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Model Citizen
Join Date: May 2007
Location: The Voodoo Lounge
Posts: 19,444
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I'm not a "Gentleman"
Listen, I have manners, I hold doors open for ANY woman, I say please and thank you, I try to be polite.
But, when I'm standing at the auto zone, wearing flip flops, cargo shorts and a tee shirt that says "Van Halen, World Tour 1988", PLEASE do not call me a gentleman.
I'm talking about the counterman saying to his colleague; "Bob, I think the Gentleman over there is next."
How about just "Bob, that man is next."
The overuse of the term has caused it to sound condescending or/or patronizing and I'm tired of it.
Rant over.
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