re: Open the Car Door for your Woman

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younger women seem confused by it.

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What is more confusing to younger women is that the guy should walk on the street side. A while ago, I was leaving the courthouse in DC with a much younger female lawyer. We were walking a few blocks to the parking garage. As we crossed streets she seemed befuddled that I would come around from behind her and walk on the outside. After about the third time she said, "What are you doing?". When I explained why I was walking on the outside she asked me to stop. I did but that was as uncomfortable for me as my insistence of walking on the outside was for her. Oh, well.

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I’m a stickler for elevator etiquette too. Women enter before I do and exit before I do. I’ve taught this to my male kids. Older women appreciate it; younger women seem confused by it.

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Younger women realize this always allows you to have the drop on them.