
Here was his colorful reply:
"I gotta think a fellow with shiny shoes and a convertible has a little more going for him than some fool peddling a rickety old bicycle down the street."
The statement reflects his Depression-era values, of course, as well as a time when young men would actually dress up and polish their best shoes to impress a young woman. These days young men do not have to make much of an impression, either for the young women or their parents. While some might cheer at the concurrent emancipation of women, I do not think that expecting young women to be treated well is a mutually exclusive proposition with equality.
Heck, even in my heyday of wooing young women way back in the distant 1980s one still had to spring for dinner at a quality restaurant now and then, and putting on at least a shirt and tie was de rigueur to make a good impression with a girl's parents.
This was not patriarchy or oppressive chauvinism - it was good manners and common sense.
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Your grandpa is a smart man, Mikey!
Wisdom is always a precious, yet scarce commodity!
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The right "kind" of women still expect to be treated as if they were special--and deserve to be.
I like this quote from your grandfather: I gotta think a fellow with shiny shoes and a convertible has a little more going for him than some fool peddling a rickety old bicycle down the street.
In my case I was barely street legal. I got my hair cut in a conservative style, put on a white shirt and added a coat and tie. Mom said I looked great. So, when I went to pick her up her mother looked at me in some surprise and told me her father was in the living room, then marched in and announced The nice young man who's is taking our Cindy out. The old boy looked a little surprised as well, but he smiled, shook hands and made me welcome. They insisted I sit and talk a while, and were very nice to me.
It was years before I figured it out. I barely understood that I'd learned something, never mind just what.
::I raise my whiskey glass::
Here's to age and wisdom. May we all live long enough to accumulate it and realize what we've learned - which your grand-dad has managed to do nicely.
That old sense of chivalry is still alive and well, even if only in certain countercultures.
If you ever explore the Society for Creative Anachronism, look for Godric Alburne of the Shire of Western Keep.
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