Quote Originally Posted by Frank McGrath View Post
I turned to the guy and asked if he had ever been beaten by a 57 year old man in a skirt.
That's one advantage of getting older but still doing a fair bit of manual labour on the farm. :buttkick:

If I get pounded, there's no glory for them because they thumped an old man. If I thump them, there's no glory for them because they got pounded by an old man.

Mind you, I don't hide behind my advancing years. I also don't provoke fights (any more :mrgreen. A tendency toward public sobriety also helps me keep my wits about me.

I had occasion lately to offer some advice to another XMarker who was having some doubts about going kilted. The question came up about how to handle what people say. I told them that I had discovered that if I wore my kilt with the attitude that I "should" feel defensive about it, that I tended to approach every casual interaction from a defensive stance. On the other hand, if I simply wear the kilt because that's what I'm wearing today, then I can let the ignorant comments pass (they'll happen whether I'm wearing a kilt or not!) and be pleasantly surprised by the shout-outs and thumbs up. I can use those positive encounters as teachable moments.

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