The power of the kilt continues...

[AKScott]

Went to church klilted a couple days ago.

Young man marched up to me in the foyer after the service, maybe seven years old asked "is that a skirt?"

So I explained about telling a kilt apart from other skirts, how to tell if you are looking at menswear or ladies wear.

He mulled on that a moment or two, pointed at my sporran and asked, 'is that a purse?"

I said, no, not really. It is a sporran. It started out as a piece of armour {edit aparently this is incorrect} to wear while sword fighting and it turns out to be real handy with a pocket sewn into it.

We did a wee bit of fencing with "air swords" in the church lobby, in a discreet gentlemanly sort of way.

We got that over with and he asked about the pattern of my tartan.

I was just about halfway through the short version when he reared back and kicked me as hard as he could, smack in the sporran.

My dear friend (the young man's uncle) was mortified, but it didn't hurt a bit.