New Use for Old Kilt Hose

[Jock Scot]

Well done Jamie, just the ticket old chap. Now about the flat cap--------- a tweed flat cap! NOT ONE OF THOSE TARTAN MONSTROCOTIES!Stone the crows, give a chap a bit of advice, thinking all will be well and then------AND THEN, what do you come up with? THAT DAMN HAT!!!! Give me a large brandy some one. No, two might be better! What am I going to do with a fellow who wears a tartan bonnet under ANY circumstances! Hanging is too good for them. Shooting maybe? Keel hauling perhaps?Oh dear, oh dear----------oh dear-------oh--------------oh------------o----------------!!!!

[Panache]

Well done Jamie, just the ticket old chap. Now about the flat cap--------- a tweed flat cap! NOT ONE OF THOSE TARTAN MONSTROCOTIES!Stone the crows, give a chap a bit of advice, thinking all will be well and then------AND THEN, what do you come up with? THAT DAMN HAT!!!! Give me a large brandy some one. No, two might be better! What am I going to do with a fellow who wears a tartan bonnet under ANY circumstances! Hanging is too good for them. Shooting maybe? Keel hauling perhaps?Oh dear, oh dear----------oh dear-------oh--------------oh------------o----------------!!!!

Goodness gracious poor Jock! What has the world come to with these young rapscallions running amok with their tartan flat caps and listening to Frank Sinatra! The disgrace! The shame! The horror! Perhaps that young hellion needs to take a long hard look in the mirror and decide where his priorities are!

Wait a minute! I think he might actually be seeing the error of his ways!

Yes indeed look at him

He is realizing that a tweed hat would be better

He puts his tartan flat cap back on its hook

and he reaches for ...

...That favorite tweed bucket hat of his that he knows Jock Scot loves so well!



Cheers

Jamie :ootd:

[Jock Scot]

Goodness gracious poor Jock! What has the world come to with these young rapscallions running amok with their tartan flat caps and listening to Frank Sinatra! The disgrace! The shame! The horror! Perhaps that young hellion needs to take a long hard look in the mirror and decide where his priorities are!

Wait a minute! I think he might actually be seeing the error of his ways!

Yes indeed look at him

He is realizing that a tweed hat would be better

He puts his tartan flat cap back on its hook

and he reaches for ...

...That favorite tweed bucket hat of his that he knows Jock Scot loves so well!



Cheers

Jamie :ootd:

Oh dear Jamie what are you doing to me? Actually the infamous "bucket hat" will be just fine with the plus 4's, but if you really want to do the job well , then dig out that deer stalker.

[Highlander31]

Great photo, Jamie. Back in the late 60's. we could rent a twin bicycle from the bike shop on The Alameda across from Hester Elementary School for $0.75 per hour. Nothing like taking your lady for a leisurely ride around town (of course San Jose is different now.)

[Smayniac]

Great photo, Jamie. Back in the late 60's. we could rent a twin bicycle from the bike shop on The Alameda across from Hester Elementary School for $0.75 per hour. Nothing like taking your lady for a leisurely ride around town (of course San Jose is different now.)

Sadly, there is not a bicycle shop on the Alameda anymore, and you're right, San Jose is different. I noticed a sign on Race Street today for Slough's, which may have been the shop on the Alameda in the '70's; I think they are all gone except for that poor sign.

Bob

[The F-H.C.A.G.]

Oh dear Jamie what are you doing to me? Actually the infamous "bucket hat" will be just fine with the plus 4's, but if you really want to do the job well , then dig out that deer stalker.

I just want to note, for posterity, that Jock Scot has actually put in writing, that the bucket hat will be just fine with him!

Be well,

Star

P.S. The plus fours would have taken less time to alter, if I hadn't allowed my darling husband to try it himself first!

[Jock Scot]

I just want to note, for posterity, that Jock Scot has actually put in writing, that the bucket hat will be just fine with him!

Be well,

Star

P.S. The plus fours would have taken less time to alter, if I hadn't allowed my darling husband to try it himself first!

My dear lady, I fancy that there is a spot of selective quotation going on, that is not quite what I said. Is it?

[Highlander31]

Sadly, there is not a bicycle shop on the Alameda anymore, and you're right, San Jose is different. I noticed a sign on Race Street today for Slough's, which may have been the shop on the Alameda in the '70's; I think they are all gone except for that poor sign.

Bob

My family owned several acres on the corner of Race Street and West San Fernando Street. The property was sold off and the neighborhood is the result. I grew up on the that corner across from Saint Leo's Church. Went in the Army in 1971. When I became a private contractor, I was lucky to be able to base out of the San Jose area. Over the years I owned houses in the Dry Creek area, South San Jose, and Los Gatos until the '89 earthquake leveled it. That caused to us move to the Blossom Valley area, where we stayed for 17 years. Then it became obvious to this son of the Golden West that it was time to leave the area my family had helped build since 1839. But, that's how it is, time moves forward and things change.

[Smayniac]

Well done Jamie, just the ticket old chap. Now about the flat cap--------- a tweed flat cap! NOT ONE OF THOSE TARTAN MONSTROCOTIES!Stone the crows, give a chap a bit of advice, thinking all will be well and then------AND THEN, what do you come up with? THAT DAMN HAT!!!! Give me a large brandy some one. No, two might be better! What am I going to do with a fellow who wears a tartan bonnet under ANY circumstances! Hanging is too good for them. Shooting maybe? Keel hauling perhaps?Oh dear, oh dear----------oh dear-------oh--------------oh------------o----------------!!!!

Breathe Jock, Breathe, it's only a hat. Sometimes a hat is just a hat...

[Jock Scot]

Breathe Jock, Breathe, it's only a hat. Sometimes a hat is just a hat...

Oh yes I know that! THAT awful hat just gives me the chance of doing the "grumpy old man" bit , that is all.