HELP- a call to arms!

[Panache]

But is he not right?

Pity the poor schlep at the office as probably left school at the 6th form and is confronted on a daily basis by his .......

Nanook,

Robertson's complaint was of rudeness and insult given to one of his friends and guests at Ferintosh. He seeks an apology for this. I see it little profits us to show equal rudeness by being insulting the employee.

Panache

[Nanook]

Robertson's complaint was of rudeness and insult given to one of his friends and guests at Ferintosh. He seeks an apology for this. I see it little profits us to show equal rudeness by being insulting the employee.

I'm not insulting him but suggesting that the issue is not pressed to hard. He is probably quite frustrated seeing day in and day out tourists with smiles on their faces and money in their pockets. One might argue that he's got the wrong job but frankly for school leavers there are not many jobs and I suspect his chances at McDonald's to ask the question "Sir, do you want ketchup or mayo with your chips?" ran out some years ago. It clearly irks him that a foreigner owns a guest house. That the owner is flamboyant and confident enough to dash about in (expensive) highland garb is just more kerosene into the flames.
Kilts or for that matter any traditional British clothing is considered somewhat extravagant or at least eccentric or quirky in much of Scotland and Ireland. Society, however, is diverse and tolerant of eccentrics (much more than large parts of the United States).
Most young people wear trainers and poor Chinese made popular fashion as seen on MTV. Dressing up for girls means often a large heaping of cheap decorative cosmetics and flabby belly free "club gear" while the boys don football or gansta gear and enough alcohol in their blood to disinfect an average sized hospital ward--- not that the girls drink much less.