Chivalry, Where Have You Gone???

So, in an unprecedented attempt to make some storage space and amaze my husband with my carpentry skills, I decided to go to Lowes all by myself and buy wood and brackets to put up a new shelf above our washer and dryer. Little did I know that somehow that thought was so visible in my face that no man would dare offer to aide me in fear of ruining things for my husband. Just as I pull up both children promptly fall asleep. Normally this would have deterred me and I'd have headed home but NO, I was going to do this. So, I rested the sleeping Ella (25 lbs) on one hip, head on my shoulder and swung the not so light carrier with 20 lbs infant Sylvie onto the other arm and headed in knowing I looked like Wonder Woman. I find a cart, pull it out from the line with one foot and swing the carrier across the back. With Ella asleep in my arms I pushed the cart one handed through the huge warehouse back to the lumber section. I got quite a few looks of wonder and pitty as I carried on. The lumber section was full of burly men. I must have looked quite capable as I "thumbed" through the massive piles of heavy lumber one handed looking for just the right pieces. I finally found the 2 I needed, one being about 8 feet long and high up. I had to move the carrier (one handed) into the high seat in the front of the cart to fit the lumber in the back. I then lowered the large piece of wood slowly from the high shelf and then hoisted it up on the only free shoulder I had. I slid it into the back of the cart and without skipping a beat headed over to have it cut. I then maneuvered my super long cart to find the brackets on the other side of the store, to the register and out the door into the parking lot. I first loaded up the sleeping toddler and then set the carrier into it's place. I opened the trunk and slid the long lumber across the back seats and turned to find a very huge, very built man standing behind me...."Ma'am, can I help you with that cart?" at which point he rolled it two parking spaces over into the cart parking and walked away. And who says chivalry is dead?!