The "real cold question" season

[James MacMillan]

I think they ask that question, because they are cold, and can't believe that we aren't....

Go figure.

[ccga3359]

I think they ask that question, because they are cold, and can't believe that we aren't....

Go figure.

Exactly. Last winter when out on our few SOKS nights (and only one kilt) I'd be outside the bar grabbing a smoke in kilt and sweater (-20C) and the trousered other smokers ask me the same question and I'm the one not shivering.

[James MacMillan]

Exactly. Last winter when out on our few SOKS nights (and only one kilt) I'd be outside the bar grabbing a smoke in kilt and sweater (-20C) and the trousered other smokers ask me the same question and I'm the one not shivering.

Back in my jeans and t-shirt days - - - no one ever asked if I was cold!

Maybe they feel more compassion for us?

Well, it's a thought............... I'll go back to sleep now.

[ccga3359]

Back in my jeans and t-shirt days - - - no one ever asked if I was cold!

Maybe they feel more compassion for us?

Well, it's a thought............... I'll go back to sleep now.

They wouldn't ask then because they were dressed the same, so they already had the answer. With a kiltie they see naked knees and nothing preventing a cold Nor' easter blowing up add to that, their perception of the 'answer' to THE 'question' in their mind's eye. I would ask the same question two years ago (B.K.) had I seen one.

[Daaaaang]

I usually explain that kilts are to pants as mittens are to gloves. That way, the other person leaves a little bit smarter.

It does get old for me though. I swear people ask this question more often than "the" question.

Matt

P.S. for those of you who play, I just lost the game.

[James MacMillan]

I usually explain that kilts are to pants as mittens are to gloves. That way, the other person leaves a little bit smarter.

It does get old for me though. I swear people ask this question more often than "the" question.

Matt

P.S. for those of you who play, I just lost the game.

I like that! I am going to steal it and use it........Thanks....

[ccga3359]

I like that! I am going to steal it and use it........Thanks....

Yeah but my response would be "You stick your thumb where?" Are you sure you want to use that I might have brothers out there from a wayward father.

[auld argonian]

I'm beginning to think that this "aren't you cold?" and all of these other questions that we get hit with are just some kind of nervous reaction that the kilt elicits from those who just aren't prepared to encounter a Kilted One. Sort of like that "the mind seeks order" thing, the mind caught off balance feels that it just has to make the mouth and vocal chords say something...no matter how insipid...to try to find a way to fit the unexpected kilt into whatever form of reality they were, up until then, pleasantly dwelling in.

Oh, well.

Best

AA