Posted on 12/14/2012 5:29:50 AM PST by Kaslin
The only way to give a Buggery voter some sense:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI-VY5cC2jk
This is what I call a teachable moment, Neanderthal style!
New rule: when south of the Potomac, I hold the door for a lady, because odds favor that she is one. North of the Potomac? I'm sure you can get thru the door while carrying all those packages...MEN do it all the time. Careful with those eggs, honey...your partner doesn't want them scrambled until TOMORROW morning.
The only way to give a Buggery voter some sense:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI-VY5cC2jk
This is what I call a teachable moment, Neanderthal style!
Wow...I thought I was the LAST 'nut' left in this country that acted like that... :-)
It took my wife a while to get used to that 'sidewalk routine'...
I love it!!!
Typical as*hole who thought he could do what he wanted...Henry Hill showed him a thing or three.
That Corvette...SWEETNESS!!!
Yeah, even Birkenstockers and Earth Shoes. Or maybe she wore Viet Cong sandals back then.
There are a few things I am trying hard to keep.
I try to take off my hat when I enter a public building.
I believe that a handshake can still be a window into someone’s character (though not in isolation)
I believe in “Please”, “Thank You” and “You’re Welcome”.
I make a point of opening doors for my wife...especially the car door. I think it amuses her...:)
I hold doors for everyone. I will say, though, that one thing that really frosts me is when you do hold a door open for someone, they walk through it as if they were entitled.
There’s one practice that I try my damnedest to do, but I always wind up forgetting or otherwise dropping it depending on the company I keep: standing when a woman enters the room.
There were numerous occasions when I was a teen when I was outright laughed at for standing when a woman entered the room. In many ways, high school “bred” it out of me. When our teacher would come in or any adult of stature, I would stand up from my desk out of respect. I think by halfway through my freshman year, I’d all but stopped doing it.
When I was growing up, we were required, by threat of extreme death glance by my step-father, to stand for any woman or elder who entered a room. We were not to sit before our mother sat down. We were not to sit until our elders sat. Made for very interesting dates with some girls when I was growing up. It was so “quaint” to them. For me, it was a requirement.
I pine for the old days.
Drive away and leave 'em standing there. One way or another, they won't do it again.
In which case, you are frustrating the best efforts of the professional maitre d's.
The best try to seat the ladies so that they are facing the dining area, so as to decorate their restaurant with beautiful faces.
I’ve been holding doors open for women for over 30 years., since my mid teens.
I tend to be polite and hold doors for men, the elderly. Pretty much everyone.
I’ve never encountered any problems from anyone I have ever held a door open. Never happened once, and I do it several times a day. Maybe, 1,000 times a yeat or over 35,000 times since I started.
Oh I get it. I’ll often just take the seat given regardless of position, but I keep watch over my shoulder and use mirrors and other parts of the restaurant to keep watch. I’ve been through several tactical training courses that kind of breed it into you.
My wife’s gotten to the point where she just assumes where I’ll sit and takes the opposite. One high-class restaurant we visited on vacation actually asked me to switch with the lady.
A what? What kind of restaurant are we talking about here? ;-)
That was a perfect response. As the saying goes, “Be careful what you ask for, you might get it.”
I usually go out of my way to be gentlemanly. I can’t recalle ever getting a sneer. Sometimes I get ignored, but mostly thanked.
Glad you like it.
I had a woman (term used loosely) yell at me for opening the door a few years back - I said “I would open the door for anyone so don’t feel privileged” - seconds later I thought of the dog quip but the moment had passed - still I have it in reserve.
Mel
I have taught my two sons to hold open a door for ladies and the elderly. I have also taught them that if they get a classless response from a woman for holding the door open for them to flat out tell them: “I’m sorry ma’am, my Dad taught me to hold open the door for a Lady, he didn’t teach me how to recognize your kind.” and then walk off.
And that is the reason why feminists do not understand chivalry. They incur no penalty for being rude, obnoxious, aggressive; in short, everything they purport to despise about men. That sort of wallowing in ignorance may be a lot of things, but liberation it is not.
When women and men reject the time-proved practice of chivalry, you get what I observed yesterday: a foolish guy kicked a woman “friend”/acquaintance of his in the butt. Her friends (and she) took objection - the friends were very very vocal in taking him on. I guess they weren’t so happy about seeing their friend treated as an “equal”-to-male-friends.
This was among liberal-college students.
I bet they would heartily disagree with this study.
Respect for women can not be overdone by men.
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