So I was riding the bus on the way home from work yesterday when on stepped a middle aged-gentleman, late 50s, early 60s.  He was dressed in black trousers, a red sports shirt (Tiger Woodsish) and had a red-and-white striped cardigan wrapped around his shoulders. I didn’t know that people actually dressed like that.  I mean you only ever see it on sitcoms to denote that someone is flamboyantly gay (think Jack from Will and Grace) or that they are wealthy and/or uptight. The guy also had a sports bag with two or three tennis rackets strapped onto his back.

So I was smiling to myself, thinking: Ooh, a toff riding the bus.  How…incongruous.

The bus was pretty full so the old guy was standing.  Next to him was a woman, of similar age.  One stop on, a seat became vacant and the dude practically shoulder-barged the woman out of the way, despite the fact that she was clearly scrambling to get to the empty space too.  He got there first, plonked himself down and slipped her a satisfied smirk.

I thought it was funny.  Classy on the surface; douche underneath.   How many of my exes does that describe?

chivalry is dead, classy on the surface, Jay-Z, RIP chivalry, run this town