I really dig "Sweetheart" but since I left the South I rarely hear it

Charlie D wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2024 11:32 am

enframed wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2024 10:54 am

ErikG wrote: A lady at a school I worked at called me "pumpkin' a few weeks ago.

I didn't mind.

Now that's just adorable.

Agreed!
Also pumpkin status strikes me as rare. Now I want on pumpkin status.

#goals

Growing up in the south you'd regularly get Hun, Sug (shoog), Sweet Pea, Darlin', and probably more. Gender non-specific too.

Hon or Love are the apex of the form for me and always make me feel GREAT. Way into this.

The best one for me aside from those is when a Middle Eastern dude calls me habibi or boss. I fucking love that so much.

A couple Palestinian friends had a great space in kzoo and had to sell it last year (to a Lebanese dude, long story), and I didn't see them for a while. When I finally ran into one of them he embraced me and said, "MY HABIBI!!! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN, BOSS?!?!"

Cloud nine up in this piece!

Some Italians I work with call me "ciccio," which I understand is a good thing.

A bus driver in Portland with purple hair called me "my doll" in what was the most Portland thing to ever happen. This is not a complaint.

Not sure. "My dear" sounds like creepy boomer dudes coming on to teenage girls though.

GuyLaCroix wrote: Sun Mar 31, 2024 10:59 am I really dig "Sweetheart" but since I left the South I rarely hear it

Tell 'em about the time you called that bartender darlin'!

I don't think I've been referred to as "My Dear". As a Southerner I have been Hun'd. I would've voted Other if I had thought about it.

Tree wrote: Tue Apr 02, 2024 8:20 am

GuyLaCroix wrote: Sun Mar 31, 2024 10:59 am I really dig "Sweetheart" but since I left the South I rarely hear it

Tell 'em about the time you called that bartender darlin'!

Oh man, I'll have to be at the desktop for that one.