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Are good manners and chivalry dead?
As a youngster a good many years ago I was taught that chivalry and good manners were signs of a good upbringing.
I stand up when a lady enters the room or joins the table in a restaurant, I gladly hold a door open for the fairer sex and I will not hesitate to give up my seat on the bus to someone who obviously needs it more than I do, but two things have happened this week to make me question whether chivalry and manners are indeed on the wane.
In the first, I asked a young woman to take her dirty shoes off the seat so that I could sit down when I got on a bus and received a load of foul-mouthed abuse for my pains. I've never hit a woman yet, but I came mighty close that time.
In the second, I held a shop door open for a young lady behind me who lambasted me for patronising her.
Am I wrong in thinking the way I do or do our women prefer good manners and politeness?
My wife thinks I'm being too sensitive to others, but I happen to believe that a civilised society is measured by the way its citizens treat each other, so come on ladies, am I right or am I just an old Luddite who's wasting his breath?