Questions people ask

[Riverkilt]

"Yes ma'am, I do. And your medications are ready right over there at the pharmacy counter."

[Coinneach]

"Yes ma'am, I do. And your medications are ready right over there at the pharmacy counter."

And tell them I sent you.

[Coemgen]

Heeerrrreee's your sign.....

Time to break out the Box O' Stupid People!

[Malcolm MacWilliam]

As an 18th century reenactor IN A KILT...we get them all. We get the usual, Is that a real fire? Are you going to eat that food? (as we are cooking a chicken over the fire or a pot of stew?, Do you reenact at Gettysburg, etc., etc. I often get, (as I'm dressed in 77th or 42nd uniform and kilt, and holding a musket with bayonet, etc.) Do you play the bagpipes? My answer is, Do all Texans wear cowboy hats?...to which most just look quizzically....then I add.....Not all Scots play the pipes, but our piper is right over there! Or....What are you wearing? (we answer, a kilt) and then they quip....A QUILT, oh yeh, my grandmother used to sew those! We had one young gal ask about the sporran.... She said, Oohh, that's a sporgan, that's where you keep your family jewels! (no lie, and she was serious!!). We had a big laugh and told her they were UNDER the SPORRAN! I could go on and on. If we're dressed Jacobite and get: Do you play the pipes? We will almost always reply, NO, we kill the English!! We sometimes get shocked looks at that one. Malcolm

[PiobBear]

I've been giving this some thought:

"No Ma'm; I'm the stockboy from the grocers across the way."

"No Ma'm; but it's good to know that the pharmacists on your home planet are such a dashing, debonair, and devilishly handsome lot."

"Yes Ma'm; the anti-psychotics are on aisle four, just past that dancing unicorn."

"No habla inglés."

WAS SHE BLOND???

As a matter of fact, yes she was.

[Panache]

My absolute favorite piping question was at a summer camp one time.... I noticed a girl standing nearby with an "I-have-a-question-for-you" look on her face. When I finished the tune, she came up, put her hand on the bag, and said "I've got a question. Are those real bagpipes?"

Possible answers should the question arise again:


“Actually I’m an accordion player and this is my accordion, this is all a clever disguise as I‘m working undercover. It’s all very hush-hush, need-to-know basis sort of thing. ”


"No, they are fake, but so cleverly designed that they are completely indistinguishable from real bagpipes."


“Bagpipes? Bagpipes! The man at the shop told me this was a hurdy-gurdy!“


"No Miss, they are a hallucination and so am I. By the by, the Cheshire Cat send his regards"




Cheers

Jamie

[Coemgen]

"No Ma'm; I'm the stockboy from the grocers across the way."

"No Ma'm; but it's good to know that the pharmacists on your home planet are such a dashing, debonair, and devilishly handsome lot."

“Actually I’m an accordion player and this is my accordion, this is all a clever disguise as I‘m working undercover. It’s all very hush-hush, need-to-know basis sort of thing. ”


"No, they are fake, but so cleverly designed that they are completely indistinguishable from real bagpipes."


“Bagpipes? Bagpipes! The man at the shop told me this was a hurdy-gurdy!“

[Nighthawk]

I have had people not notice the kilt from time to time...usually when I'm wearing a t-shirt with some saying on it. My other half will come up and ask, "commenting on the kilt?" and the other person looks down and says, "oh, you're wearing a kilt!"

Ah, the entertainment of living among the distracted.

I had that happen a couple days ag in a Joe's Crab Shack. The girl that greeted us was very gothic looking. I was wearing my Nightstalker and Iron Maiden Killers hockey jersey. She said "Maiden!! Sweet!!" My wife said "Ususally people just comment on the kilt." The goth girls eyes them went my neather regions and bugged out of her head. She spent the whole evening hitting on me in front of my family... It was actually pretty funny. My other half got a kick out of it.

[turpin]

"There are no dumb questions."

Yes. There are.

[demobud]

Once on a jobsite in downtown Atlanta I actually had a bystander ask me "Are you tearing that building down?" as an excavator began tearing into the walls. I replied, "No sir, this is a new form of construction and he's almost done."