Situation at Walmart -- or Clean-Up in Aisle 3

[Riverkilt]

Weird. I usually have the teen girls bravely coming up to me and complimenting me on the kilt or asking to have their picture taken with a kilted olde geezer.

[Papa Slob]

I had the same thing happen in Krogers while I was at the checkout. I was also wearing my jean kilt, and a guy was trying to take my picture with his cell phone. OK, not the same as two young girls, but my wife was sure upset.

[kiltedRTR]

My candid episode happened in my History class with a girl only 2 years younger than me. She took the picture unbeknownst to me and then posted it on facebook. My privacy felt invaded but I thought it was funny because she didn't completely get away with it. We had a mutual friend who told me so i asked to be her friend and told her if she's going to have a picture of me online then she needs to at least be my friend and tag me in it.

[Whidbey78]

All I can say is "Benn there, dealt with that."

First, you're in Wal-Mart, a place in which the rules of common decency fail to apply.

Second, you weren't wearing clothes that came from Wal-mart, so you stood out.

Third, you were dealing with young girls who have no sense of manners, probably don't have an example of a real man in their lives, and a profound ignorance of the world and have probably grown up on the diet of "rich spoiled brat" reality shows that make me want to throw my TV into the street. They're ignorant jackals because they were raised by ignorant jackals. They're rude and stupid because their parents are the same way.

Set a better example for your own kids and forget about them. I hear school girls giggle sometimes, but why should I care? Last time I checked I was old enough to be their father!

[CDNSushi]

Teenagers are the reason why some fish eat their young... ;-P

[LANCER1562]

I have shopped at Wal-Mart (by choice) while kilted several times recently and either had either compliments or no comment at all as if I were wearing p@#$s.

The last time I shopped there I was wearing my USAK kilt in U.S. Army tartan and my ARMY polo shirt. I got a smile and a "that's so cool" from a couple of girls from the high school accross the street. So, not all people who shop at Wal-Mart have single digit IQs nor are all teenaged girls functionally brain dead, rude, crude and socially unacceptable brats. It depends entirely on how they are taught (or not) at home.

[2176agp]

I called the store manager last night and he informed me that their plain-clothes asset protection people caught the girls and had them removed from the store.

It wasn't so much the attention, if you will, I get that all the time. It was the snarky 'queer in a skirt' comments that both my wife and I overheard.

Here's the rub. I am a person of somewhat larger heft if catch my drift. I am very sensitive about this. To be honest, I hate it. Yet, I still try to look good. I can't wait until I can be at a healthier weight, and, pardon the superficiality of the way this sounds, look as good in a kilt as some of you thinner guys. So, these two girls just set me off!!!! I was in a bit of a blue mood anyway (for other reasons) and their actions really hurt.

On the positive side of things vis a vis Walmart, just 6 weeks earlier at the same store some boy scouts and their mum's were selling popcorn as a fund raiser. Seems the one woman's husband wore a kilt for their wedding and they wanted to get one for their son without paying an arm and a leg -- oh and the son really wanted one too!. Taa-daa -- websites all scribbled down and passed along.

I guess it takes all kind to make a Walmart!

Tony

[Chas]

Tony, I can sympathise. Although I am slowly losing weight, I am still a bit heavier than I would wish to be. It is for that reason that all my kilts are tartan. A couple of them are acrylic, but none are are of a contemporary style.

To my eye many of the modern kilt styles tend to 'flair' out at the hem and unfortunately do look a bit skirtlike. Until such time as I loose a lot more weight, I will only wear tartan kilts.

Many of the modern kilts were designed for tall slim men. Tartan, I have found is far more forgiving than canvas or denim. I know that in the past, I have looked like a fat man in a kilt, but I have never looked like a man in a skirt.

Regards

Chas

[aviewfrom]

www.peopleofwalmart.com could be the reason for the girls wanting to take a picture. It's a really tasteless website where people post pictures of walmart shoppers to make fun of them.

[Tartan Tess]

I think the fact that so many people have cell phone cameras at beckon call has snowballed into a tasteless abyss of no manners.
Some are just looking for anything to take a picture of.
Teenage girls especially....go ahead, get mad at me for that comment if you like but I have been a school bus driver for 31 years and now, pictures and videos from cell phones are a BIG PROBLEM (we had a fight on a bus a few weeks ago almost make it to youtube) Teen girls like to make fun of people, teen boys like to gross out each other. This is my humble opinion.
A very big problem in todays world. what happens in "Vegas" doesn't always stay in Vegas anymore.