Hi,
It is strange that you should post this, as a friend and I were talking about a situation only the other day. She owns a hairdressing salon, and she recently had an elderly customer who was chatting whilst having her hair done. She was telling how her husband - in his eighties - had held a door open for a yonger female - I won't call her a lady. !!! She looked at him and said " Don't you patronise me " - The poor old chap just burst into tears, bless him. It is a good job I wasn't there to hear that - I might just have had to have said something. She didn't know that man and he could have served in WW2 for this country. Also manners just aren't the same anymore I don't think.
DottyD.