Slow night at Sears

hiker · Post by **hiker** » Tue May 16, 2006 3:16 am

I wear a skirt or kilt 2 - 4 days a week all over town and so I was surprised at the excitement I created at the local Sears store in my small midwest town on Saturday evening. I was shopping for tools and all of the sudden realized that almost every sales clerk in the store needed to stock or clean the aisle I was shopping in. At the checkout counter there 4 clerks eager to ask about my kilt (a utilikilt mocker), one commented that he had seen someone else in a kilt recently, another asked why I was wearing a kilt (a pleasant conversation). In the middle of the conversation an older clerk (~50 yo - the same as my age) blurted out "where's your bagpipes buddy" in a sneer. I quickly replied "I don't have any, you looking for something to blow?" Explosions of laughter from the younger clerks, "Boy he got you ..." He walked off saying - "he didn't get me." The attention and congratulations from the younger clerks was a lot of fun.

r1g0r · Post by **r1g0r** » Tue May 16, 2006 5:20 am

on a scale of 1 to 10, i'd rate that burn at a 8.5...

not quite perfect, but given the apperant sponteneity of the retort: MUY BIEN!

you hereby qualify to be a high school student in a major american city, or a member of the military in any area. (both being capable of the quality used in handling this heckler)

r1g0r (my hat & hair are off to you!)

hiker · Post by **hiker** » Tue May 16, 2006 10:53 am

It felt good to be back in high school. Most times I just ignore the few negative comments I get and walk away. But usually its not quite so much in my face - that probably why I responded in such a mature way.

Woodsman · Post by **Woodsman** » Tue May 16, 2006 1:32 pm

Hiker, do you think the comments about your kilt come from just curiosity about, "the guy in a skirt"? or do you think that there is a deeper curiosity from the men wondering what it be like to wear a skirt?

Since1982 · Post by **Since1982** » Tue May 16, 2006 8:49 pm

Recently I was at Sears in Key West Florida wearing a converted pair of Khaki shorts to skirt. I was looking at some Makita electric drills and a clerk walked up and didn't ask if he could help me, just "Is that a skirt?" I said, no, it's a pair of khaki shorts. He stopped, looked again, and said, "Where's the other leg"? I looked down with a show of looking confused and said, Darn, I had two legs when I left the car, wait, I DO have two legs, just one pantleg.

He stood there getting angry. Finally, he blurted out, "That's a skirt!!!". I've never been known for being extremely patient so I said, "DOH, Ya think so? How observant you are."

This was only 1 of 3 negative experiences I've had since going public in skirts here in the keys for over 14 months now. I went to the Manager of the Tools dept and put in a written complaint for the clerks permanent record. The manager asked me if I was sure I wanted to do that. I said, yep, I stood there for 15 minutes with him and he never once asked me if he could help me. Isn't that a clerks job? The manager agreed and I left without the Makita, stopped on the way home at Home Depot and bought what I was looking for without anything said but 2 compliments.

(This is for that Sears clerk>>>

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Stu · Post by **Stu** » Tue May 16, 2006 9:13 pm

Makita drills. OMG - I dream that one day, I may be the owner of a Makita drill. Do you know how much Makita drills cost over here?

Stu

binx · Post by **binx** » Tue May 16, 2006 11:07 pm

Great addition to the "under me kilt..." retort.

binx

hiker · Post by **hiker** » Wed May 17, 2006 3:17 am

Woodsman wrote:Hiker, do you think the comments about your kilt come from just curiosity about, "the guy in a skirt"? or do you think that there is a deeper curiosity from the men wondering what it be like to wear a skirt?

There are a couple of other kilt wearers in town and one other skirt wearer (he wears a skirt every day - it is a small university community) and the clerks recognized it as a kilt. I think they were just curious why someone would choose to be different. One of the clerks mentioned he had been thinking about getting a kilt and I think just wanted a little encouragement.

Skirt Chaser · Post by **Skirt Chaser** » Mon May 22, 2006 10:33 pm

hiker wrote:In the middle of the conversation an older clerk (~50 yo - the same as my age) blurted out "where's your bagpipes buddy" in a sneer. I quickly replied "I don't have any, you looking for something to blow?" Explosions of laughter from the younger clerks, "Boy he got you ..." He walked off saying - "he didn't get me." The attention and congratulations from the younger clerks was a lot of fun.

Oh Hiker, that retort is priceless! To be snotty to a potential customer like that is just deplorable. I hope the story got around to all the departments by the next day.

Quiet Mouse

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