agree that at least that part of PA is populated by genuine rednecks.