Kilted comment at Fresno Hotel

[Cassidy]

Great story! Unfortunately for me a few weeks ago, I was at a restaurant in Anastasia FL (just outside St. Augustine) and a huge dude took great exception to my kilt. He never said anything directly to me, but let it be known that men in dresses needed their @sses kicked. I was in a rather large group and he got pretty immediate feedback. He hunched down and sulked over his dinner the rest of his stay. I wondered if he would be waiting outside for me, but he apparently thought better of it.

Sometimes you need to show a little steam in those situations, and they'll back off.

I once got into a tough little situation walking alone in the evening in my kilt, where three young men close to my age approached me and started giving me crap about it. I was trying to politely get it over with and move on, but one of them said something to the effect of him wanting to beat me up.

I just looked him dead in the eye and asked him, "Do you really want your little buddies here to have to tell everyone that you got the snot stomped out of you by a man in a skirt?" I then walked straight past him, catching him with my shoulder, and said "Evening," not looking at them at all.

They just walked away.

[McFarkus]

I threw on my MacLeod of Harris kilt to go to the laundromat this morning. After throwing the clothes in the machine, I walked up the street to get some coffee and walked past where folks are in the process of setting up for a local street fair.

An African-American guy who was helping his wife set up her booth pointed at me and said, "I want me one of them after all, grandpa was a MacQuistan." His wife rolled her eyes and he said, "What? That's Man Freedom!"

[rollerboy_1979]

Great story! Unfortunately for me a few weeks ago, I was at a restaurant in Anastasia FL (just outside St. Augustine) and a huge dude took great exception to my kilt. He never said anything directly to me, but let it be known that men in dresses needed their @sses kicked. I was in a rather large group and he got pretty immediate feedback. He hunched down and sulked over his dinner the rest of his stay. I wondered if he would be waiting outside for me, but he apparently thought better of it.

Right here, in the same thread, we have two totally divergent stories about how men respond to kilts. Luckily, Hospitaller's gentleman was just that, a gentleman (a big one at that) and the norm. This other sniveling coward is obviously low on self-esteem if he has to aggrandize himself in a restaurant by calling a traditionally manly garment a dress; luckily he's in the minority. With all of society's problems, why choose to take issue with the manner in which someone is dressed? Only a sociopath would do that. Too bad you didn't have the opportunity to do the Hiemlich maneuver on him....then you could have said, "How does it feel to have your life saved by a man in a dress?". LOL!

RB

[Kilt TN]

Some kids at the local Lowe's were making jokes about my kilt so real loud I said better to have my knees showing than my pants hanging down to my knees and my *** hanging out.