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 Googled as I didn't know. Really Good

Im not aberdonian, but I thought Robert Gordon's too....

Calling a customer 'Love' is disrespectful in that it implies familiarity. I don't like it either. People say it out of habit; one that should be eliminated from workplaces. Customers should be Sir or Madam (or if no wedding ring - Miss).

Good grief, she was just being nice.

If you're not Aberdonian, you deserve to be patronised.

Perhaps my greatest fondness for Aberdeen lies in the fact that no-one EVER addresses you with a form of endearment. Apart from maybe "cunt".

RuleBritannia If someone called me "miss" I would take my custom elsewhere. And I'm not even joking.

hahahahahahahahahaha "Miss".

Not half as disrespectful as the opening post, IMO. The bigger issue is the op's sense of self-importance (and the fact that she thinks wearing the same shoes as the majority of my daughters teenage friends somehow makes her superior).

Mardy Bum more like.

Round here, women get called 'pet', women call everyone 'pet', and men call other men 'mate'. In my home town, replace 'pet' with 'love'

I do get confused when I go other places and get called 'my lover', 'queenie' or 'duck' but then I used to think 'pet' was funny...

(but then when friends visit, th are always surprised people actually say whey aye and that, so clearly up here is practically a foreign country)

Where I grew up (Portsmouth) it'd be lover, not love :)

When I call customers Sir or Madam I get 'oh don't call me that, I'm not that old'. Even when their age could be reliably measured in epochs.

When I return to work after ML I will be sure to stare blankly at all middle-aged customers with naice hair and teenagers clothes for fear of offending. Much like a zombiefied retail drone. Better, my love?

(It because it doesn't say BA(Hons) MA PGDE on my name badge doesn't mean they don't come after my name. My love.)

on page 2.... have visual image of Rommel in drag
folds up laughing

Gosh how awful , dont you have a Boots nearby sooo much classier

I hate converse.
And round here it's 'bab' which I love, my love.

What does Erchie mean? I'm Scottish and I've no idea.

YABU - for some people such endearments are like a verbal tic - they don't mean anything by it.

"Customers should be Sir or Madam (or if no wedding ring - Miss)."

Bit presumptious. I rarely wear my wedding ring but I'm very much married.

You get called "hen" here

As in "Hiya hen how are you?"

"Is that everything hen?"

"Do you need a bag, hen?"

It's not patronising it's friendly.

YABU

You sound simply lovely

Just being pedantic for a minute

Do you wear Converses or do you converse? You see, if its the latter, as your post suggests, then by conversing you have clearly encouraged said assistant to treat you in a friendly and informal manner. Ergo, its your fault.

RuleBritannia, you're obviously taking the piss.

Although in my world, assistants/waiting staff etc get bonus points, not sniffy attitude, if they call me Miss rather than Madam although I could count on one finger the number of times it's happened recently

Once in Home Bargains the girl on the till failed to refer to me as Professor.

I kicked her in the shins.

If only I hadn't been wearing my converses.

Next time I;ll be sure to wear my Jimmy Chooses.

Rather than my Hush Puppieses.