Something that bothers me

Ok, first rule. Don't get on me for spelling/grammer. I'm an accountant, not an editor. If you have a problem with it frell off.

One of the "left click mouse buttons" on my laptop broke yesterday. Of course it's the one that I use when I'm not using my plug-in mouse. In-order to fix it I have to replace the entire palm rest. Of course DELL dosen't sell replacement parts directly, and of course my warenty ran out over a year ago. This isn't what this post is about but it's just a constant annoyance at the moment.

What's been bothering me is the total lack of gentalman behavior by the modern man. I notice this most often while I'm going in/going out of church. Often times I'm left stranded holding the door open while an ocean of humanity walks past waiting for another non-elderly man to grab the door. Usally what I see is a mother holding one small child while herding one or more children through the door while her husband's too buisy talking to his buddy about god-knows-what to even notice the there was a door there.

The one instance that really peeved me was this one Sunday morning going in for mass I grabbed the door for my family (either my brother or I will hold the door for my parents), I kept holding it for an enderly couple. After them was a young family (young couple with a newborn). I entered and held the door the guy to grab 'cuz he was trotting up ahead of his wife to, what I thought, grab the door for his wife holding thier baby. Instead what he did was manuver through the closing door. I had to dive to grab the door before it slammed on the baby in it mother's arms!

I don't know. My fincee would probably tell me not let this bother me, that I'm one of the last Southern Gentalmen and that I shouldn't compare others to my standards. I can't help but feel that we've lost something as a culture when it's an oddity for a man to hold a door for a woman or a senior.