Life at BYU: Men who hold doors for women. And other men.
You know what I’m talking about—it’s all over BYU. The guys simply can’t contain themselves. They rush to reach the doors before all other pedestrians. They cut across walking traffic and jump from outside door to the inside to accommodate people’s needs. They stand at a doorway for minutes at a time, risking their own timeliness to relieve and sustain the famished students wandering campus. Students who are so famished, in fact, that forcing them to open their own door would be a marvelous offense. Of course, there is an womanizing trick weaved into this manly Mormon habit. When surveying the landscape for those most requiring their services, the good-looking girls seem to always have the greatest need. These acceptable young women are instantly spotted and always preyed upon first. Every beautiful girl who walks BYU campus has been fully convinced time and time again that there really are helpful, caring, gentlemanly men in the world, ready and willing to give of their services to the weak and the incapable. But these men don’t stop there—they’re not so shallow. No, they will hold the door for the beautiful girl and the sweet spirit right after her, and then jump ahead for the rickety old women toting her backpack on wheels coming from the other direction. Keeping position for the poor dear boy who has yet to realize the power of door-opening over the lady folk, our hero will then show the first girl through the second door with a wink and a smile and leave the rest up to his manly charm. Oh, those BYU boys!
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