Small Town Kilting

**Highlander31** · 16th January 10, 10:58 PM

Good story, Ron.

Everybody knows everybody (and everything) in a small town. No doubt the kilt makes it easy for you to be at, or near the top of the known list.

**dfmacliam** · 16th January 10, 11:19 PM

Maybe you resemble the famed Peter McDonald....... the former tribal chairman.. who was in office while I lived there...LOL... i am teasing.. but a kilted Beliigana is probably well known on the rez..

**Riverkilt** · 17th January 10, 12:14 AM

Hah! No way with "crooked Peter"...he's very olde and frail these days...still hasn't paid a penny's worth or restitution...never will.

Guess Page is actually a small city since its incorporated...population about 6,800 with another 2,500 just over the city limits in the Navajo town of LeChee'.

My favorite kilted guy on the rez story is about the Hopi reservation. A high school teacher there named Mike wears the kilt from time to time. We've met and talked. But when I'm kilted on the Hopi reservation its not uncommon for Hopi's to shout a greeting of , "Hi Mike!" Guess all Bahanas look alike - particularly when kilted. [Bahana being the Hopi word for Anglos]

**Tetley** · 17th January 10, 04:20 AM

Originally Posted by Tatonka

Ron, I live in a small town too. I was coming from work (where kilts are not allowed) and stopped at the grocery store. One of the sackers made a statement that caused me more than a little embarrassment, he looked at me and said "What are you doing wearing pants?" The checkout girl saved the little old lady next to me from a heart attack by explaining that I am usually kilted when shopping. As the sacker was helping me with my stuff, he apologized for not phrasing his question better. We both had a good laugh and I am pretty sure that lady had a great story to tell her coffee clutch...

I like it! A kilted version of the phrase "I didn't recognise you with your clothes on".

Thanks for sharing that.

Mark

**Bigkahuna** · 17th January 10, 10:01 AM

It's an INDIAN thing.

**Ian.MacAllan** · 17th January 10, 06:07 PM

Originally Posted by Tetley

I like it! A kilted version of the phrase "I didn't recognise you with your clothes on".

Thanks for sharing that.

Mark

Believe it or not, Mark, that actually happened to me a few years ago, at a funeral, of all places. I had been attending a deep water aerobics class for a couple years when the husband of one of the class members died. Naturally I wore a (business, not swim) suit* to his funeral and one of the other class members delivered that deathless line.

* This was a couple years before I found kilts on the WWW.

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**Geoff Withnell** · 18th January 10, 07:40 PM

Originally Posted by Highlander31

Good story, Ron.

Everybody knows everybody (and everything) in a small town. No doubt the kilt makes it easy for you to be at, or near the top of the known list.

In a really small town, you don't need to use turn signals when driving, everybody already knows where you are going!

Geoff Withnell