Freudian slip?

[James MacMillan]

Yesterday, as I was headed out the door to run some errands, I asked my wife if she needed anything, and she asked where I was going. I ran over the list of stops and also mentioned that I was going to stop at the DAV Thrift shop. She asked what I was going to the thrift shop for, and I told her I was on the look-out for another tweed jacket to convert into a kilt jacket.

To that she said “Now that you don’t wear clothes anymore, why don’t you just convert one of your regular jackets?”

This floored me. I’ve been full time kilted for over three years, maybe four, I’m bad with dates, and she just now is accepting it?

And her choice of words bugged me also. “don’t wear clothes anymore” ! !

Just what does she think I’ve been wearing? Sure it was probably just a Freudian slip, but that means that deep down, she thinks the kilt is not dressed.

On the one hand, I’m glad that she finally seems to accept that my kilts aren’t just a phase, or a mid-life crisis. On the other, she thinks I’m not wearing clothes?

Oh well, the heck with it. I'm happy with the way I dress, and I regardless of what she thinks, I'm not going back to those hated cloth tubes.

I looked in my closet, and I should be able to convert at least three jackets and get some more wear out of them. There is always a silver lining as my Grandmother MacMillan used to say.

[ccga3359]

Kilts are more than merely clothes, for you they are a lifestyle.

[James MacMillan]

Writing that helped cool me off - and now I'm just waiting for the first time she says..... "Do you really think those flashes go with that tartan?" .....

Also, I must keep remembering, that she seems to have bought something from a Scottish type company, so maybe her acceptance is further along than I realized.......

Women - - - - - - I will never (I never even try!) understand them! But I sure do like them around, especially on a cold night.

[cessna152towser]

Somehow each kilt has an individual character in a way that mere clothes such as trousers can never have.

[TheKiltedWonder]

Ouch! Well, at least you've found three more jackets and potentially something from a Scottish-y place!

[Archangel]

Think positive. Maybe the Freudian slip was going somewhere interesting and you got grumpy. Eh, know what I mean, nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more, say no more.

[James MacMillan]

Think positive. Maybe the Freudian slip was going somewhere interesting and you got grumpy. Eh, know what I mean, nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more, say no more.

I do think positively! I am absolutely positive that I will never understand women.

[Archangel]

Easy, treat women the way you'd treat tigers: react slowly, speak softly, be gentle, and be ready to scratch them just behind the ears.

[fluter]

“Now that you don’t wear clothes anymore, why don’t you just convert one of your regular jackets?”

Let me tell a story for comparison: {/begin Hijack} As y'all may have heard, I sing in a church choir. So most of the people I see regularly on Sunday morning are accustomed to seeing me before the service in an ankle-length purple cassock, but they may not know me by name.

If I run into them elsewhere, I'm "out of context" and it sometimes takes a moment for them to place me. This usually happens when I run into a respectable matronly citizen at the grocery. We smile and say hello; she gets the look "I know this face, but why and where." I introduce myself, we establish that she sees me in the choir regularly.

Then she says: "I didn't recognize you with your clothes on." When she realizes what it sounds like to a bystander, then we both bust out laughing.

{/end Hijack}

[James MacMillan]

GREAT comment for a grocery store!