Is chivalry dead?

This happened to me the other night. We were waiting at a restaurant for our table. There were no seats left in the waiting area. One nice gentleman stood up and offered me his seat. I said no, but he insisted. They were called shortly after. As they got up, another family raced to their seats – husband, wife and their two children. There was enough room for three of them. The husband sat down with his two kids. I guess I must have had a look of kind of shock/horror on my face, because the wife said “the man is supposed to give up his seat to the woman, HONEY.” And he replied “What? No one does that anymore. That’s dead.” I couldn’t keep my mouth shut and said “What? Chivalry is dead? I don’t think so. I just had a man offer me this seat.” He still didn’t move and his wife mouthed something at him. Then he said to me “Thanks, you got me in trouble.” Too bad, dude!

The obvious difference between the two men was their age. So, it is one for the ages?

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