I open doors for LADIES....and if older,anyone. Say good morning to strangers,(if in the right neighborhood), will ask anyone who can’t reach something in the supermarket if they need help, and say “yes ma’am” and “yes sir” to most who are waiting on me. It started when I was 10 or so, it’s a habit.
You were taught correctly by your parents and probably teachers
It was training and it is a habit with me as well.
But now I see those same 1960’s radicals who said, “Don’t trust anyone over 30” with their gray hair and leftist bumper stickers all over their Subaru’s and Prius’s who, now that they are old and gray, want to be treated with respect, want to have their wise counsel govern our lives.
They are still 1960’s radical leftists. They wanted power and control back then. They wanted it as they went through their careers. And now they want it now that they are the ‘older generation.’
Well, I 1960’s radicals turn my stomach.
And I enjoy flipping off gray-haired men and women driving down the road with leftist bumper stickers all over their cars.
I do it to honor Dennis Hopper (who came to abandon his early, radical ways), just as he did in Easy Rider. When I do it, I think, “Eff you, tyrant.”
I do the same things (except for addressing strangers...just not a habit of mine). I may be dead wrong but I associate the "yes ma'am" and "yes sir" to be related to my Southern upbringing.
P.S. I'm finding it harder and harder to find people older than I to open doors for.
Yep, me too. My parents raised me to say “Sir” to men I was interacting with, and “Ma’am” to females.
LOL...when my dad was dressing me down for something, and he asked “Do you understand?”, if I answered “Yes”, he would raise his voice slightly, and in a more severe voice, say “Yes...WHAT?”
To which I would always reply “Yes Sir”.
Interestingly, many women hate being referred to as “Ma’am”, but I can’t change.
All that... And you’re from Joisey... I’m impressed...