Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Thank you Hun...


How many of you out there cringe when someone you don’t know at all calls you, Hun? Is it just me or I should say us, since Hubby feels as I do that it is too familiar and should only be used sparingly with someone you really know well enough to forget their name, kidding…like when you have a few children, really! Any-who, I prefer the more formal address with business people, title, Mrs. Miss, Ms. Mr. then last name, perhaps that is because it is how I was taught. Lower class people were portrayed in movies calling people honey or sweetie or Hun, what-have-you and so maybe that’s why I always associated those terms of too much endearment annoying us. I do believe that even some movies with street-walkers had them calling over Johns using those epithets, not that there is anything wrong with that. And Nevada knows it is fine in their book! But Hubby and I have been mostly annoyed with people in industries that you expect a bit of decorum in, like the medical profession, office workers, and even today’s service people in restaurants wanting them to act more professional. After all they are not that many diners around with 1950’s themes where I can remember waitresses talking like that, not today’s modern gender-neutral servers anyway should be trained better. At first I thought it was a southern thing, since it did appear more prevalent when we first moved down here from the northeast, over twenty-six years ago and I would find myself saying please don’t call me that and it seems I am still saying it. But now as I think back it was up north too, but when I was a youngster, back in the 1950’s and 60’s. As we all know that this area at one time took longer to catch on to things… but not for the last decade or so, we seemed with all the technology to have caught up! Fashion, music and movies all the newest and most in have been here in record speed. No one needs to live in a city to be city smart. We are all on an even playing field, at least that is what I thought, but being so backwards with the Hun thingy, still does get my goat and has lost the charm that many claim it was supposed to provoke. To me and Hubby I might add it feels rude and disrespectful, just the opposite of what it was supposed to do. Sure we watched Andy Griffith and loved the down home charms of the south and the mythical town, of Mayberry NC before moving here to Florida two and a half decades later, Aunt Bea was abuzz with shelling out those ‘Huns’ and ‘sweeties’, but that was in the 1960’s and that was then and this is now! I rest my case. On that pet peeve rant for the night, allow me to be a little bit country and little bit 2012 now listen all you sweeties and Huns, not Attila, I hope allow me to be the first to wish all of you darlings a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages and we will too! And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?! PS And for all the Sandy victims of the hurricane and the Sandy Hook school you are in our thoughts and prayers and never ever forget that! Odd how they are both called Sandy.

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