You've really got me thinking, boccabum--assumptions...


When I think "old-fashioned", I believe you're right: I am actually talking about courtesy/civility. Courtesy is respectful--he did not move in too close, too fast; which would've had me running like a gazelle in heels down the Mile. But courtesy also provided him with a means of coming physically closer, which was very nice--and came to be very romantic.


I don't think of modern as nasty--do believe that there were some pretty rigid ways folk kept each other in place once upon a time, and That is nasty.


But perhaps you may not know that many men do not automatically offer their arm, nor see a woman safely to her door. Youare (as he was) a kind exception to the rule of my experience.