Official word from my HR dept...

[Jack Daw]

You're very lucky, Lethearen. I wished my employer would allow it. The kilt is not considered "business professional." I have had the oppotunity to wear it when I played the pipe in the office on two occasions. But, since they continue with this dim view of the kilt, I may not provide my piping services for free any longer.

[Whidbey78]

YES!!!!
I just heard that a woman's magazine (don't know which one), released a poll stating that 68% of women prefer men in kilts! I don't know what's wrong with the other 32%.

The other 32% are probably into the styled, manicured, waxed, metro-fied Adam Lambert look. I could get on a soapbox about being a man, and a mammal, and letting hair grow, but I won't. Or did I? Oops.

[BCTrucker]

Well I'm sure it's the same here as there, diversity only applies to visible minorities, if you're not a visible minority, then diversity, and tolerance of culture does not apply.

[socalferg]

Bravo! So does this mean you'll be increasing your kilt collection?

[Alan H]

Time to forge ahead...meaning...buy another kilt!

[Mike_Oettle]

Wife wrote: “There is nothing ‘wrong’ with the other 32%. Most of my friends are not fans. We are normal women that just don't care for it.”

Now that’s a bucket of cold water!
But then my wife isn’t too keen on things Scottish either.
She calls my bagpipe CDs squashed cats . . .
Ciao,
Mike

[Jock Scot]

Wife wrote: “There is nothing ‘wrong’ with the other 32%. Most of my friends are not fans. We are normal women that just don't care for it.”

Now that’s a bucket of cold water!
But then my wife isn’t too keen on things Scottish either.
She calls my bagpipe CDs squashed cats . . .
Ciao,
Mike

Pipes when played near to one do sound like squashed cats!

However, a pipe band and more particularly a solo piper from afar---200yards or more-----is a wonderful sound and still after too many decades, stir the blood.

[artificer]

Pipes when played near to one do sound like squashed cats!

However, a pipe band and more particularly a solo piper from afar---200yards or more-----is a wonderful sound and still after too many decades, stir the blood.

The Great Highland Bagpipes- the only instrument designed to sound better when you're not around them.

JK_ Although they can be a bit shrill when close to.

Mike- It took my wife seeing me wear the kilt a few times before she warmed up to it. She would still rather I wear a suit when dressing things up, but I'm slowly wearing her down there as well I don't think ANYTHING will sway her to liking a full mask sporran though.

[Kornkob]

The Great Highland Bagpipes- the only instrument designed to sound better when you're not around them.

Reminds me of a time 15 years ago.

I was sitting on my back porch about sundown having a little drink and reading a book when I heard bagpipes and I thought to myself: Someone must be watching Breaveheart or some such.

Then 20 minutes later the pipes were still going.

I set down my book and my glass and started walking towards the sound.

Some 3/4 of a mile later I came to a park shelter and within the shelter was a piper practicing. I sat at a sane distance listening to him play till he stopped to rest or get a fresh cat--- whatever it is the pipers do between songs-- and then engaged him in a conversation for a time.

He apparently moves from park to park to practice so as not to annoy the neighbors too long in any one place.

But I still remember how clear it sounded on my porch with the piper 3/4 of a mile away, on the other side of a neighborhood and a small wooded area in a shelter and it makes me smile.

[BroosterB1]

Let me see...My HR says "go for it"...


Course I am the HR, and the bookkeeper, and the sales department, and the IT department; same goes for the the Marketing, advertising, shipping, and public realations... Humm maybe I don't have it that bad. ith: