To get pissed off everytime the cashier in the supermarket calls me 'Hun' when I do not know her from Adam.

[BollockBrain]

She says it to everyone, "Hi hun, how are you?" as the groceries go on the conveyor belt, "x amount please hun", "thanks hun, take care and have a lovely evening hun"

So, if you are an Mner and reading this, please stop, neither myself, nor anyone else in the queue are your 'Hun'

I could punch her, honestly I could.

Rant over.

AIBU?

Get over yourself.

I think YAB a bit U, she's only trying to be friendly, or it's something she just says out of habit.

She's only being friendly, why's it so annoying?

Yes hun.

YABVU.

She's being friendly; little point with people like you!

It is not just the one hun, it is constant. I am sure she is just being friendly, but it grates so much.

Is it really necessary to call me hun 10 times when I am just passing through her till with my bread and milk.

Maybe IABU, but I don't like it. Over familiar I say.

yes, YABU.

Oh hun, she's only being friendly hun, what's the problem, hun?

Would you rather she just mumbled the amount at the end and said nothing else? I always think its much nicer when people are friendly.

Come out of your own arse a bit, its quite nice out here...

Go to a different till then.
There are plenty of 'real' things to get upset over. Someone calling you 'hun' is not one of them

she probably doesn't even realise she's doing it

it's better than a totally silent transaction-now that does annoy me...

Everyone is called Duck or Duckie where I come from. Everyone, not just friends.
The Queen would be addressed as Duck.
I like it, and 'hun' is quite sweet too.

It is a tiny supermarket and if there are any other mners on here from my area, they will know exactly who I am talking about! She is well known for her hunniness.

Ok, well looks like AIBU so will accept that gracefully and put up or shut up

Maybe you need to shop in Waitrose instead, you wouldn't get called hun there

The man in car park booth in our Waitrose calls me 'young lady' every time I hand him my ticket -obviously well-trained to keep the customer happy as I'm hardly young at 43! (either that or he's extremely short-sighted)

Bunty - are you in Derbyshire by any chance? Think it's usually 'me duck' in Chesterfield.

OP - OK, it's irritating, but not worth getting worked up about.

She's being nice. Must be hard to do when she has so many miserable customers!

Just like someone calling you 'love' in London. We lived in Nottingham for a year and Duck or Ducky drove me mental. I understand that Queen is the chosen familiar in the place between Liverpool and Manchester whose name escapes me.

Skelmersdale (? spelling)

I know 'duck' is a northern saying which has been around for years, and 'love' as well, but where did 'hun' spring from, out of interest. I had never even heard of it until the last few years.

Oh Norbert I was also going suggest waitrose, our particular waitrose you are called madam or sir.

now waitrose, there is a shop I love. Cannot afford to do all my shopping there but do like to slip in once in a while.

I really like it when strangers use terms of endearment even though when I think about it that makes me feel pathetically starved of affection.
On the other hand a security guard once opened the door in the bank for my SIL and called her "darling" and she flew into a rage and hit him with her handbag.
She's mad though.