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Meander, lumber, wander, immovable, detrimental, digress.  Where can one find all these activities occurring in the same place at the same time?  There are three main areas where this amazing concatenation may be witnessed:

1. One’s home in the wee hours, when a vain attempt is made to render oneself conscious at unnatural hours (prior to 9 am; I would even venture to say prior to 9:45 am)
2. The aisles at the market, store or other aisle strewn locales
3. The side walk

True, one may initially consider comfy, over-stuffed chairs by the fire, chaps comfortably ensconced there-in with scotch or martini in hand, to be a place and time when one would encounter said phenomenon. But upon reflection, there is nothing detrimental or digressive about such leisure—immobility is more the thing there. 

Side-walks, however—aisles fall into this category, too—well that’s another matter entirely. 

From the 1800’s, at least, and through a good deal of the past century, sidewalk etiquette included the following:  “If two gentleman stop to talk, they should retire to one side of the walk” and “Never speak to your acquaintances from one side of the street to the other.  Shouting is a certain sign of vulgarity.  First approach, and then make your communication to your acquaintance or friend in a moderately loud tone of voice.”  (Our Deportment, 1882)

The “Etiquetted” Gentleman I

Some of the most crucial rules of etiquette pertain to the proper treatment of those human beings known as "women."  And so, in this first installment of “The ‘Etiquetted’ Gentleman” (I know, it’s an incorrigible jeu de mots) we take a look at, well, women—ah, that is to say, proper etiquette towards women.     

If you’re a man with working corneas, you can’t have helped but notice that women in our day, despite all the bluster about ‘feminism,” and “women’s rights” have rather gone backwards in regard to actual respect, as they have been treated in the past century ‘til now as they have never been treated in the whole history of the world.  That is to say, it’s not that how they are treated is totally new, but that the disrespect shown to them is on a scale simply unimaginable in times past. 

What does this mean, exactly?  For one, they treat themselves—and we are complicit—like dashed objects.  For example, we should rather, being gentlemen, tell them to put some better, more thorough coverage on, but instead, most men simply gawk, mouth agape, like a cod fish gasping for breath, and encourage matters. 

We can glean 2 very important lessons from this chilling tale:

1. Are you aware that you’re name isn’t Rollo?  You want to get this one right straight off the bat;
2. The correct reply to this unfortunate situation is “Whew”—do you really want to marry a girl who slaps you at the drop of a hat?  I mean, because she’s mad?

In a word, forgetting names is like removing the rabbit-proof fence from around the carrots.  How many jobs have been foregone, marriages never contracted, reputations ruined, and slaps on the face incurred due to name-forgetting?  There’s no poll, of which I am aware, that tell us these hair-raising statistics, so we can make up our own realistic numbers based on a professionally uneducated guess: Millions. 

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