"I really like your shoes" ???

[Geoff Withnell]

Geoff Withnell

[ali8780]

wow. I learn so much from this forum...

[Bill aka Mole]

And here I thought that only my fellow military bretheren would use a line like that... I must live in the boonies as well.

[longhuntr74]

wow. I learn so much from this forum...

I learned the word "chuffed". I still have yet to employ the term in casual conversation though...

Regarding the comment about one's shoes...it could be a tad bit embarrassing if someone took the compliment as the meaning listed in the Urban Dictionary...and the person was actually just commenting about the person's shoes, couldn't it?!

[Jock Scot]

Errrr wellllll, it is wise to keep up with the modern turn of phrase I suppose -----just in case------------!

[DougC]

...and the person was actually just commenting about the person's shoes, couldn't it?!

In an IHOP in San Antonio, probably just liked the shoes and kilt and didn't know it was a kilt.

[Mike_Oettle]

Personally I rather doubt the Hispanic woman knew that definition of “shoes”.

[Tobus]

In an IHOP in San Antonio, probably just liked the shoes and kilt and didn't know it was a kilt.

I really, really hope that's the case. It's so awkward and embarrassing for me now, I don't know if I'm going to be comfortable taking my wife back to that restaurant.

But it does still seem weird for her to have complimented my shoes, since there was nothing special about them. I was convinced in my naïveté that it was just an innocent comment from someone who didn't know kilt stuff, but now that I am aware of the "other meaning", it's hard to go back to believing my original assumption.

I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination, and an open proposition from a strange woman would be the subject of much laughter and ribbing between my wife and me. But if it were indeed some sort of 'code'... that just makes it sort of creepy. Like making sure you don't tap your foot in a men's room kind of creepy. I don't like hidden meanings.

[azwildcat96]

Like making sure you don't tap your foot in a men's room kind of creepy. I don't like hidden meanings.

I had to look this one up...Yep...That's kinda creepy!

[lethearen]

Hey, Tobus. Unless she said it with some kind of suggestive smirk, you're probably safe If she had the bawdy nature to drop that kind of innuendo, I doubt she'd have had the timidity you described.

I'd guess she didn't really know what to call the kilt, and rather than accidentally offend you by calling it a skirt or dress, she picked something else she could identify.

Unless you were particularly immodest when getting up from the table... then she could chosen your shoes to compliment in reference to your feet... and you know what they say about a man with big feet... But still, I think she would have been more temerarious if that were the case.

Edit: Actually, may be even more likely she wanted to compliment your sporran, but didn't want to call it a purse.