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.

Oh whyyyyyyyyyyyy hasn't the OP come back?

I want to hear some more of her glorious thoughts.

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

OK. If the op had not pissed you off would you not all all agree that the above is a tad to familiar when you are doing your job?

I am a medical secretary and I would be sacked for calling anyone "my love". My manager expects higher and more professional standards.

It's horrible unless you are visiting a circus, funfair or chip shop. There...I've said it. We all need to be appropriate and this certainly wasn't.

I leaned over someone in Tesco today to reach something and said 'excuse me' - lady moved and said 'sorry, love.' I thought of this thread.

Hahahaha
You is liz jones init?
Hahahaha
Are you ok now love?

Yes, but are you degree educated val? And were you wearing converses?

zhagh they were in Superdrug, not a medical facility.

Calm down, dear.

Bugger, wish I had more time to read the whole thread!

Please tell me that someone has referenced the Watson & Oliver sketch?

You're degree educated and your response is to slap people who annoy you? You sound like lovely person .

Zhaghzagh - stop being all reasonable and fair and stuff!

LOVE Rommel makeup- -- does it travel in Nazi staff cars and say 'for you ze war is over' when you smudge your eyeliner?

I am still laughing at this.

Pensioners don't deserve to be patronised any more or less than you do, or I do, or that lady over there who is selling copies of the Big Issue. She was probably just used to using that term. My aunts best friend calls everyone 'my lover' as she's Devonian. It doesn't mean everyone is her lover, nor does it mean she uneducated as she owns her own jewellery shop.

At the end of the day, you're coming across as snobbish and nobody likes someone who looks down on others, it's just plain rude. You're no better than me, I assure you.

On the other hand my friend and I went to the bakery the other day to get some pasties and the woman behind there kept saying 'love' to my friend. It was about 10 times in all. Here's your 15p change love, have a good day love, would you like any sauce with that love etc. It was kind of funny, considering it sounded so odd.

But we all see things differently. I agree to disagree.

P.S: Hope said Superdrug worker is on Mumsnet and comments on this :D

Awww some back OP.

They don't mean it.

PoppyWearer - yes, I referenced it a couple of pages back but wrote it down rather than linking it. Much funnier watching it on YouTube.

Zhaghzagh why is it ok in a chip shop but not any other shop? Not trying to create an argument but I genuinely don't get it - they're both service industries.

And you really wouldn't be sacked for calling someone 'my love' - you may be asked not to do it again but employers can't just sack someone for something so small, as I'm sure you know.

Good work, maresdotes. I knew someone had to have mentioned it, my love!

are degree educated writers above being called love then Op luv what a complete bore you are and TBH im not sure if what you said is real or not

good lord It was Superdrug

Why were we in Superdrug if we are so posh - slumming it were we love?

You would hate me then! I call everyone "love", it is a common figure of speech where I live, and nobody bats an eyelid!

You forgot 'head up your own arse'

YABU for saying that pensioners "need patronising".
YABU for claiming to be intelligent and degree educated and yet not being able to use basic punctuation or grammar correctly. I don't know what your (probably fictional) degree is in but my 12 year old knows how to use a comma and has done since she was about 5.
YABU for calling make-up "slap".
YABU because the shop is called "Superdrug", not "Super Drug".
YABU for assuming you are superior to the shop assistant just because "she looked no more than 24" and you are "intelligent". Because people under the age of 24 are obviously intellectually inferior.
YABU for making cunty assumptions about people who work in shops.

FWIW my MIL is a degree educated (ex) professional woman. Sometimes she even wears skinny jeans and Bobbi Brown "slap" . But obviously because she is an old age pensioner she "needs patronising". In fact, she probably needs a slap as well because she sometimes calls people "my love" or even "darling". What a cunt.

So yes, YABU. HTH. My love.

Englishgirl approx. I think you know what I am saying. We all have standards and levels of communication. We generally don't call our co-workers/colleagues or managers "love" or "petal" I don't think it's appropriate in the circumstances OP has spoken about and I think this thread has brought out the the worst in some posters.

BrummieMummie - horrid, just horrid.

Zhaghzhagh - to be fair, I think it is the OP that has bought out the 'worst' of people on this thread - her superior attitude towards the girl in Superdrug, and her implication that OAPs somehow deserve to be patronised.