Twice yesterday and once today, I was pleasantly surprised when a man held a door open for me. I'm not talking about keep-the-door-from-slamming-the-person-behind-you-in-the-face type of holding the door. I'm talking about actually holding a door open for a woman. I'm talking about when a man is walking into a building, sees you coming from the other direction, steps back out of the door and holds it open (from the outside) while waiting for you to get there. I'm talking about when you're about to get to a door when it's suddenly being held open for you by the man who was ten feet behind you only two seconds ago.
I think I noticed because it just doesn't seem to happen as much as it used to. Are there not as many gentlemen as there used to be? Do men not do gentlemanly things because they think women will be offended? Or is it just because I'm surrounded by stressed out students 99% of the time? Whatever the reason, it just makes me wonder what happened to all the gentlemen of the world? I miss them.
No kidding...fortunately I am surrounded by lots of uniformed gentlemen on a daily basis. It really is disheartening when I visit outside my little "military world" and see how so many people are too busy to be polite. On a side note ALL the locals in Japan are gentlemen-like!! It was amazing, really...
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