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Re: Service Industry Term of Endearment: Hon vs My Dear

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

Re: Service Industry Term of Endearment: Hon vs My Dear

Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2024 11:58 am
by enframed
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

Re: Service Industry Term of Endearment: Hon vs My Dear

Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2024 8:38 am
by WeStartToDrift
Growing up in the south you'd regularly get Hun, Sug (shoog), Sweet Pea, Darlin', and probably more. Gender non-specific too.

Re: Service Industry Term of Endearment: Hon vs My Dear

Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2024 11:09 am
by Isaac
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!

Re: Service Industry Term of Endearment: Hon vs My Dear

Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2024 12:13 pm
by enframed
Some Italians I work with call me "ciccio," which I understand is a good thing.

Re: Service Industry Term of Endearment: Hon vs My Dear

Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2024 8:06 pm
by joe_lmr
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.

Re: Service Industry Term of Endearment: Hon vs My Dear

Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2024 12:01 am
by ErickC
Not sure. "My dear" sounds like creepy boomer dudes coming on to teenage girls though.

Re: Service Industry Term of Endearment: Hon vs My Dear

Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2024 8:20 am
by Tree
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'!

Re: Service Industry Term of Endearment: Hon vs My Dear

Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2024 8:37 am
by RikSmits
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.

Re: Service Industry Term of Endearment: Hon vs My Dear

Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:26 am
by GuyLaCroix
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.