Overheard in the Student Union

[Tetley]

I'm normally a full-time kiltie, but for reasons I won't go into here, I've been wearing jeans this week. This morning, while I was walking through the student union to grab breakfast before class, I happened to overhear two girls talking in line in front of me.

"I haven't seen the kilted guy this week. I wonder what happened to him."

I just chuckled to myself. It's true... if I'm not wearing a kilt, I'm invisible.

I had a similar thing happen to me. When I first started dancing Ceroc, I work the dreaded trousers with braces to hold them up. I had braces in several colours, just to give some variety. When I switched to wearing a kilt the braces were unnecessary and it was like I was a completely different person. For weeks afterwards I'd be dancing with someone only to have them exclaim at some point, "Oh, you're the man with the braces."!

Even walking around town. If I met one of the dancers they'd quite often look at me blankly when I stopped to talk. You could see the recognition dawn in their eyes and guess what they would say?

Yes, "Oh, you're the man with the braces."!

People are quite strange sometimes. As the old saying goes, "there's nowt so strange as folk except for thee and me... and I'm not so sure about thee!".

Mark