wbc. One thing that I'll never get used to

[scotty]

down here is being addressed properly as Miss Scotty.

By adults and children. H and I don't do that, and I told the kids in the 'hood that they didn't have to, but they said, 'Oh, no, yes we do.'

I feel like I need a lace fan and white gloves.

[cbwm1]

I kind of love that about the south.

[janiejones]

pinterest.com/Manysongs/fans-parasols-gloves-and-lace/

[scotty]

I kind of love it, too.

[scotty]

May 29, 2012 15:20:16 GMT -5 janiejones said:

pinterest.com/Manysongs/fans-parasols-gloves-and-lace/

Ohh.
See, I need to get back on Pinterest. So much eye candy.

[RobotLegs]

Kumquat. Lol

[pirate]

I like it. Although it's almost impossible to transition out of. I still call all my mom's friends Miss Laura etc. I wonder how they feel about that now. One of them just emailed me today and signed it "Love, Mrs. Sue"

[suzieq50]

I say Ma'am and Sir a lot but growing up in the south it was beat into my head. Anytime we went somewhere, my mom would always say remember to say Yes Ma'am, No Ma'am, Yes Sir, No Sir, Please and Thank you. I call people who are younger than me ma'am if I don't know them personally.

[RobotLegs]

May 29, 2012 15:29:57 GMT -5 Que? said:

May 29, 2012 15:24:24 GMT -5 RobotLegs said:

Kumquat. Lol

Oh ffs, I can't even type anymore. I'm leaving it. Im sober btw. I don't have the goddamned energy to change it.

Please don't. It's awesome.

[gretchenindisguise]

We make L do this with her preschool teachers and it's the cutest thing ever.

[Deleted]

I like it, but I'm from the South. Plus, I have a inferiority complex so I demand respect from all legal minors. Those bitches ain't my peers.

[ginger]

I call myself Miss Jen to my friend's kids. True story.

[scotty]

May 29, 2012 16:01:15 GMT -5 @bettyhomewrecker33 said:

I like it, but I'm from the South. Plus, I have a inferiority complex so I demand respect from all legal minors. Those bitches ain't my peers.

lol! Alllllrighty then.

[caffeinebean]

My mom is from the south so this is always something that I've done. Even now, in a totally different region, I still do this.

[hubes]

I kind of want to make my kids do that. I think that shows a very healthy dose of respect.

[dowagercountess]

scotty, ygpm.


Also, they do that here too. It's bizarre.

[alzi]

I freakin hate it. I had a dr that I worked with that would call me miss alzi. To our patients. Finally I said to him that he could either call me alzi or dr alzi.

But he said it in a belittling tone, not out of respect.

[drrn04]

Adding my own confession: I'm going to kind of miss that when we move. I sort of like the formality. I also make Natalie address people in authority that way. Her friends' parents, our lawn guy, our babysitter, anyone older than her basically.

And Ginger, I also introduce myself to her friends that way.

[scotty]

dowager, ygpm.

[pierogigirl]

We have DS1 call his pre-school/daycare teachers Miss Firstname, and the kids is our neighborhood call me Miss Firstname and DH Mr. Firstname and we have DS do the same to the adults. We are in Upstate NY, nary a Southerner in the hood. We like it because it sounds more respectful and it's cute.

[mudslide]

May 29, 2012 15:21:49 GMT -5 Que? said:

My H does a ton of work in Nashville and Atlanta. It weirds him out to no end the way he is addressed there. (like, as a white dude i know youre not making this a race thong but itkumquat something we don't really experience). We come from the most casual place ever, there's no sir or ma'am or any of that.

Giggle at race thong.