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Originally posted by cinammonkisses
Are there any adults who don't like "yes ma'am"??
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I'll say it to customers at work, but generally, I don't like to be addressed by it nor do I address anyone by it. That was a big thing when I visited my sister in the south when I was little. All her friends and their elders thought something was wrong with me when she introduced me around, they all looked at me like I was crazy. But my parents never made me, I grew up seeing it as subservience(sp?), as something only slaves or servants say (hence why it's appropriate toward customers). When my sister told me what they were expecting from me, I thought they were all nuts. That's still something that's engrained in me, even though now that I'm an adult, I know that I don't have to compromise my thinking, but I can stand to be courteous and appropriate.
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