While I was in Kansas City a couple of weeks ago, three charming elderly ladies were seated next to me at a tavern in which I was eating supper. They struck up a conversation and after a few minutes one asked me where I was from. After telling her, she said she knew I wasn't from Kansas City, because no one around there said "yes ma'am, no ma'am". So, I guess that might be something I do, in particular with older ladies and gentleman.

Does @mcpapa still driving his horse driven buggy from the early 1800's count?

Don't start eating until everybody at the table has their food.

Pull down my license plate to pump gas...

cave paintings.

 

I corrected that for you.

I couldn't write anything longer than a sentence that was legible in cursive. I rarely write anything longer than a sentence anyway. I usually make and keep note in my tablet or phone. Much cleaner, doesn't take up space or make a mess, and I'm always able to read them.

Does @mcpapa still driving his horse driven buggy from the early 1800's count?

 

Actual unretouched photo of mcpapa on moving day.

 

In a formal dinner setting, I still stand when a lady gets up from or comes to the table, and assist with the chair.

 

I say ma'am and sir. Yes ma'am and no ma'am are automatic responses for me. Sometimes it annoys MrsC when I call her ma'am, but it just comes out.

 

Always hold the door.

 

Hand written thank you's.

 

I still change the oil on my vehicles, and do most of my own maintenance.

Don't start eating until everybody at the table has their food.

 

Amazing how many people do not do this.

Peeing on two legs.

 

In the correct bathroom also.

Apparently not letting my children spend all day and night on XBOX is out of date. This is a battle that I won't lose.

Like Habib I write a lot in cursive. (CURSIVE, you youngins' can look it up)

 

I still send out Christmas cards that actually say "MERRY CHRISTMAS" (Won't buy them unless they do)

 

I check my cars fluids about every other gas fill-up at the pump. (Drives some people nuts)

 

When my wife and I go to a bar, I get a table, she doesn't sit at the bar.

I like to read newspapers and magazines and prefer books over those electronic things. (Nothing more portable than a book, magazine or newspaper. And if I lost it, it's not going to set me back a couple of hundred plus to get another one)

 

I like frosted glass or mug with my beer. (I still like Schoenling Little Kings, Hudepohl, Burger and Falls City)

 

I give up my seat for a female. (Well...if I can tell the person is female)

 

I try not to curse around females.

 

I am very respectful to authority figures even if I think they are wrong.

 

I don't play my car radio loud so everybody else can hear it.

 

I use words like please, thank you, you're welcome, etc. (You know, the stuff your mom and dad would have heard during the days of customer service)

 

Couple questions:

 

To the first bolded — Is she allowed to order her own drink? I recall my mom speaking with disdain about going to Keeneland with dad in the very early '70s and her frustrations about the establishment's requirement at the time that women must have a man buy their drink for them.

 

To the second — Have you had either of these beers in the past few years? They're much better now that they've abandoned their old warmpissbeer ways of the '70s and '80s and sold the label names to craft beer producers.

 

For what it's worth, I try to abide by most of the rest of your post.

Say yes sir yes ma'am to people who are younger than me as well. Get a newspaper everyday. Push my chair back in when I'm done sitting at a table. Hug my relatives when I arrive and before I leave. Help elderly to and from cars at functions.

Couple questions:

 

To the first bolded — Is she allowed to order her own drink? I recall my mom speaking with disdain about going to Keeneland with dad in the very early '70s and her frustrations about the establishment's requirement at the time that women must have a man buy their drink for them.

 

To the second — Have you had either of these beers in the past few years? They're much better now that they've abandoned their old warmpissbeer ways of the '70s and '80s and sold the label names to craft beer producers.

 

For what it's worth, I try to abide by most of the rest of your post.

 

 

 

No, she's free to order whatever. We were raised that it wasn't "lady-like" for a woman to sit at a bar. But since I developed some health issues we don't visit bars very much

 

Yes, have had them recently. There may be some subtle differences as I remember them but for most part still taste the same, and I never drank them "pisswarm."

I follow several things that have been listed in this thread, but one I haven't read:

 

I never use the drive-thru at a bank. Always go instead for the face-to-face interaction with the teller.