[Ansteorra] new topic

[iainmacc at juno.com]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 16:43:15 -0500 Jane Sitton
<jane.sitton at radioshack.com> writes:
> Greetings unto the list!
>
> I greatly enjoyed the thread concerning chivalry.  I did a lot of
> thinking
> about it, and have come up with a question:
>
> How do you (or do you?) express chivalry in your mundane lives?
>

        I have several things I do, and some things I'm not willing to
talk about. Not because I'm ashamed or anything, but because I have to
make a nearly constant effort not to be offended to the point of enraged
by how casually dishonorable I percieve the mundane world as being.

        One of my favorites is (done this more than once), when I see a
checker in a store who is too obviously having a bad day, and working
hard not to let it affect how she treats her customers, sometimes I will
go back into the store, buy a flower arrangement, go through her checkout
line, and when she gives me my change, give her the flowers.
        Since I'm not a stalker, I don't go back to check whether it has
any effect for any length of time, but it certainly helps her mood for
those few moments.



                      Iain MacCrimmon