At least it is Birmingham, Alabama ... this is where I have been for work the past several days.
Yesterday I was leaving my last event before heading back home and I was carrying a box to my car through a fairly busy parking lot. The box was small but it was slightly heavy. My car was maybe 300 feet away and 2 different guys (whom I was working with indirectly) came over and politely offered to carry the box to my car. And then, most impressively, a boy who could not have been over the age of 15 was with a group of about 6 of his friends and he went out of his way to come over and ask if I needed any help. AND he called me ma'am ... I about died because I am NOT a ma'am (quite yet)! I declined all offers but I thought all day about how nice all 3 of those people were - and I am obviously still thinking about it!
I can only hope and pray that if I have a boy one day he would be polite enough to ask someone if they needed any help ... especially as a teenager! You can instill good values (and good manners) in to your children but ultimately they are the ones to decide if they are going to use them or not. This boys mama would be so proud!
This incident just reinforced how important it is to be nice and polite and that manners really do matter ... especially to this southern girl!
xoxo~
3 days ago
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That's so sweet! I too can only hope that one day I can raise a child to be so polite!
Too sweet. I lived in Birmingham for 6 months and really enjoyed it---I'd like to move back there, if I can find a job. Because I refuse to settle down and raise a family in Memphis(ugh).
btw--Hi. My Google reader suggested your blog to me and I really like it. I'm a Georgia girl too :)
That was nice! Thank god there are still good people in this world! :)
That's so sweet!! I love when guys do chivalrous things! Even the smallest gesture like opening a door or offering to help means so much, it's amazing!
good ol' southern gentlemen :) gotta love 'em!
Love that chivalry is still alive! A lot of these Texas boys need help!
VERY impressive for a young man! He either has amazing parents or is Eddie Haskels twin ;)
How sweet! This little story makes me think maybe I should live in the South?!?
I LOVE that -- My sweet husband was raised with 5 OTHER boys (making 6 in all) and has the sensitivity of a 4 year old -- What IS nice, though, is he is willing to learn and has adjusted quite nicely to how to treat a woman --
I met my husband in Birmingham and would move back there in a nano-second given the opportunity. I LOVE it there...the people are so nice and it's such a small-big city!
looove stories like that.
I love chivalry.
How refreshing! We have some friends that live in Birminham and she said you can so see the difference when you cross lines into the south! Good boys!
That is great to hear!
i LOVE those moments. it makes living in the south oh so sweet!
AWWW! That's really terrific. No one would EVER do that in LA I am afraid to say!
That really is sweet! And kudos to his parents for teaching him some manners!
Love it; I have a boy who is 9 and he has a lot of great qualities...I can only hope he would be one to offer to help you! I think we have done a great job at home so I know he would!
This is so refreshing to hear!! :)
i love birmingham! what a great story! it doesn't hurt that you're so pretty!!!
Just wanted to stop in and say I love your blog. It's so nice to know that chivalry isn't dead!
Awwww, that's awesome. It's nice to know that not all of society is going down-hill. There are still nice people left in the world!!
Polite men had good mothers, I have no doubt!!
gotta love southern men!
i LOVE birmingham, lived there for 7 years and would go back in a hearbeat...i call it the "best kept secret of the south" my sis and her husband live there and i still drive over there to get my hair did!
That was really sweet! I wish I lived in the south! I hope my boys have manners like that too!
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Thanks for the nice comments!
I love this post. Chivalry is one of the number one reasons I so appreciate the South - and my husband!
I love Birmingham! Gotta love those Southern Gentlemen!!!
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