Well Bee, I don;t see what’s bothering you!
/ducks
I hate it when people call me by my first name: dweebhead
No, you are not by yourself. As long as I have been married, I have like to be called Mrs., unless I tell the person otherwise.
The worse thing though, is for 25 yo’s calling me honey or sweetie.
TSA == Thugs Standing Around.
"Have a nice trip, er eh, Lord Vader."
Dear Mr. Buster,
Can you be a LITTLE more specific. If they don’t know you how do they know your first name?
Is this in a work environment, social, etc.
Is there a significant age difference in the people addressing you, etc., e.g., your teenage daughter’s boyfriend calling you Jim and asking for a high-five, etc.
It does not happen to me.
I understand where you’re coming from.
I substitute teach in a local high school.
One of the most disturbing trends among young people today is that it is not unusual for them to lack respect for others and to be extremely rude.
It doesn’t bother me as much as when an adult, after I introduce them to my children as Ms./Mr. soandso, will say “Oh, they can call me _____ . (gives first name). I say, “ok, then Ms./Mr. _____ (first name). They will say “No Ms./Mr.—they can just say _____”
I will then saym “No they cannot”, and this person will argue with me. That makes me a little nuts. I’m sorry if they want to be all casual, but my children are being raised to be respectful. I wouldn’t even go with the Ms./Mr. _____, but so many people don’t even bother with last name intros anymore. But there will be a Ms./Mr. in there somewhere, dang it.
It’s a common tactic to try to trip up people with a stolen ID that haven’t bothered to learn their new “name”.
Relax....
If that’s the worst you’ve been through, consider yourself fortunate. Believe me.....
About 15 years ago I had a battle with the IRS. The clerk we were dealing with always called me Mr....... She had her name plate on her desk and I started calling her by her first name, just to pi$$ her off and put her on defense.
I hear a little K-Y can help with your butt chapping problem. ;^)
You don’t have to call me Darlin’, Darlin’. You never even call me by my name.
No, you aren’t the only one bugged about it. I dislike it intensely when grocery store clerks, tellers, nurses, doctors, telemarketers and so forth call me by my first name when, of course, their name is completely unknown to me. (I think part of it is the frustration of getting the title right: “that’s MS, buster, not Miss” and part of it is some misguided idea that we are flattered by someone knowing our name.) But I feel like my privacy is violated when someone I don’t know addresses me in public or on the phone by my first name. When I want people to know me by my first name, I will give them that name. Otherwise it’s Mrs. caseinpoint.
2nd on my list of annoyances, which must be the result of some focus group study, is when the waitresses come up to you and say "Is everything excellent"?. I mean, yeah, it's ok. But really, what are you supposed to say in return?
Some twenty year old recently started calling me by my first name, saw the displeasure on my face and asked me what I preferred to be called.
I said Ma’am.
Happens to me at work all the time. People will greet me by name in the hall and I have no idea who they are.
What’s worse is that some (males at work and male storeclerks) have started calling me “young man”. I remember that’s what they used to call the old guys.
They call me whatever the hell’s on the badge. I know I picked up the wrong one if the guard calls me “Ruby”.