What was your the rudest question

[Dirk95]

Tpa.
Where was your cruise, we are off to Norway on the northern lights cruise late Feb next year, the kilts will be the first things packed never had a bad word said to me when dressed up on a cruise yeah even the staff love seeing it.
Derek
Dirk95

[tpa]

Derek, we started in Sydney, then Melbourne, Hobart and across to the east coast of NZ and 6 ports there. I had 3 kilts, one for travelling and daytime wear, one for casual evenings and one for formal evenings. Don't get me wrong, no one said anything bad about my kilts, one person even came up and said she had heard that there was someone wearing a kilt and she had been looking out for me, I can't remember why, there were so many wished to discuss their and my heritage. It was simply that so many "past middle age" people, who should know better, thought, as a complete stranger, it was quite OK to make enquiries about my underwear and who would have been horrified if, as a complete stranger, I had walked up to them, even with a smile on my face and asked them about their's.

One quite loud "gentleman" got such a put down by his wife for asking at our dinner table, that he hardly said anything else for the whole meal, which my wife found highly amusing. It didn't bother me, everyone was very friendly and I can tailor the way I handle it to the circumstances and sometimes it leads to an interesting conversational conclusion, it was just that there were more than I expected, so now I can see better what those US based kilt wearers have to put up with.

I hope your Northern lights cruise is a great success (see my PM) and look forward to seeing some photos. I took over 4000 and my wife another 2000 but have yet to sort out the wheat from the chaff.

[kingandrew]

I get many compliments whenever kilted and can only recall one truly rude comment. I often receive high-fives, thumbs-up, encouraging comments from passersby. Many times people stop to tell me how nice they think it looks. I often have Chinese people tell me I am "beautiful" and that I'm wearing a "nice dress." They mean this as a heartfelt compliment, they just don't know the English word "kilt."

I do get lots of questions. In the USA I mainly got inquiries about my underwear, of course. In China, I get many questions about whether I am from Scotland (the Chinese is pronounced "Say-Gu-Lon"). It is a common occurrence for Chinese strangers to ask for a photo with me, since there are very few 6'3" white guys with reddish beards over here. But when I'm wearing a kilt, there are exponentially more photos and requests.

The funniest comment was on the subway in Shanghai. A couple of young women were very interested in my kilt. Once they got up the courage to talk to me, they said that, "We had to wear them in our school uniform."

My one rude comment was one day at the middle school where I was teaching in America. It was Rabbie Burns's birthday, so I was wearing a kilt and my English class was reading a few of his poems. Between classes, I was standing outside my classroom door, keeping an eye on the kids in the hall. A girl walked up to me and asked, "Are you a girl?"

"No," I replied, "Why do you ask?"

"Because you're wearing a skirt."

I told her that it was called a kilt and is worn by men in Scotland. Then I asked her if she was a boy.

"No! Why would say that?"

"Well, because you're wearing jeans, which are pants you know, like you said boys wear."

The look on her face was priceless. And her friends had a good laugh.


But generally, when I'm kilted, I get treated like a celebrity. And if I was easily upset by ignorant comments, I wouldn't be wearing the kilt in the first place. Wear it with pride and style and be welcoming to all the new people you get to meet, I say.

Andrew

[Dirk95]

Andrew.
That quote to the young lassie had me laughing that was brill must remember that one, as you said I get more pluses then negatives the problem I had with this one was he was right in my face so couldn't ignore him, so i put him right. Thinking over this I've only had this one bad episode, good and bad everywhere eh.
Derek.
Dirk95

[ThistleDown]

I've no rude tales to tell, but I was a visitor in Los Angeles a long time ago and was asked by a sheepish (for a Californian) shop clerk: "Are you someone we should know?"

[Riverkilt]

The rules of the Forum do not allow me to post the rudest question.

I was at work kilted and a female coworker, who happened to be out lesbian, asked me in the hallway, in front of others, how I managed to perform a common bodily function while kilted.

If the number two comes to mind you understand her question.

Yes, I did point out to her that I would be fired and arrested if I asked her a similar question about the skirt she was wearing.

[macmanjim]

The rules of the Forum do not allow me to post the rudest question.

I was at work kilted and a female coworker, who happened to be out lesbian, asked me in the hallway, in front of others, how I managed to perform a common bodily function while kilted.

If the number two comes to mind you understand her question.

Yes, I did point out to her that I would be fired and arrested if I asked her a similar question about the skirt she was wearing.

Maybe a response could have been, "wouldn't you know, you've worn a skirt before, haven't you?"

[Farmhand]

Funny thread!

Its usually the same two or three rude questions, asked in whatever way the suspect is capable. The BEST part is in how you answer (or simply don't)
Once I was at a friends house, and his wife who was dressed in WalMarts finest, with a cigarette hanging from her mouth, called over her son, and disparagingly pointed at my badger mask sporran and made rude comments. I simply asked what values she was trying to impress on her son, and walked away.
Since this is a family friendly site, I wont quote myself, but once I was asked the age old question, in this way:
"What do you have under the kilt"?
?????????

My answer surprised even me. I am usually not that quick!

[kingandrew]

Wow, Riverkilt, that question really was a doozy.

Of course, it also seems rather ridiculous. After all, it would be much easier to perform any bodily function in a kilt, as it is much less "in the way" than a pair of pants. Anyone who has experienced the squat toilets of Asia can attest to this fact.

I recall a story in the wonderful book "Highlanders" (a history of the highland regiments), where a soldier explained to a new recruit that the kilt was the perfect garment for "diarrhea and fornication"--both being issues that often affected soldiers in a foreign posting.

Although I regularly get young women approaching me to ask about my underwear (or lack thereof), I have never had one ask about these less delicate bodily matters.

Andrew

[tpa]

Maybe a response could have been, "wouldn't you know, you've worn a skirt before, haven't you?"

A similar response to the one I've used on many occasions to women asking aren't you cold or aren't your legs cold or aren't you too hot in that? I also replied in a similar vein to men when accompaned by their wives and suggested they ask their wife rather than me. It seems that for some there is no correct temperature for wearing a kilt! Clearly they are either not from Scotland or they have become so used to wearing trousers that they forget the benefits or a loose skirted garment, especially one with several yards of material wrapped round you (when it's cold or wafting around you when its warmer.)

I have also had the converse, in both summer and winter, comments to the effect that you have a good outfit for the weather!

The great majority, of course, cannot distiguish between kilts, and I do to some degree choose mine based on the ambient temperature and wind speed, if going out.