It's probably down to the congenital disregard for all things famous and the physical inability to so much as blink at the sight of a superstar that lurks deep in the couthy souls of the local folk.
It's certainly a different take on these couthie characters who are rooted in the past.
The night was wearing on and the nation's most powerful politicians and their supporters were chewing on cigars, sipping brandy and enjoying a stream of couthy jokes.
As couthy Annabel might have phrased it: there is always someone worse off than yourself.
But, all things being equal, there are many Scots she has now met, representing the couthie, cheerful face of modern Scotland, whom she wouldn't mind introducing to Washington.