Is this rude?

[jxp]

I honestly never made the association. Maybe it's because I watched the matrix way back when it came out and haven't thought much about it since then

Ok. We all have lapses in our synapses sometimes. No big.

 

[Nicks_Chicks]

I'm in the Midwest but tbh I kinda combine both

 

[C Siena]

Honorifics are kind of a big deal in the south but I think it’s generational. I was raised in the west so I don’t ma’am and sir but I also don’t let my kids call older people by their first names because my husband is from the south and he is right about that. Kids calling adults by their first names is…weird. I imagine they don’t think you’re being rude but too familiar in a way. I haven’t gotten any flak for it yet so maybe I’m too old for that haha

As a catechism teacher, all the students and all children/youth would address me as Mrs. Once a 4th grader called me by my first name, I nicely corrected her, it's Mrs. She said, My mom calls you Kimberly. I told her that her mother is an adult and when she could afford to live outside her parents home, pay for her own things, then she could call me by my first name.

20+ years later, many still call me Mrs and smile.

 

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