Kilt Do's and Don'ts

[Riverkilt]

Tell you what Zardoz,

I sure thought about it. But was in sales for 27 years and have been a therapist for 15 and the way I read him was that he was totally uninterested in outside input...he had a type A way of being in the world and a don't mess with me presence. Figured in a crowd this large someone would say something. He seemed to be with a group, but separated from it somehow. He was always yacking into that thing in his ear...looked like an escaped mental patient talking to himself or into some gizmo rigged out of aluminum foil...

What's so weird is that he probably arrived at the games that way. If he'd bought the kilt it woulda probably been a **** one and the seller would have taken the basting out to show off the kilt to best advantage.

I don't mind telling another guy his zipper is open. It just didn't seem wise to tell this man anything...just me...maybe someone did later and he tipped them a $20...who knows.

But my gut read was all wrong so I didn't intrude into his basted world.

Ron

[Larry124]

Tell you what Zardoz,
I sure thought about it. But was in sales for 27 years and have been a therapist for 15 and the way I read him was that he was totally uninterested in outside input...he had a type A way of being in the world and a don't mess with me presence. ... He seemed to be with a group, but separated from it somehow. He was always yacking into that thing in his ear...
...It just didn't seem wise to tell this man anything...just me...maybe someone did later and he tipped them a $20...who knows.
But my gut read was all wrong so I didn't intrude into his basted world.
Ron

Ron,
I spent three decades in Human Services and even from a picture alone that is the way that I’d also “read” that gentleman.
Of course he might need to be in constant contact with a medical situation in his family or in a professional role.
But he’s more likely an over-controlling micromanager unable to delegate.
With a self-image inseparable from the appearance of industriousness and importance
Wearing the kilt with little enjoyment and/or false pride because it’s the “expected” dress or to establish “membership” in or even “ownership” of the event.

But that’s a lot of speculative assumptions and off topic other than to say DON’T wear the kilt (or attend a leisure event) as a half-interested afterthought.

[Amoskeag]

Ron,
I spent three decades in Human Services and even from a picture alone that is the way that I’d also “read” that gentleman.
Of course he might need to be in constant contact with a medical situation in his family or in a professional role.
But he’s more likely an over-controlling micromanager unable to delegate.
With a self-image inseparable from the appearance of industriousness and importance
Wearing the kilt with little enjoyment and/or false pride because it’s the “expected” dress or to establish “membership” in or even “ownership” of the event.

But that’s a lot of speculative assumptions and off topic other than to say DON’T wear the kilt (or attend a leisure event) as a half-interested afterthought.

I don't know. It seems a lot to surmise from a single picture. He might just be a dweeb; and that's not a bad thing.
Bob

[Rex_Tremende]

But he’s more likely...
With a self-image...
Wearing the kilt...
But that’s a lot of speculative assumptions and off topic...

He might just be....

And he might just be a guest at XMTS, where he will no doubt learn how to wear a kilt a little more deliberately, but if he's reading this, he will certainly learn a lot about us.

I have been trying lately to make it my policy not to post to this thread, but I'm having trouble letting this one pass. OK, so the "DON'TS" in this Hall of Shame can be instructive, but how about if we leave it at that, and try to hold back on the pile-ons, hm?

Regards,
Rex, your friendly spoilsport.

[Mr. MacDougall]

Do try on things the vendors are displaying at the Highland Games. Don't let your mother photograph you with an odd expression on your face.

[Amoskeag]

Do try on things the vendors are displaying at the Highland Games. Don't let your mother photograph you with an odd expression on your face.

Wow that's pretty sharp, did you buy it? I'd like one but I'm afraid I'd look like stuffed sausage in it. (a serious "DON'T")
Bob

[herminator]

Is that a real MacMedic?

Cool!

[sharpdressedscot]

It looks like the table cloth in my dining room, I'm gonna check if there's a patch missing. Thief!!

[McClef]

Is that a real MacMedic?

Cool!

Looks like one to me!

I take it it was the jacket you were trying on - just as well you are not supposed to fasten all those buttons!

[Mr. MacDougall]

Wow that's pretty sharp, did you buy it?

I was just trying it on. It was 1) quite spendy, and 2) the wrong size. I've had on my list the "swordsman" doublet from them for quite a while, however.