Officiated a wedding in my kilt...some good,-some bad.

[Jock Scot]

There are. But I cant figure out how to post them here since I dont do photobucket. I am one of those archaic dinosaurs who can handle the image button but not the other hoops one must jump through...lol.

Go on give it a go, if I can do it then I am sure you can. With the help of the kind mods. and some of the long suffering members here, even I have managed to get some pictures posted! Amazingly its not too difficult, providing the advice given is in "technodunce" and not computer "jargoneese".

[Derek Conley]

Then after a bit came anothe rdrunk who was a friend of the groom. he lifted my kilt up to see what was under and I told him he wasn't my type so leave me alone. You expect that sort of thing from one idiot once in a while. But shortly after, he did it again. I felt the breeze and turned to se ehim there. I grabbed his hand and twisted it, pushed him away (havign lost my temper now) and told him "If you f****** do that once more you are going to be knee deep in floor." Thr groom comes over to apologize, the drunk looks stunned, and then people start to either back me up oir tell me I am asking for it dressing lke that.

Good for you for being decisive when that idiot decided to so something so ridiculous. I don't think that people understand that were you to do that to a woman, you'd be sitting in jail shortly thereafter; technically, by the letter of the law, the same thing applies here.

Guy's lucky you didn't knock his teeth out.

[Highlander31]

I've only had a few people say anything derogatory to my face. They usually say it when they think I'm out of earshot. To those who have said it to my face, my reaction has varied from a willingness to have a close interpersonal discussion with them (an old team mate's description) to verbally browbeating them. However, the best response I've ever heard was my wife's reaction to a man wanting to know why she would go out with her husband in a dress. My wife is 5'2" and 110 pounds dripping wet (I'm 6'3" and 210 pounds.) She turned to the man (who was my size) and said in a voice loud enough for the rest of the pub to hear "only a real man can wear a kilt, because it takes courage, something he obviously didn't have." She then proceeded to tell the other women present that a man in a kilt was a better lover than any man in a pair of pants could ever hope to be. Having said that, she pulled out the photos of our seven children to prove her point. This guy turned red and looked like somebody who wished they could become invisible. I actually felt sorry for him.

During the course of the evening, we had both men and women come over and ask about kilts and where they could be purchased.

[Caddy One]

I use to live in Scotland County, NC Scotland County has a tremendous amount of Scottish Heritage.....anyway make this as short as possible...I would attend functions wearing my kilt and people would ask me why I was wearing a kilt....Some things I will never understand...........

Seems to me you handled your situation very good.......Once again it reverts back to some people don't have the ____to wear a kilt and it is a jealousy thing to them.................

Enuff said on my part......this has been discussed many times over and will continue.......

[macwilkin]

Almost every time I wear my tartan kilt, I get some ejit who asks me if I play the pipes. I usually tell him not if I want to stay on friendly terms with my neighbors. The last time I was kilt checked it was by a very attractive young lady who asked first; but never by some drunken lout. I think you handled the situation quite well. As Ron White so eloquently put it, "You can't fix stupid"

I always consider it an honour to be confused with a piper, especially a piper like these gentlemen:

http://battlefields1418.50megs.com/dlaidlaw.htm

http://www.chilliwack.com/main/page.cfm?id=728

Take it as a compliment.

Todd

[slohairt]

There isn't much you can do, really. These people (thankfully few) seem to exist everywhere. When the uncultured, insecure, and semi-homophobic imbibe "liquid courage" and see something like a kilt, they can't resist puffing themselves up by putting something down, it seems.

I don't deal with this often, and I sometimes wonder if it has to do with the fact that the kilt seems to have a bit more visibility in Canadian society. Besides Highland Games, we have pipe bands for everything and anything, and we still have Highland regiments.

Still, I do get the question "Are you a piper?" on a fairly regular basis. I think that says something about how much we marginalize culture.

[McFarkus]

Had a great experience of being asked about bagpipes. I was with the Chicago rabble on a pub crawl while we were entertaining MacTavishofJapan and his lovely bride. We were walking between pubs and a somewhat drunken reveler asked the six of us, "Where are your bagpipes.?"

We turned in unison and replied, "Under our kilts, want to play them?" Not another peep out of the guy was heard.

[randal]

Too bad you can't pick your family, huh? I think you did the right thing with the drunk; you can only be polite so long before you must make your stand.
I recently attended a wedding, kilted, in Klamath Falls and the question of the day was, "Do you play the pipes." My best answer was, "Not if you want to retain your sanity".
On a side note, where on the coast was the wedding? I live in Reedsport and am always looking for a kilt friendly place to visit.

[Galb]

I have yet to have anyone peak under the kilt. I do get asked, but only by women, which I have no problem with them asking. My wife may though. To me it is all in good fun. I have yet to run in with anyone who questions my sexuality. I do, however, get asked often if I can play the pipes. I usually respond with "I wish!"

I did have one woman, an older one, ask loudly in the mall "Hey, where are your pipes?!" It was in good fun, but so was my answer...

"Under my kilt!"

I think I embarrassed her. I love being a smart *** sometimes.

[###KILTEDKIWI###]

"Under our kilts, want to play them?"

and my new favourite response is now the above...