Odd accent and attitude

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I'm going to sound like a snob here. Enormously long Argos van showed up on the road this morning when there were cars everywhere. As well as the driver there was a young lad who looked about 15 though must have been older who got out to check the street as I was going out. "Alright love?" he shouted over to me.

He had the grey tracksuit tucked into socks and trainers look and a fade haircut with a plastered down fringe, and the accent was bizarre. A mix between the big fat gypsy wedding and "gangsta". Definitely not local (north Derbyshire) and nobody else I know speaks like that so where does it come from? What they watch on TV? How do accents evolve?

At 18 or so I'd never have thought about calling over to men in their 30s in the street. I had some attitude but not this. Hey at least he didn't say cheer up love I guess.

You live in north Derbyshire, so therefore close to chesterfield, Sheffield, Worksop etc and you're surprised by people wearing trackies tucked in their socks and saying alright love? 😂 that's normal round there

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I think I'd have felt he was saying "what's your complaint, I won't be having it" and the op was leaving anyway.

The accent stuff is lost on me as I wouldnt rank accents but I think in these shoes, u might have felt "cheeky brat". I'm old though. Say "morning!" or "warm for November" but "alright love" is a bit I'm in charge here love

@WeeDove exactly!

He dared to say "Alright, love?". In some parts of the country, that's simply a greeting, the same as "Hello". What a snob you must be.

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I have no idea what the op is on about cheeky teenagers daring to speak to "adults" or his hybrid accent but I'm here for it on a rainy Saturday.

You're disgustingly snobbish and unkind.

Also, I feel like you may be describing an eastern European accent.

He sounds like he's from Lancashire, my neck of the woods! Very normal to shout such salutations at randoms.

Depending on the size of van / truck it could have come from a regional depot rather than a local one. Also dependent on what you were having delivered. Over 20kg is a 2 person delivery.
I am sad and work in retail.

You got gansta from "alright love" What kind of gansta's do you know?

Wouldn't it be alright me duck ?

That's alright. OP is sad and we don't even know where they work 😂

Fair play to the lad being out working and trying to be cheerful.

Don't really see what you're after here.

Here it goes, the OP being in the wrong and defending herself anyway!
YABU and a you're a snob too! You would be hated in my area!

He was probably being sarcastic because he’d noticed the judgmental look on your miserable purse-lipped face while you were weirdly staring at a couple of people just trying to do their job.

HA!

Yes what an absolute scoundrel having a job and being friendly. O, the humanity.

You sound like a snob. Lol 😂

You spelt 'dick' wrong 😂

You don't sound like a snob, you sound like a desperate wannabe snob.

Embarrassing.

My Asda delivery driver greeted me with "G'day how's it going?" yesterday so clearly not local . I reckon I should get onto Asda immediately and inform them that all delivery drivers should only have strong Somerset accents.

Absolutely not! 'Me duck' is strictly Nottinghamshire!

Oh sorry😄

You got all that from two words?

Get a hobby.

People do say Duck in Derbyshire, I live in Derbyshire and in these times of pronoun issues calling everyone duck is mighty useful.

He is just a wannabe roadman and a polite one, response should have possibly been safe bruv.