CHIVALRY is alive and living in....

Ozarkgal

Ozarkgal

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Chicago of all places!

A friend who made a recent car trip to Chicago from Texas with her daughter, was planning to take to train from Chicago to South Bend, IN to visit relatives, while her daughter attended a business meeting.

Apparently, the trains are very busy on the weekends when people come into Chicago for entertainment and shopping. They had trouble finding the train station and finally with 15 minutes to spare before the train left, they pulled up in front of the very busy station.

My friend jumped out of the car and was in the process of wrestling two suitcases from the trunk when an elderly Asian man appeared and offered to help get her bags out. The gentleman then took both bags, not allowing her to carry one, and proceeded into the station with her, waited while she bought her ticket, and then insisted on escorting her to her train, which was first in line.

When they arrived at the train, she tried to take the bags once again, but he insisted he would see her on board with her suitcases. He got her on the train and stowed her bags for her, he gave her a big hug, and wished her a happy trip.

This made my friend's day to have a stranger appear out of a sea of people and show her such kindness.

It's a sad commentary that we have to be so impressed with random acts of kindness or consideration when they should be everyday occurrences.
 

It is sad OG but you hear so many bad stories that acts like that would be viewed with deep suspicion that your luggage was going to vanish into the crowd. (Or is that just me?)

He's not the only gent to come out of Chicago though. Many years ago we had a telegraph technician from Chicago and he was just the loveliest, most politely friendly man you could want to meet. Americans were a novelty to us back then and we thought that anyone from Chicago that turned up out here must have been a gangster on the lam.
 
Quite recently I travelled from my home town station to Brussels, to do this I had to travel on two trains to take me to London, then across London on the tube to the Euro Star station for the train to Brussels, every step of the way from start to finish I had strangers helping me with my case, from lifting it on and off the trains to carrying it up and down steps at the tube stations, also when waiting in the queue at immigration a passenger lifted my case onto the belt that took my case through the scanner, on the return journey I had the same help again from strangers.

In my opinion chivalry has always been alive but some people are so cynical and moan about the bad deeds that the good deeds get buried and we don't hear enough about them..........................in my opinion there are more good people in this world than there are bad.
 
Ozarkgal said:
This made my friend's day to have a stranger appear out of a sea of people and show her such kindness ...
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... until they figured out that NOBODY HAD EVER SEEN HIM BEFORE !!! He just appeared out of nowhere and, his good deed done, he melted back into oblivion. CPD is asking for the public's help in identifying the man, but so far no leads have developed.

Yeah, there's still some of that going around these days. :D
 
Ahhh; angels among us!!!! :D

Seriously tho; it is so good to hear stories like that, and I do think it happens often, but we just don't hear about enough of the good things..........
 
What I find nice is the Younger generation helping people, like ourselves, as hubby is in a wheelchair, mind you, some of them just don't give a damn, we feel we are invisible especially in the busy periods of travel options, trains and buses etc. we tend to try and travel in off peak times, cheaper then or sometimes free.
 
veejay said:
What I find nice is the Younger generation helping people, like ourselves, as hubby is in a wheelchair, mind you, some of them just don't give a damn, we feel we are invisible especially in the busy periods of travel options, trains and buses etc. we tend to try and travel in off peak times, cheaper then or sometimes free.
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It always warms my heart to encounter nice, friendly, polite young people. Often, they aren't exactly "clean cut" so it certainly argues against stereotyping.
 
I loved reading the original post and responses. As I've gotten older I've had a lot of younger gentlemen offer to help me w/loading and unloading. There are 3 young men in my condo building who have reminded me several times to let them know if I should need help for anything. I would love to tell their moms what a find job they did.
 
I meet so many nice people on my part-time job from all over the country. I fill propane tanks and many of my customers are in trailers and motor homes.

i met a couple from Washington State the other day and they had a beautiful fifth wheeler they were towing. I asked them what brought them to New York State and come to find out, they had sold their house and were going to visit every capital city in every state and visit as many parks and sites as they could.

They had planned this for years and this is what they were going to do until they couldn't do it any longer.

Another time, a sweet older lady asked me if I would pump her gas for her as she was crippled and found it difficult to get around. I did, we talked for awhile and she told me that I was a sweet young man. I told her that I was 75 years old, but thank you. She smiled and said, young man, I'm 90 years old.

And on the other hand, there was this woman who told me to go to hell when I asked her to put out her cigarette before I started pumping propane. She left with an empty tank and I waved bye bye as she left.
 
It may seem odd in connection with this thread but the original chivalric codes were more concerned with martial preparedness and ability than holding doors open.

It was only after Christianity made its contributions to the codes did they begin to include such niceties as picking up a lady's hanky. Originally it was all about honor on the field of battle and obeying your Lord.

The prime rule was to protect the weak. To do this you had to be strong. Back then if you beat up an evil-doer you were hailed as a hero.

... now you get thrown in jail.
 
That Guy said:
Protecting the weak sounds good to me.
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As it always has to me, since I was a tot watching Crusader Rabbit.

Unfortunately the world has gone insane in the intervening years, where what was once up is now down and what was right is now wrong. Now when you protect the weak you run a very real risk of being pounced upon by a large group of men with pens and briefcases, and THEIR power is ultimate.

The only way to do right these days is to do it and scram before those men with pens show up.
 
I loved Crusader Rabbit! But, let us not forget . . . Powdered Toast Man!!!

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What a lovely post... I agree Chivalry is everywhere, and most men and young men are very polite,, helpful you only get the odd one that
isn`t, nice to hear Bee`s story that is just so nice and I agree with her .. must be lovely to be able to visit Brussels and go to London and through the chunnel on the fast train... I never got to do that as went by boat.. but anyway thanks for this lovely post it sure makes the world a better place.. and I also loved Crusader Rabbit on tele when I was young.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMyhH81IV9o this brought back so many memories...
 

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