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Mon 26 Jun, 2006 08:06 am
Most people know I have my down moments but just to add to my annoyance are a new breed of people,usually 25 year old shop assistants who insist on calling me 'darlin''.
Awright sweedhard,aw yoos doin' taday.
I wouldnt mind if they were true cockneys but they are people who have got it in their head to be over familiar and call me 'sweedhard darlin'.
I just want to tell them 'you dont know me, you dont care about me and please dont tell me to take care sweedhard because you couldnt care less if I got hit on the head with a wet mackeral just so long as I buy something from your shop'!!
Are there people like this in the USA or do they only exist in the UK so far.
Ahhh, dats lavly sweedhard, now take care dahlin.
'Ello darlin', 'ow's it goin'?
You want some grits with that, sweetheart?
I 'eaven and 'ell loike that i'm over in britain material girlie briny marlin!
I find it somewhat patronizing when women of my own age or younger call me "dear". I don't know why, it just stirs some inner demon in me when I hear it.
FreeDuck wrote:I find it somewhat patronizing when women of my own age or younger call me "dear". I don't know why, it just stirs some inner demon in me when I hear it.
I do believe yuove hit the nail on the head.She was definately younger than me.
I think if she was an old crone knitting at the bottom step of a guillotine id be ok with it.
Thats it, its an age thing, well done freeduck.
I'll accept Sweet epithets when I'm travelling in the South--or working in the theatre.
Otherwise, I smile bravely and move onward. The older I get, the better I am about ignoring the unthinkable.
I find it quite amusing when some one younger than be calls be darling or hon or even miss. I honestly don't mind. It is much better than the typical clerk that doesn't even acknowledge your existence. I look at it that they are just trying to be nice.
I find myself calling people honey by mistake since having children. I am so used to calling my kids things like sweetie and honey that I have inadvertently called people that at work. It can be quite embarrassing when you start calling certain people sweetie at work.
Linkat wrote: It can be quite embarrassing when you start calling certain people sweetie at work.
And if you're a guy, it can cost you quite a lot too!
Well, I'm not a guy, but half the office thinks I have the hots for them.
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