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OMG...me too, considering I am only 31, makes me feel like I am 95. Just a piece of advice to cashiers etc, try callin us center of the road ladies Miss instead of Ma'am.
I don't mind be called Ma'am (I'm 27). I'll admit that unless the person looks like a teenager or college student, I use Ma'am over Miss. DH calls me Babe, but I'll be darned if someone off the streets called me that. How degrading...
I don't mind being called Sugar, Darling, Sweety, etc by strangers as they are polite, but babe, to me, implies something else (like a guy calling a female a "hot babe", etc). No thanks, I am no one's babe except for my husband!
My mom calls be Baby and Sweety, my dad calls be Sweety, Sweetheart and Honey and my hubby calls me Hon and Babe. I call him hon, babe and Punkin (occasionally), but if he called me Shnookums or something like that, he'd get a weird look from me! (Yes, I know that be calling him punkin makes that a double standard).
As for in public...
A quick, "Hey, Hon, did you see this?" or "Babe, did you remember to grab such and such?" is one thing, but "Babe this, Babe that"...
And "like"...
If you aren't sure what you mean and have to make it sound like an analogy, then think before you talk. "It's, like, the cutest cat ever".... like? Like what? It isn't quite the cutest, but it is like the cutest cat...it's similar? Or what about, "like, whatever".
"Like" just replaces "um"...slow down and think first...problem solved.
OMG...me too, considering I am only 31, makes me feel like I am 95. Just a piece of advice to cashiers etc, try callin us center of the road ladies Miss instead of Ma'am.
I don't mind be called Ma'am (I'm 27). I'll admit that unless the person looks like a teenager or college student, I use Ma'am over Miss. DH calls me Babe, but I'll be darned if someone off the streets called me that. How degrading...
My mom calls be Baby and Sweety, my dad calls be Sweety, Sweetheart and Honey and my hubby calls me Hon and Babe. I call him hon, babe and Punkin (occasionally), but if he called me Shnookums or something like that, he'd get a weird look from me! (Yes, I know that be calling him punkin makes that a double standard).
As for in public...
And "like"...