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"She Just Called You Honey": My Quandary at Waffle House
Academia.edu ^ | Brett Lunceford

Posted on 08/02/2014 7:14:02 AM PDT by SamAdams76

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To: SamAdams76

How traumatic this must have been. I hope they didn’t put grits on his plate.

I go to the waffle house for two things: low prices and to hear the waitress standing 4 feet from the cook yell the order at him.

If you don’t understand waffle house, get on down the interstate.


41 posted on 08/02/2014 7:56:30 AM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: Textide
He imagines himself as some sort of well-traveled, modern day Herodotus

Every New Yorker who ventures anywhere besides California imagines himself 'well-traveled'.

42 posted on 08/02/2014 7:57:25 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: SamAdams76

I’ll be as politically correct as I can here. Anyone who objects to being called hon by a waitress is a RETARD or a stinking liberal looking for something to be offended by. But I repeat myself. Anyway, if you’re a liberal stay the hell out of Arizona. We don’t want you or your asinine imbecilic politics here


43 posted on 08/02/2014 8:02:19 AM PDT by clamper1797 (I'm a Tea Party Conservative ... in my opinion that makes me "Politically Correct")
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To: SamAdams76

He seems to have been offended that a mere peon would dare address him with a term of endearment rather than the more formal “Sir” befitting his elevated station in life. Unbunch your panties, you pompous ass, and chill.


44 posted on 08/02/2014 8:03:29 AM PDT by Bob
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To: SamAdams76
Wife and I stopped at an Arkansas Waffle House a while back. After taking our order, the waitress called out to the kitchen “Flip it, dip it, nip it and clip it.”

Must’ve been code...

45 posted on 08/02/2014 8:04:22 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: SamAdams76

All that thinking for two over easy, hash browns, grits and a gravy biscuit. What must his world be like?


46 posted on 08/02/2014 8:05:05 AM PDT by jstaff
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To: Bryanw92

Bingo!


47 posted on 08/02/2014 8:06:26 AM PDT by Kanzan
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To: SamAdams76

I don’t live in the south
east... Or south central or Texas... But I do feel mildly annoyed at being called “honey” by a waitress where I live. Makes me feel like I’m at a truck stop, for some reason. But, it is certainly not worth reacting to or being rude about; certainly no offense is intended or taken.


48 posted on 08/02/2014 8:07:27 AM PDT by JustTheTruth
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To: Slings and Arrows

Ping.


49 posted on 08/02/2014 8:07:47 AM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: SamAdams76
It's not just the men. Waitresses at truck stops, fast food restaurants, etc. say "Honey" and "Sweety" to my wife too--"Sugar", "Hon", "Sweety Pie".

I have not encountered men saying such things. It would be considered inappropriate--although maybe if speaking to a child.

Actually, it's very nice and very endearing.

When my wife and I drove from California to the east coast, I stopped at a 7/11 in Oklahoma. The people were so friendly--it was like entering a wonderful world in which everyone was welcoming.

And this spirit is not superficial. I took a U-haul trailer into North Carolina and didn't know where to drop it off. I stopped in a small convenience store to ask directions. The woman behind the counter didn't know either, but she made 8 or 10 telephone calls in my behalf until she found out where to direct me.

50 posted on 08/02/2014 8:08:01 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Hubris and denial overwhelm Western Civilization. Nemesis and tragedy always follow.)
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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse

Put the lime in the coconut and drink it all up


51 posted on 08/02/2014 8:10:07 AM PDT by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: ladyjane
"I wish I could get through one thread at this site that doesn’t make an anti-Romney remark."

*Shrug* Romney is a diehard fan of queers and abortion. Personally I have no use for him.

52 posted on 08/02/2014 8:12:23 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: SamAdams76
when the waitress refers to me as honey

she is doing it because she hopes to get a better tip.

53 posted on 08/02/2014 8:15:38 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: SamAdams76

I had to laugh at this Jerk, even the Chinese waitress at the local Hong Kong Buffet calls me ‘Honey’ when she wants to know if I would like a refill on my ‘Sweet Tea’.


54 posted on 08/02/2014 8:18:04 AM PDT by The Working Man
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To: ladyjane

:: Congratulations. Your candidate won. Romney didn’t ::

So...
you can tell all of FR
EXACTLY WHO my candidate was??
Really?

:: Aren’t you proud, honey? ::
Honey is sweet, you ain’t.
I can only say that my “pride” does not extend to knowing you are on FR with me.
I recommend that you unsubscribe.
YMMV.


55 posted on 08/02/2014 8:21:02 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alteration: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: clamper1797

He’s not a retard. He’s just an academic (bless his heart) who needed to get an article under his name in a scholarly journal. It’s just business.


56 posted on 08/02/2014 8:24:20 AM PDT by Romulus
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

I lime being called “honey.”....I have the nurse at my regular doctor always saying Hon or Honey and find this offensive as Hell. I finally told her if you knew me you wouldn’t humiliate so me much with your familiarity. I’m extremely violent.


57 posted on 08/02/2014 8:31:23 AM PDT by Safetgiver
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To: SamAdams76

The young hipster waitress at Dos Toros calls me “sweetheart.” This doesn’t bother me because I am, in fact, a sweetheart.


58 posted on 08/02/2014 8:32:34 AM PDT by Ted Grant
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To: maine yankee
I like the South. Southern women are always so kind to this Yankee. It's too many to count the times, thinking of my well being (obviously), that a lovely Southern belle has, for no reason, offered to Bless my heart.

Now is that kindness or what??? :-)

59 posted on 08/02/2014 8:33:02 AM PDT by llevrok (Straight. Since 1950.)
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To: SamAdams76
"When the waitress refers to me as honey, she engages in alter casting, or defining a role for the other in an interaction. What remains unclear is the parameters of that role. How is she defining me? What is my identity in her eyes?"~Lunceford, Brett. ""She Just Called You Honey:" My Quandary At Waffle House."

Well Brett, as a Vermont Yankee I don't understand it any better than you, but I'll try to explain it as best I can. The waitress was a Southerner, and Southerners tend to be more friendly than is common in California and Pennsylvania. She doesn't really think you're a honey, in fact she's probably laughing at you behind her hand, because you're a dumbass.

Thats all.

60 posted on 08/02/2014 8:39:52 AM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo et mundabor, Lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor.)
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