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.

I call my co workers "hon" , "hen", "love", "darling" zhag

As they do me.

And I have a masters and work for the government. Wearing a suit.

Clearly we need a converse/bobbi brown makeover to realise our true place in society.

Not.

Do Superdrug really sell water for 28P ? BARGAIN!

I love this bit

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.

get over yourself love...

YABU stop being so miserable

'It's horrible unless you are visiting a circus, funfair or chip shop.'

Zhagzhagh, that comment just makes you sound like a raging snob.

YABU

Dont sweat the small stuff, the woman was trying to be pleasant in her own way. Surely it's the thought that counts.

Ps. Anyone else noticed we seem to be talking to ourselves ?

LadyClariceMannockConty - be realistic. You would not bat an eyelid if someone from a circus, funfair or chip shop said that to you...be honest.

I may be a "raging snob" but I'm truthful.

Zhaghzhagh, you're right on that count, but I wouldn't bat an eyelid if someone in Super Drug (sic) said it to me either. Or a secretary. Or anyone else, for that matter.

Oh, and please don't tell me to be 'honest' or 'realistic' just because I don't agree with your comment. I am not lying to myself or to you, or to anyone. I just, y'know, don't agree. It happens.

haha love that katiescarlett

how are we my lovies I have just had a conversation with my friend from yorkshire and she loved about a hundred times

LadyClarice - you are talking absolute rubbish. We all have standards. Are you really saying that you wouldn't bat an eyelid if, for example, your solicitor called you"love".

I LOVE 'hen'. Used to live in Glasgow and I miss it!

I also like the Derbyshire 'duck' as in ''ey up, duck' etc. Everyone calls everyone 'duck' ? it crosses all gender/age/class/other boundaries. It comes across as massively affectionate. Love it love it love it.

This isnt about solicitors or people you work with this is about a friendly woman in a shop and a unpleasant snob thinking being called love is beneath her what with her good degree and high powered journalist career, TBH I think this is a thread to get a rise out of people ,

Zhaghzhagh- I am butting in, in response to your question, I might be a bit surprised if my solicitor called me 'love' but he probably wouldn't. But generally I wouldn't give a shit

AltruisticvEnigma

"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."

So it's rude to have an attitude of tolerate being called but not rude to call someone a name she might not or doesn't want to be called? Oh, for the daiys when a customer of any clahss or colour or aige or anything else was called Madam. It's another form of dumbing down.

LadyClaricMannockConty - you are a fool if you think "duck" "crosses all gender/age/class/other boundaries"

Think about it.

Zhaghzhagh, I get that we don't agree, but you are persistently telling me that I'm not being 'honest' and am 'talking rubbish' and that is unnecessary and, frankly, unacceptable.

Oh, and as for the solicitor thing, pretty much what Deadsouls said (sorry to steal, Deadsouls, but you put it very well!).

*tolerating being called a name too familiar but ....

I'll start again.

Why is imperative that we are called Love if we don't want to be called that but
why can't the shop assistant learn to call someone by a 'proper' salutation (Mrs A or Miss B or Madam)

YABU & seem to have your head so far up your backside you can't even recognise some kindly soul trying to be nice to you

Um.

I don't really know what to say about the 'duck' comment, Zhaghzhagh, apart from:

As I said, in Derbyshire people of any gender/age/class can and do call each other 'duck'. Which means that it crosses boundaries. Because people of all genders/ages/classes use it. To people of all genders/ages/classes. Do you see?

They do indeed LadyClarice I live in Derbyshire and we are all of the webbed feet and waddling variety!
The men often call each other 'Duck' as well, which makes me smile!

I call all of my DS's teen friends 'sunshine'

'ey up Frankie duck! Aw' rate?

DISCLAIMER no idea how to write that last bit but hope you know what I mean!

Wow Zhag Zhag the language in your posts to LadyClarice has been breathtakingly rude. You have variously told her she's a fool, she's not thinking, she's not being honest and she's talking rubbish.

And you get a stick up your arse about being called 'love'?

Incredible.

x

The only term that does make me is 'cock' and whilst I know how it is intended, it is Just. Wrong

Oh please come back op! I would love to know what your degree educated, journalistic response would be to all these obviously inferior posters who have wiped the floor with u given their opinion. Please come back and share it with us, I wait with bated breath. What a joy it must be to know u in rl

Thanks, Quenelle . I was starting to wonder if I was imagining the things Zhag was saying to me!

Frankie, I must admit I quite like 'cock' (can see THAT being taken out of context ). Is it more often applied to men than women? And is it a West Midlands thing? I have family from that area and it gives me Black Country nostalgia, perhaps from dimly remembered childhood days or perhaps I'm imagining things