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

[auld argonian]

This phone-stalking thing touches on one of my pet peeves and I blame it all on Matthew Broderick.

Ferris Buehler's Day Off Syndrome...prevalent in an awful lot of suburban kids who come into the city...seem to think that this is some kind of an amusement park like Disneyland and the inhabitants are like those Disney employees who dress up like Mickey and Goofy and walk around for your amusement. It seems to have spread and the possibility of having Facebook and whatnot as a place to post your "OMG" pictures so you can demonstrate how cool you are seems to be too tempting. Hopefully, these little rapscallions will be denied a promotion at work someday because of the "OMG" picture of them acting stupid that some other little scunner posted years back.

Sorry for the inconvenience but the frightening part is that these are tomorrow's "grown-ups"...how scary!

Best

AA

[kiltedwolfman]

Maybe many of the problems in teens these days is a result of a generation being raised to believe they need have no manners and should take no accountability for their actions. There was a time when you could have taken them by the arm to the manager, or better yet to thier parents and knew that they would be properly dealt with. But that time is long long gone.

[Howard Clark]

My sons and I went to Oklahoma D-Day this year (world's largest paintball event). We joined the Commonwealth forces (mostly so I could play in a kilt and not be the only one). It (the venue) is just west of Neosho, Mo a few miles, so the WalMart in Neosho is an easy answer for some things we needed.

You'd have thought I was an alien species, Open mouthed staring and pointing, and not just teen agers.

Fortunately, I don't care.

Next year I am going to organize a shopping trip with all the kilties from our unit, and invade en mass.

[Pleater]

Sometimes life turns around and bites bothersome people.

Some teenagers were being a nuisance outside my sister's house and she went out and asked them to be quiet. They were very rude, but when her husband appeared - he is almost exactly a foot taller and about a foot wider acros the shoulders, they went away.

Next morning the garden wall had been pushed over, and when my sister was outside working to clear up the broken bricks, one of the girls went past and told her that that was what she got for daring to mess with them.

A few months later my sister was interviewing applicants for a job, and guess who walked in. The girl went white as my sister tore her application form in two saying 'No chance. That's what you get for messing with us.'

It doesn't happen very often, but then, it doesn't have to.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[morrison]

So my wife and I are ......

.....My wife was ready to grab the girls by their neck and slap 'em silly. She said to me, 'I get very defensive about any one harassing you for wearing a kilt or just being you.'

First negative reaction in 1 and a half years of being kilted. Personally, I consider the source
Tony

What a good time it would be to capture the culprits in the moment of trespass! Then after a bit of 'slapping the silly out of them' delete the contents of their contacts menu. Yipppeee!!!!

[thatcelticband]

As I have mentioned several times, I'm a big guy. Wifey and I went to the mall once while kilted. After we finished shopping, we went back to the car park where I discovered someone had written "get in my belly" (fat bastard) I found it funny at first.

[CDNSushi]

Man, no offense to anyone or anything here, but this thread is getting to be a real downer. Probably not something I need to be dwelling on first thing in the morning as I drink my coffee...

I think I will head on over to this thread: http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...rcement-60879/ to make me feel better.

[troxel87]

I think I will head on over to this thread: http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...rcement-60879/ to make me feel better.

Amen... I've only had one "negative" response to my kilt, and it's because of the local fare of "ignorant redneck". It wasn't even really negative, it was just a "What's with the kilt?" quiz. Didn't seem too enthused, but not offended either...

I DID have a young lady tell me how much she liked my "uhm... it starts with an 's', right? Don't tell me, don't tell me..! Uh..." I was wearing my black Utilikilt and told her what it was, and her son says "Duh, mom, it's Irish!" To which, of course, I had to respond in kind saying "Actually, it's a Scottish tradition, but this is American!" Kid didn't know what to say after that...

There are certainly many more positive responses than negative, I feel.

[Nighthawk]

Amen... I've only had one "negative" response to my kilt, and it's because of the local fare of "ignorant redneck". It wasn't even really negative, it was just a "What's with the kilt?" quiz. Didn't seem too enthused, but not offended either...

I DID have a young lady tell me how much she liked my "uhm... it starts with an 's', right? Don't tell me, don't tell me..! Uh..." I was wearing my black Utilikilt and told her what it was, and her son says "Duh, mom, it's Irish!" To which, of course, I had to respond in kind saying "Actually, it's a Scottish tradition, but this is American!" Kid didn't know what to say after that...

There are certainly many more positive responses than negative, I feel.

Yeah, that's been my experience, too! I'm a big guy, and I have actually had people come over to me and say something along the lines of "I was gonna make a comment about the skirt, but you're scary, so I just wanted to say- nice kilt!" And then there's the new guy at Tandy Leather who I think has a man crush on me... He thinks I'm the best dressed customer they have!

[GreenDragon]

So my wife and I are in Walmart this afternoon.

Could have stopped there.