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[wesd]

GOOD DAY, Last year at a local Irish fest a small boy (about 4 or 5) lookup to me and said "are you a boy are a girl"? Well I simply said that I was a boy. But you have a skirt on, boys wear pants, I have pants I'm a boy. Well both mom and dad are standing very close by and can hear everything. Now mom looks like any youg mother from the burbs, simple top and jeans. Now dad has a cable knit sweater AND A KILT. I point this out to the lad that his mom has pants on but his dad is wearing a kilt like me. H is little brain goes to work on this problem, his response, he's a boy, boys wear pants so mom must be a boy and both dad and myself wear girls. Someday maybe very soon he would find out that he was wrong but I could not get around the kid logic.

[David Dalglish]

My Grandson, on the rare ocassion I go over to see him with shorts or trousers on, says to me, Grandad, why are you not wearing your kilt. Its the norm for him to see me kilted, & he has never once called it a skirt--Funny is'nt it