To ask if you get called dear or darling in shops and how old you are?

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Because I am sure this is happening more to me now that it used to - I am late 40s. And I don’t like it .

Am in London as well - not a small place where everyone knows everyone and might feel affection towards regulars...

I used to work in Woolworths (showing my age!), and we had a game where we would give each other a word before our shift; sugarplum, honeypie, pumpkin etc. And you had to call as many customers that as possible. Not relevant to this thread really, but just remembered it and it made me smile.

Doesen't really bother me, much bigger fish to fry. It is more grating if it is a younger person calling me that, than an older one.

I was called love and sweetheart the other day getting petrol. I get the rage every time and I need to start complaining every time in writing to HQ. I do not care if they get in trouble because I don't think DH has ever been called love or sweetheart whilst paying for petrol or if I get a patronising reply I shall contain about that too

There is a cheery Saturday job teenager working in my local Costa who calls everyone lady. "Hello lady, can I clear this cup?" "Good morning lady!" It makes me grin every time

In the shop in the village in Cornwall where my MIL lives they call me "my lover" or "my hen", and DH sometimes gets called "my cock"! But with a really broad "my caaaaaaaawk"

Calling someone darling is chavvy as hell
My 87, church going, god fearing, lovely aunt Phyllis and my. (Now deceased) well educated, army officers daughter MIL use ( used) darling all the time and not not remotely chavvy!
Bit of a silly generalisation!

Lots of loves / sweethearts / various other terms of endearment here in Lancashire I'm in my early 30s.

Shepherdspieisminging, don't be ridiculous.

'Alright darlin' kind of thing
That is quite different to being called 'darling'!

Bianca the same for me: I was in the cobblers a few months ago. The chap called the (male) customer in front of me 'Sir' and then called me darlin'.

I didn't have the wherewithal to complain there and then, but won't go in there again.

I find it really weird when very young men and women (late teens, early 20s) in shops call me "love" and "darling".

They're mere PUPPIES, what's with the patronising endearments?!

Having said that, I live somewhere where it's totally normal to call someone (of any age) what's literally translated as "my little girl / my little boy". When I first arrived it was hilarious to hear people in their 60s and upward being referred to like that – now I don't even blink

I rarely get called 'dear',which I'm glad about as it makes me feel really old (I'm 55). I do get called 'love','darling' and 'sweetheart' (by men AND women) which I know annoys a lot of women,but it doesn't bother me. The one I really hate,but thankfully don't encounter very often is 'Madame'. It makes me sound like an 80 year old toff! Another one I don't mind,strangely,is 'ma'am'. The man in my local convenience store always calls me this.