Quote Originally Posted by mull View Post
It's a fine line between clever and antagonistic. I suppose how clever you can be is a function of how well you box.
My responses are never designed to elicit a fight. The last thing I want to do is get blood on my expensive wool kilt...... mine or his

I usually tailor my response to the situation..... if it's a senior citizen who truly thinks I might be a parade participant, I'll be polite, but when some smarta** thinks he's funny, I usually like to verbally spar with him. Someday it might lead to fisticuffs, but I'm not going to worry about it. In the two years I've been wearing the kilt, I've never even gotten close to an altercation. I've found that even drunks think it's cool, and unless you're swishing around in it, most guys give you credit for having the gonads to wear one. We usually have a couple of Marines and retired cops at our kilt nights, and no one seems to want to mess with a 6'1", 205lb guy in a skirt!