Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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4 November 2010
20:2378504#21
One half of my family live near Chesterfield. We were visiting when my youngest was about 3, a shop assistant said the usual local "Hello Duck" to her, to which she replied "I am NOT a duck!" and stomped off.
Guest 694- Registered: 22 Mar 2010
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4 November 2010
22:2978528#22
I find that I always get a smile when i call the gentleman i encounter 'Young gentleman' they smile, and as rightly pointed out by a nice man at the bar on Sunday night all men are young as they never grow up..
never a truer word spoken in jest!
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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5 November 2010
12:1178573#23
Ray -
Lincolnshire folk too call people 'Duck' or 'Duckie'.
As a senior citizen, I get regularly called 'young lady' by someone, which I find very comforting !
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Lincolnshire Born and Bred
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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5 November 2010
22:4478722#24
Ohhhh PLEASE come back Diana, I didn't mean it.....
Honest.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
9 November 2010
17:2379302#25
Oh perlease - it is so condescending to call a senior citizen "young lady" or young man come to that, when you know you are far from it, and plus which feeling like a dead sheep anyway. Sadly I got called sweetheart again today, but in no state to answer as pinned down by a needle in each hand and a blooming great x-ray machine four inches above my head.
It is not friendly, it IS because people cannot be bothered to use your name. I don't mind at all being called Diana, or Di, or even miserable old bat (if the cap fits) but I am not a poppet. I feel a bit like Worf in Star Trek who famously announced "I am not a merry man" when Q transported them all to Robin Hood land.
9 November 2010
17:2479303#26
Actlually, looking at my reply above, I realise I know far too much about
Star Trek!