Thread: Do you open doors?

I can't really vote in this poll because Validator is my partner and an equal partner at that. Little Man is our charge and we both do whatever we can to help each other help him. What else can a family do?

Say we get out for a night away from the boy for dinner or something, sure I'll treat her with dignity, but she doesn't want too much chivalry so I respect her independent spirit. I encourage it. I am obliged much more by social custom than her impression.

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Yes almost always...and I get treated with a great deal of suspicion! Sad.

I hold the door for everyone, as long as they are only a couple of seconds behind me and holding it for them does not make them feel awkard about accepting the courtesy.

Maybe it's the Canadian in me, but it just seems like the polite thing to do.

I always open the building and car door for my lady. Always.
I have found that when the younger generation sees it that sometimes the guys will do the same for others.
On another note, I will open a door for a lady that has her hands full with children especially strollers.
I open the doors for the elderly.
I like to open the door for a lesbian just to see the glare I get from the lesbian girlfriend afterward. Yea, as if you got the balls to do it for someone else.
I won't open the door for someone, lady or gentleman, that is flapping their gum's on the cell phone.

Originally Posted by leadduck

"Chivalry's not dead, ma'am. It just skipped a generation."

Love it! That's two great come-backs now. One for the snotty, and one for the pleasantly surprised.

Originally Posted by gratewhitehuntr

Shame on me?

The hell you say

GWH - only you know why you extend a courtesy. I was raised that manners and courtesy are not used to impress or embarrass; rather, they are used to take the rough edges off of situations, diffuse tension, show hospitality, makes others comfortable.

Again, like Charity - only you know why you do it.

I always try to. I hate when it gets kind of awkward when you open the door for a stranger and its a push door lol.

Originally Posted by WireBeard

GWH - only you know why you extend a courtesy. I was raised that manners and courtesy are not used to impress or embarrass; rather, they are used to take the rough edges off of situations, diffuse tension, show hospitality, makes others comfortable.

Again, like Charity - only you know why you do it.

I was mostly making a joke about me using manners.

I'm a very nice guy, often to a fault.
I try to live my life under the premise of
"If I died in two minutes would I go to heaven?"


OTOH, I'm good and damn tired of idiots and will rebuke them in short order.
The sting of a rebuke is the truth in it.

There must be two sides to every coin.

Originally Posted by gratewhitehuntr

OTOH, I'm good and damn tired of idiots and will rebuke them in short order.
The sting of a rebuke is the truth in it.

I may not have agreed with much of what you have said in this discussion, that there is one line I most certainly DO agree with.

I think that demanding chivalrous behavior of others, is part of being chivalrous.

Are you kidding, OP? Its SWMBO! Of course we open the doors!