Bicoy is my 11-year old cousin who just seems to love ditching the fact that boys have to chivalrous. He really doesn't see the need of being a gentleman. I thought maybe because he's among those boys who receive gifts and letters from random girls in school. He has actually grown irritable about that gift-giving stuff and would refuse reading letters and would refer to those girls as pathetic. Being the nice "ates" we are, Ate and I decided to teach him the gentleman's creed. Actually, we tried to start with the basic but failed to move on and decided to just let him be.

Ate: Bicoy, dapat buksan mo ung door para sa mga girls.
Bicoy: Hindi un kailangan.
Ate: Kailangan un, ano ka ba.
Bicoy: Edi magiging abusado!
Ate and I: HINDI!!!!!!!!!!
Me: Gusto mo ba pag kami ni ate, binubuksan namin ung mabibigat na doors?
Bicoy (with conviction): YUP!!!
Me: Ha?!
Bicoy: Dapat lalaki naman ung pinagsisilbihan.

*ate and I gave up*

I guess we just have to wait 'til he finds the girl who he thinks deserves his chivalry. I just think he should start training on it so if time comes he does find that girl, he'd be the perfect gentleman for her. But I do hope he starts considering what we taught him 'cause he doesn't even do it to us!

Hay naku.