to want to slap the assistant in Super Drug

[IamNotYourLove]

for calling me "My love" every other sentence?

Do you want a bag my love.
Enter your pin my love.
Do you want a bottle of water for just 28p my love.

I am not your love.

I am an intelligent ,degree educated professional woman , who wirites for the national broadsheet newspapers, mid 40s, dressed in skinny jeans, converses, nice hair and Bobbi Brown slap.

I am not an old age pensioner who needs patronising.

You, on the other hand, looked no more than 24 and needed a slap.

She was just being nice!

YABU
It's just a harmless figure of speech.
Thanks for the run down of your outfit BTW

Get over yourself, love.

Wow. She wound you up good and proper didn't she? My love.

I'm in awe of you and would never call you my love because you're just so, y'know, awesome.

Better then do you want a bag you cunt

Don't get why people get so worked up when people call them love.

Why can't someone use a term of endearment just because you are educated and wear over priced sla?. So as long as you are thick as 2 short planks it's ok to be called love?

Err, ok love

What's your job and outfit got to do with it?

slap

Remove the stick from ones arse.

Luv.

She should have noticed that you write for BROADSHEET newspapers and called you madam. Or your ladyship.

Top tip OP : move away from Wiltshire

Do old age pensioners need patronising?
YABU for that comment alone.

In the part of England I'm originally from we used to get called 'duck' or 'ducky'

Feeling homesick now!

YABU - why should a pensioner need patronising??

It's just a figure of speech.

Do you expect her to be calling you ma'am due to your pricey makeup and fashionable attire - is that where the real problem lies?

Oh do get a grip you tragic middle aged converse wearing desperado.

I am not an old age pensioner who needs patronising

Feck me, how did I miss that?

YABU and far ruder than you perceive the assistant to be.

YABU to think that having a degree and a job means you shouldn't be patronised, my love.

And to think that old age pensioners should be patronised, my love.

On the other hand, my love, I fucking hate being called darling, dear, love or whatever in shops.

On reflection, however, you should get over yourself. Maybe she thought you were a pensioner? I thought people in their 40s were when I was that age.

MY LOVE.

YABU, and nasty IMO

She was only trying to be nice

Calm down my love.

Yes it's annoying. Don't know why but "my love" is the worst endearment ever. Makes my teeth itch.

Having said that, why is it ok to patronise an OAP but not a "degree educated, professional woman who writes for a national broadsheet"? Do you hand your CV to every checkout girl you meet?! How on earth would she know how clever you are? Would she even care? Doubtful. When I was till tart I couldn't have given shit what my customers did for a living, they all got the same greeting.

Perhaps it was the run down of exactly where you bought each item of clothing and your academic and work background that led her to purposefully insult you in the most demeaning way possible.

Or, y'know, just one of them things. Perhaps you should only shop in suitably middle class, pensioner-free toiletry stores from now on?

Bit of green eyed monster there then.

Are you starting to feel old and that your youth has pasted you by?
So that is why you feel patronised by a 24 year old who is just trying to do a poorly paid job and at the same time be nice to the miserable old bags who use her till.

Are you Samantha Brick or Liz Jones .

Well you can't write for the Guardian, cos they're all, like, liberal.

Round these parts, you'd be 'me babber'. Would that suit you better?

batsintheroof I know some people who work for the Guardian, and trust me, most of them are utter cunts.