first time out kilted / almost get evicted for it

[Brewboy]

My parents don't like the kilt either. My father assumes that when I wear it, everyone is laughing at me, and by extension, him. They've asked me not to wear it when they visit me.

I am sometimes amazed how offended people get by a piece of clothing.

[sathor]

I am sometimes amazed how offended people get by a piece of clothing.

If I had gone out regimental and was walking around proving such, then I could see her point, well part of it anyways. My grandma in SC finds it funny too, but she likes her Irish heritage and used to play hammered dulcimer in a 'band' that played celtic/irish/scottish music.

I think what might underlie it is that I become many ways more like my dad that died 5 years ago every day. She made that a messy divorce, she made a point to put him down to me every chance she could, they divorced when I was about 10 and even after I graduated HS she made sure she said something about him making it to my sisters college graduation and not making it to my HS one, which was a week or so apart while he barely made a living in SC, her graduation was in IL, and I lived in OH. The first thing she said when he died was 'You need to be nicer to me now because I'm all you have left"

That or she is just really crazy.

[sharpdressedscot]

My parents don't like the kilt either. My father assumes that when I wear it, everyone is laughing at me, and by extension, him. They've asked me not to wear it when they visit me.

I am sometimes amazed how offended people get by a piece of clothing.

Have the same problem here..

[Tetley]

My parents don't like the kilt either. My father assumes that when I wear it, everyone is laughing at me, and by extension, him. They've asked me not to wear it when they visit me.

I am sometimes amazed how offended people get by a piece of clothing.

My parents both know from prior experience on my choice of partner, that saying don't wear a kilt when visiting or something similar would mean that I wouldn't visit. Fortunately, they like the kilt.