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.

Maybe it's Lucy Mangan. I wouldn't mind her being outed as the annoying knob she clearly is.

My partner and I regularly discuss whether it is her or Tim Dowling who we hate more. We've never yet reached a conclusion, since their kooky, look-at-me, I'm-so-SILLY schtick is pretty much equally grating.

I do jot wear skinny jeans, wear BB and I have not been to uni but I share your sentiments, loathe the 'love' thing, it's common innit!

I think once women get to a 'certain age' we're open to all sorts of patronising.

Chuck the 28p water on her, next time

Wow can't you call people with degrees love then?

Perhaps you could make a badge so people are aware?

Hi I have a degree and I'm grumpy!
Don't be nice to me

What are you doing shopping in Superdrugs with all the teenaged girls buying glittery Barry M eyeliners/Harmony hairdyes anyway, OP?

But sometimes autocorrect is quite apt......
OP's attitude comes across a little, er, Teutonic

(No disrespect intended to any lovely German mners, just that she sounds like a blast from the past.)

We get "loveen" here!

Harmony hairdyes and Poly perm kits.

Clearly your education hasn't taught you basic spelling and grammar, let alone any manners.

Would you like a bag you massive cunt! Nice one sp

I would love it to be Camilla Long but I don't think she's in her 40's.

That was a quick name change, canistartagainplease . I suspect you are not new to mumsnet?

I think you sound quite rude and very precious. Try living here - they call you 'my lover'.

I don't see why people think it's OK to subject strangers to endearments. Surely they should by definition be kept for those dear to you? And it's usually done by the old to the young, and by men to women ie by people who see themselves as the superior in the exchange.

So yes, very patronising.

Don't worry, she was probably just doing it out of habit and actually doesn't give a shit about you.

Well my love you should have said "Please don't call me your love. Can't you see I am wearing skinny jeans and converse and am middle aged?"

also wonders what the headline will be....

It isn't Shona whatserface is it? Rommel makeup would improve suit her.

I think the OP is really Liz Jones being economical with the truth !

And yes YABU.

I daresay if Superdrug lady had been stand-offish with OP, OP would be on here complaining that she wasn't treated with the courtesy that someone of her social/intellectual gravitas is accustomed to.

Stick to harvey Nic's bab. You know? The one where they pretend to like you as they serve you your Bobby Brown slap and then slag you off as soon as you're out of earshot?

It's normal where I live for people to call each other love. You sound like you need to relax a bit more to be honest. Are you upset she didn't realise how important you are? Perhaps next time send a memo to the shop in advance instructing mere shop girls to not make direct eye contact with you.

I suspect quite a few posters who have replied with a resounding YABU don't like being addressed as dear, love etc either. What grates, and doesn't reflect on the OP very well, is the way she seems to think she is so much superior because of her education, clothes, work etc.

And does anybody really think pensioners need to be patronised?

Oh and please get rid of the Cons. I imagine they make you look tragic rather than urbane.

It does sound like the sort of thing dear Liz would write about and then appear on Woman's Hour and This Morning to explain her reasoning or is it Katie Hopkins

To work in Superdrug you must be 24 and stupid.
If you are an intelligent ,degree educated professional woman then you cannot possibly work there.