How Did You Select Your First Kilt?

[Karl R]

If you pack tonight after work and start driving, you have time to get lost once or twice and even catch a Laphroaig or three in New Orleans and still make it to Conyers for our Burns supper Saturday night. I'll save you a slot for a Burns song.

I think that might irritate my better half. She's expecting me to drive her to a conference in the opposite direction. I didn't live this long by pissing off redheads.

Stray thought: how would your family feel about having Aunt Barbara's funeral at her favorite pub? That way, your Laphroaig tartan would earn points for multi-tasking.

Probably wouldn't go over very well with my folks. They're damn near teetotalers. And when I look up my family tree (English, Irish, German, Scottish, Eastern European, French, ...) I have to wonder ... Who in the hell did they inherit that trait from?

In my case ruminative stuff like that was far from my mind... I just went to a local fabric shop and bought some cloth that was passably tartan-like.

I'm with you. My wife bought my kilt because she knew I'd like the colors. (And she bought it off the rack, so it would arrive by Christmas.) My first (and second) kilts are about figuring out when, where, and how frequently I want to wear a kilt. If I decide to get a nice kilt, that will be the recipient of deep consideration.

[tripleblessed]

I think that might irritate my better half. She's expecting me to drive her to a conference in the opposite direction. I didn't live this long by pissing off redheads.

Two things: 1, sounds like priorities in order, and 2, potential for long and happy life.

[OC Richard]

I didn't live this long by pissing off redheads.

How this rings true with me! A sister, a wife, a son, a daughter... I'm surrounded, and I surrender.