[Taxman]

You are, for the most part, right.

HST, I got slapped in NYC about 30 years ago while holding a heavy hotel door open for a "lady."

I was so stunned and surprised by her attack, I forgot to slap her back.

But I still hold doors open, stand when ladies enter a room, pull out chairs, etc., etc.

We Southren Gennlemen are hard wired to be that way, I reckon.

I am also predisposed to ignore the "Popular Culture," and have mostly done so for the past 35 or so years. So what the people Liz Smith hangs with do is of absolutely no concern to me.

[JamesP81]

We Southren Gennlemen are hard wired to be that way, I reckon.

Yes indeed, we are.

[gidget7]

"We Southern Gentlemen are hard wired to be that way, I reckon."


Not to say there are no gentlemen in the rest of the country, but you are right! Southern men by and large are much more gentlemanly. People in the south are much less up tight, much friendlier, not just men.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

HST, I got slapped in NYC about 30 years ago while holding a heavy hotel door open for a "lady." I was so stunned and surprised by her attack, I forgot to slap her back.

That was assault and you should have had the woman arrested. The bitch deserved at least one night in jail for it. It is not a crime to hold open a door for someone. It is a crime to slap someone without provocation. Backhanding her onto her pompous butt, however, might have been far more satisfying and completely justified.