It all happened way too fast!

**Kiltman** · 1st December 09, 09:13 PM

So, the older a woman gets the bolder! I bet she has a history, too. There are some terribly bold women out there.

**Highlander31** · 2nd December 09, 01:35 AM

Originally Posted by peacekeeper83

If McNulty was regimental... It's possible she would have passed her number..lol but then again, it might have been good for her heart, to get the fully McNulty...lol

**Pleater** · 2nd December 09, 02:23 AM

Some charity here, fellows - she could have been brought up really strictly, been pressed into being prim and proper and always wearing white gloves at the right time and a hat that looked like a pudding basin with a ribbon round it - then married to a ponderous and pontificating neighbour's son and become the ideal little wife and just so mother and then took up the round of meetings and club nights once the children were grown.

Now she might be out on her own and has got an awful lot of mischief to catch up on and suspecting that there is only a little while to do it in.

People can be like home made wine - sometimes you get five bottles of dull little table wine and just one where there is a sudden effervescence and a dangerous flying cork.

Sure it takes your breath and leaves you with a racing pulse - and it might not even be very good wine - but the world would be a lot more boring without wicked old ladies.

Not that I'm one, of course, but I am far more likely to annoy people than I was forty years ago.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

**nab2488** · 2nd December 09, 05:18 AM

I had a similar experience once when I went to a friends housewarming party. I was looking around the house and came out on the patio there was older woman there smoking. I had meet her earlier in the night. I don't smoke and did not want to spend time on the patio around smoke at the time. So I turned to leave. As I did she just said "What you got under there." and she lifted the back of my kilt. I was unfortunately regimental and I particularly did not want this woman to see anything. However, I was with my girlfriend and she was more pissed than I was.

**Tobus** · 2nd December 09, 05:32 AM

Well, for the record, little old ladies are welcome to look up my kilt any day. It might just make their day and give them something exciting to talk to their little old lady friends about. I tend to give them a pass on things like that. They mean no harm.

**Strings** · 2nd December 09, 11:31 AM

Mine was at the BACA International Conference 2006 in Arkansas. Had a female member dropto the floor, pull the hem of my UK forward to get her look, then get up to walk away. Yes, there was alcohol involved. Funny part was, she would NOT make eye contact the rest of the weekend...

Ever since then, I've gotten VERY quick at catching the kilt as it rises...

**ggibby** · 3rd December 09, 08:02 AM

Maybe it's because I've been 'that kilted guy' for over ten years, but I've been hem-lifted too many times to count. And not predictably.

Guys, gals, strangers, friends, usually old enough to know better. Probably photographic evidence around somewhere, too.

My reaction just depends on circumstances. As I'm always regimental, everyone gets the same show, but I have less patience for sober people in groups. Ladies get smiles more often, but also "OK, now it's my turn!" which tends to set them straight.

Living in New Orleans means the party atmosphere is common, and intoxified tourists are a bit more of a problem, but also I've learned that for costumed occasions to switch to trousers. It reminds people that I consider kilts as clothing, and short-circuits the curiosity and slack behaviour of such times.

**Wompet** · 4th December 09, 12:24 PM

Fergus 2006. I was talking to MacHummel and KiltedStuart when I felt a breeze where there shouldn't be one. I turned around to find a pair (!), one of whom stammered "I just had to know!"

**james a. husky** · 4th December 09, 01:21 PM

"Luckily I've never had an experience like yours. That's some kilt check"

I think, Mr. Standard, that being accosted such as that might be considered: Kilt "Cheek"!

On the other hand... depending on the comeliness of the lady in question...

Jim aka kiltiemon

(Frauline Anthea (a "camp follower" of the Regiment Von Bose) often greets me at a reenactment with a cursory "kilt check"... I respond by grabbing her lustily in an embrace, clasping one check and stating boldly "Woof Woof!!! I LIKE it Firm and Fruity!!!. Neither my ex wife or ex fiance find it amusing, however!!!)

One of the more humourous "Kilt Check" routines (no, not what's under it), was with our Lt. who, grumpy because we were wearing our plaidies battle style (high), made us kneel in formation and went along with his blackthorn stick making sure our "hems" just touched the ground! As you can see, humour is abundant when the public is not around!!!

**james a. husky** · 4th December 09, 01:32 PM

"I've learned that for costumed occasions to switch to trousers. It reminds people that I consider kilts as clothing"

I agree with you, G.! The kilt is clothing, NOT "costume". Whether worn at a reenactment or a day at work. It may have a "historical" context (I own a plaide and two philebeags, nothing modern), but it is still a piece of clothing, worn as such, and considered (by me, anyway) to be no more remarkable than wearing trousers. They are NOT worn anywhere they could be considered as "costume".

Jim aka kiltiemon