Lessee... try and picture this:
My voice sounds like it has a Noo Yawk accent thrown in with some Texanisms to thoroughly confuse the locals. ("Hay-ell, lessgeddoudaheeah, y'all".) It's high-pitched enough to confuse people who are talking to me (who don't know me) over the phone that they're speaking to a woman, and consequently address me as "ma'am". (Don't get any f*ckin' ideas -- it DOES NOT sound effeminate!
) Until I correct them.