9.23.2008

chivalry dead?


i had to be in rockville this morning so i rode the metro for the first time in a minute. i swear it was like a scene out of the stepford wives. everyone looked asleep with their eyes open. including me. i mean no utterance, no conversation, no eye contact, nothing. yup - just how i remembered it years ago when i used to ride daily.

so i soon became preoccupied with a woman who stood and the four men who sat in the seats around her. no, she wasn't old. yes, she seemed pretty healthy; she had all of her limbs. but i still waited. and waited. i just wanted to hear someone ask, "you want to sit down?" they were old enough to know better. they weren't young knuckleheads. 2 had on suits and the other two looked like they were headed to work too. but not one offered their seat.

chivalry is so sexy on a man. i was disappointed. but smiled after thinking how i know my man would have offered his seat.

3 comments:

Crafty Hands said...

OMG,I use to go through that so many times on public transportation. The morals and values aren't the same anymore with men...that went out of the window a long time ago it seems to me. They just aren't gentleman anymore. I had to tell my husband

G-Sweet said...

that pic is worth a million words... im over here crackin up!.... hahaha!

Mink said...

chivalry is not being taught to these young men anymore and the older men have now become complacent with not having to adhere to the morals and values they were taught. it's so sad...