"sweetie" is not bad... i just get "sir" which throws me back a few years and without realizing it i automatically respond with "Dont call me Sir, I work for a living" but with a bad word or two thrown in, at which point i see the look of surprise on their face and think.."crap, flashbacks" ...........lolWhen a 20 something called me "Sweetie." I was flabbergasted! In my part of the world, this is usually shows patronizing affection for the young or feeble, LOL.
ouch....lol.... i spent 3 hours at the docs last week to get examined and schedule a surgery. as im sitting in this center i notice everyone is over 65 except me....it then dawns on me, "dang it, it has begun, im at the old ppls doctor...." lol.Signed up for Medicare this morning.
Oh, I didn't mean it was necessarily a bad thing, just that I used to work in healthcare with the geriatric population, and I used to wince when I heard one of my co-workers saying things like, "Just take it easy, sweetie, we will get you some water!" Or, "What do you want, sweetie?" We never, ever called each other sweetie. Or if a grandchild was visiting, they got the "sweetie" treatment too. So, I associate this with a sort of patronizing, but no harm done kind of a thing."sweetie" is not bad... i just get "sir" which throws me back a few years and without realizing it i automatically respond with "Dont call me Sir, I work for a living" but with a bad word or two thrown in, at which point i see the look of surprise on their face and think.."crap, flashbacks" ...........lol
ahh, so its a flashback thing for you too....hmmm...maybe that in itself is a realization we are old....lol...you know youre old when you are unexpectedly thrown back to another lifetimeOh, I didn't mean it was necessarily a bad thing, just that I used to work in healthcare with the geriatric population, and I used to wince when I heard one of my co-workers saying things like, "Just take it easy, sweetie, we will get you some water!" Or, "What do you want, sweetie?" We never, ever called each other sweetie. Or if a grandchild was visiting, they got the "sweetie" treatment too. So, I associate this with a sort of patronizing, but no harm done kind of a thing.