We just got back from a week-long Thanksgiving break in Michigan. It was SO great to see all of our wonderful family members who lived up there and it really made me wish that they lived somewhere warmer (hint, hint, family!) so that we could live near them again. They are just some of the best people I know!
Of course, I suffered from my usual “this would never happen in the South!” culture-shock as we drove North. In Ohio, I went to step into an elevator and the man in the elevator (who did actually have the right-of-way, but I didn’t see him when I started to step in) pushed passed me without acknowledging my existence as I tried to enter the elevator before he had a chance to exit it.
In contrast, on my first day back in the office, a man who was carrying his lunchbox and a tray of cupcakes sped up to open the door into the building for me, pushed the UP button on the elevator, and let me enter the elevator first. A girl can get used to this kind of treatment, which will then prevent her from being able to live anywhere else. Manners -– something I just love about the South! Way to go, guys!
