Unkilted comment

[Streetcar]

Last week my family was in Colorado, visiting with some old friends of my wife. Now my wife is tolerant of my kilt, but as many of you know, that’s a far cry from being actively enthusiastic about me wearing it. So as it was her friends we were visiting, I agreed to leave it at home.

Well, about the third night we were there, I was sitting on the back porch of the house a group of us had rented. I was smoking my pipe, waiting for the grill to heat up. About that time, one of the women from this group (whom I had only met this trip) came outside and said, “All right. That’s enough.”
I looked at her quizzically, and she explained that when she first saw me, she was sure I was either “English or Scottish.” Her perception was strong enough that, she couldn’t reconcile an “American” accent coming out of my mouth. Now that she saw me sitting and smoking a pipe, it just reinforced the image. She went on to say I should really be wearing a kilt!

I laughed and told her I couldn’t agree more!

[Blu (Ontario)]

So where was your wife when this transpired? Within earshot, I hope!

[GMan]

Great unkilted comment Streetcar. These type of tales just reinforce why I wear a kilt.

Just out of curiosity where were you?

[Verlyn]

That is just too cool.

[macwilkin]

Pipes, like kilts, seem to attract people. When I was in university, a friend of mine and I used to smoke our pipes in the "quad" outside of our class, we always got a lot of compliments, especially by the female students.

I still smoke a pipe on occasion, mostly at Civil War & Spanish-American War living history events (I have a nice Petersons Briar that "looks" 19th century, as well as a German "Black Forest" pipe with the metal cap on the bowl), and folks just seem to love the smell of pipe smoke (I smoke a brand called "Highland Whisky", btw!)

Smoking a pipe in my Civil War reenactment unit earned me a nickname -- "Teacher"! :mrgreen:

Cheers,

Todd

[Doc Hudson]

I used to smoke MacBaren's Golden Extra in a short bulldog pipe,