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Cloud · 10-19-2007, 01:43 PM

Since I'm a very casual person, I generally encourage people to call me by my first name. But a certain percentage of people feel obligated to insert some type of honorific. So I often end up addressed as MizzLee.

It makes me feel weird, kinda creepy, like it's a subservient thing. Sometimes I get it from people I don't know, or even talk to on the phone--I got it from a state transportation Right of Way agent from Houston yesterday. Sometimes I get it from people I know--it took me years to break my son-in-law of the habit. He said it was a sign of respect for his elders.

I'm not that fucking elderly!

oh, and as for ma'am . . .

10-19-2007, 01:43 PM	#1
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	Driving Miss Daisy. Since I'm a very casual person, I generally encourage people to call me by my first name. But a certain percentage of people feel obligated to insert some type of honorific. So I often end up addressed as MizzLee. It makes me feel weird, kinda creepy, like it's a subservient thing. Sometimes I get it from people I don't know, or even talk to on the phone--I got it from a state transportation Right of Way agent from Houston yesterday. Sometimes I get it from people I know--it took me years to break my son-in-law of the habit. He said it was a sign of respect for his elders. I'm not that fucking elderly! oh, and as for ma'am . . . __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"