“Time and gravity will remove the bag boy problem.”
Well, that’s just it. Time and gravity have already done their work. It’s obviously pandering to refer to me as a “young lady”, especially by a teenager. Does he really believe I would be taken in by him and start giggling? I don’t really believe he’s being rude, just awkward in knowing how to follow the grocery store chain directive to make complimentary remarks to customers. However, such remarks must have at least a grain of truth and you don’t call someone perhaps thrice your age “young lady”.
Perhaps he has you confused with one of the many predator-teachers we seem to have running around these days (or maybe he’s warming up to schmooze Miss Davis from English period.)