Being sick on your kilt...

[Arlen]

Just read through it, it'll get to the being sick part...
(Warning, it is a bit gross.)

Well, everything has all been as sorted as it can be for my leaving Scotland.
I've sorted out a trip to Dumfries on the 12th of April to have a nice farewell kilt night. (Anyone else coming?)
I may very well be switching to doing nightshift these last few weeks to get extra money. (And get on to Idaho time.)
I've posted on what I can to America and I'm slowly packing up the rest.

So I bought myself a really big suitcase and split my kilts into what I will be wearing in these last few weeks, what can get rolled up and packed into the suitcase and what is too fancy for that and will be carry on.

What did I end up with? One kickabout kilt (My tweed)and my two good kilts (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders military box pleat and Macdonald Modern tank) to wear and my Macdonald modern and Pride of Scotland 'Arylicy stuff' kilts and my denim unionkilt in the suitcase.

I will wear my tweed kilt on the flight and carry the other two in a suit carrier so I can hang them on the flight along with my PC jacket.


Now here we get to the being sick on a kilt.
The reason I have kept the tweed out is because it's been so windy lately that I am packing the rest and leaving them for sunny Idaho when I get there.
But when I last went there the flight between Minneapolis and Boise was so shaky that I was sick. REALLY SICK. Repeatedly. And the first bout came so fast I couldn't get the sick bag open.
I was sick all over my kilt and my sporran and spent the whole flight with my head in a sick bag and sweating into my already sick covered tweed kilt.


This is part of why I wanted to wear the tweed kilt again. I haven't scotch guarded it but it was still supremely easy to clean. (I just carefully wifed the whole thing with a damp cloth, left it to air for two days and repeated. Good as new.)
And I got to figuring, if the pleats still looked good and it was so easy to clean I want to wear this kilt again.
I can look good and try to break the jinx. Get a really good flight in it next time. (And keep the sick bag open and ready.)

Now the reason for this post?
It got me wondering what is the worst other kilts have gone through and how did you deal with it?

[James MacMillan]

Bottle of india ink - spilled on a SWK Hunting Stewart - Now relegated to more dirty work - like changing the oil, etc.

[ccga3359]

Not having the protective greasy fingerprints from repeated kilt checks I have to be very, very careful. Best of luck on your next flight keep the bag at the ready and try taking ginger root.

[Nighthawk]

That sucks!! I've gone through anything that extreme, but I learned that bile and acrylic do not good bed fellows make. My son threw up on my Mackenzie weather SWK acrylic kilt. The front apron held it like a bowl, which on the one hand was good, since it kept the wretch off of the carpet, but I almost joined him in his spew fest! I cleaned the kilt, and it cleaned really well, but the fabric shows some damage if you look closely. The front of the kilt is a little fuzzy and discolored.

Have a better flight this time!

[beloitpiper]

The worst was my birthday, pub crawling. Beer and blood. Am I upset? Not really. It gives it character.

[turpin]

I spilled a glass of red wine on my Davidson 16-oz. I learned that day that salt applied to a fresh red wine stain removes it magically.

[Chef]

Worst was about 20 years ago, a knife wound that soaked it with blood. On the upside it was Royal Stewart so it was hard to tell.

[Galician]

Chef, were you fighting English plates even back then? Did one fight back?

[Nick the DSM]

ow, that sucks. hope you can handle it this time!

[creativeaccents]

Worst was about 20 years ago, a knife wound that soaked it with blood. On the upside it was Royal Stewart so it was hard to tell.

Something learned as an emergency room chaplain...where there are blood stains use hydrogen peroxide while the blood is still wet...stains are gone instantly. The key is to keep things moist to prevent drying before using the peroxide.