This very much reminds me of something I read in Reader's Digest some years back. A woman was sewing herself a new purse and did not have a zipper of the right size, so she used velcro for the closure.
Shortly thereafter she went on a vacation in the U.K. In Scotland she went shopping and drove a hard bargain with a shopkeeper, claiming to be of Scottish descent herself. Then she opened her purse to pay.
Quoth the shopkeeper; "Aye, it's a proper Scot's purse. It screams when you open it."