Quote Originally Posted by Tobus View Post
Amen! Other lost courtesies include opening doors for ladies, helping a lady into and out of the car, helping a lady into and out of her coat, pulling the chair to seat a lady at the table, rising when a lady enters or leaves, etc
Those are lost? Whoa...who knew? I do them all the time. Years ago I used to regularly go vegetable harvesting with a friend of mine's wife. Many people thought we were happily married, because we were always polite to each other and never argued. At any rate, she always enjoyed the courtesy of an open door or a hand with her jacket. Her husband, an otherwise fine man, would simply say, "You're a person, you can open it yourself." Different strokes, I guess. (Yes, I wanted to belt him one, but correcting his behaviour wasn't my job...)

In re: hats. I was always taught that a man should remove his hat when entering any public building such as a library, court, police station, bank or government office. When entering a business for the purpose of a meeting one should uncover. If it's a store, the hat may be left on unless one is meeting someone or applying for a job. Hats may be worn in a bar, tavern or pub. If you are seated at a lunch counter you may leave the hat on, but if you are seated at a restaurant table or booth the hat should come off.

One also never yelled at an older man or woman to "come here!" You can ask them to wait, and go to them. Children learned that very quickly, and also learned to feel warmly toward adults who would walk over to talk them rather than ordering them over.