Quote Originally Posted by Drac View Post
Last weekend I was walking back to base from the ice cream shop when an elderly lady approaches me asking which tartan I was wearing. After I told her (Lamont) she proceeded to get on my case about how low my hose were and how my flashes needed to to be longer. She than got on my case because I didn't say Lamont with the right accent. I pronounced it right just without the Scottish accent.

This week I was at a play when the owner of the kilt store here on Coronado (talk about small world) who also came up to me at the theater. He came up rattling off in Gaelic (man I have problems with English). We discussed kilts when I had mentioned my other kilts, which include PV, I made a big mistake. He went off on the wrongness of PV.

Is it just me or am I just lucky?
It must be really embarrassing for people to feel the need to correct total strangers on their apparel. And to correct someone on a foreign accent is just pretentious. However, with regards to the PV incident, just be glad you're not like me and have to deal with the die hard Scottish-American "purist" response to your veganism! I've had local shop owners roll their eyes so hard at me I wondered if (hoped) they would get stuck in the back of their skulls.

So no, you're not alone! If you kept your cool in both situations, kudos to you! I sometimes get a little righteously indignant myself when someone insults my personal ethics (much less my kilt! ).