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By the way, when I got my first job as a person who walked around a theater lobby selling flowers, I was given this advice:
When you see someone someone who is obviously single and on a date, ask them if they want a flower for their wife. They giggle, they blush, and it sells the flower a lot of times. If you see someone who looks good and married, ask them if they want a flower for their girl friend. If you see someone who looks young and is self conscious about it, call her "ma'am" (respectfully). And vice versa, call the middle-aged woman "miss."
Not me, I LOVE it! I feel like it's a title I finally earned. What I hated was being called "young missy."
Me too!! (I got called young missy plenty of times when I had what my mom considered a smarty attitude!)
I think the lack of a Yes/No M'am and Yes/No Sir is disrespectful and a great indicator of what is wrong with our society today. (Maybe I feel this way because I am southern....I realize other parts of the country and world do not use this custom as much as we do.)
I'm definitely old enough to be "ma'amed" so I 'm fine with it. Here in the south, it is a title denoting respect. So I have no problem with it. In fact, I occasionally call women "ma'am" if I need to address them at work. Not my co-workers, I mean, but our customers.
I'll take 'ma'am' over 'babe' any day of the week.
Lol, Im on the same wavelength as you!
Actually I got that a LOT when visiting in TN or OK. The men tip their hats to you and are more polite (than Im used to) than when I lived in Az and even here in Calif. I like when they address you as 'little lady'.
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Here in the south, it is a title denoting respect. So I have no problem with it. In fact, I occasionally call women "ma'am" if I need to address them at work. Not my co-workers, I mean, but our customers.
