"Kilt check" question

[QMcK]

It's how I feel. I suppose I should have bit my tongue though. I'm sorry for the last comment. I don't know how you dress.

[Brian07663NJ]

MacFett... I'm not running around flashing children. I was merely saying that I think adults too often try to shift what they find uncomfortable to explain to children on the children.

QMcK... I understood what you meant. No apology necessary - we're all friends and just talking. (No worries Bigkahuna).

Think I explained (but might be on another thread) that I am not Scot and don't dress to the max. I am more of a laid back kilt wearer more comfortable in a kilt with boots and socks without the kilt pin, sporran, hose, flashes etc. Basically I wear it because I like the kilt and am comfortable enough to be different in the cookie cutter world.

Now back to the topic being kilt check - my comment was meant to instill the sense that I don't find offense in it because it is a common enough question. I am more along the lines that laughing at ourself is the best. So if someone asks me that question I just try to toss the statement back to them - you asked, find out for yourself. I then "move on" and most of the time they do too. However if they do then they aren't going to see something that they haven't seen before. Back around to the kids...you tell them big deal and they move along too. You get alarmed and they do too.

Peace to all. Enjoy life because even at 37 I feel it is moving faster then I can grasp.

[NewGuise]

Now back to the topic being kilt check - my comment was meant to instill the sense that I don't find offense in it because it is a common enough question.

I never have a problem with The Question, although I find it interesting - endlessly fascinating, even - that people do ask. When I'm wearing trousers, no one asks if I'm wearing socks, much less whether I'm wearing underwear, and the people who ask The Question are not always those whom I might expect to be curious or bold enough to ask. The Question says more about the Questioner than any answer could say about the person being asked.

A kilt check is different. And while (as noted in another message) I have been kilt-checked, both by men and by women, and remain unbothered by it on a personal level, I do understand why others see it as an assault, an unwarranted invasion of privacy, and thus try to respond in a way that, without demonstrating any sense of personal affront, nonetheless discourages the activity. And it seems to work.