Yes sir!

[zeke]

Ok let me start off by saying this WILL be a RANT.. My parents are from the south, V.A. area, I was brought up to have respect and manors for anyone young, old and inbetween...

Why is it these days when you say " yes sir, or no ma'am" people take offense to it, as if instead I am saying " yes you old fart, or no you old hag"

I was also a boy scout and the whole sir thing is natrual to me and my father was in the air force and my brother is in the air force so sir and ma'am are used alot. I have had people tell me in an angry kind of way " dont call me sir or ma'am" WTF!!!!!
How about I call you some other choice names them, I dont get it, these days people treat other people like trash! You can hold the door open for someone and they will just walk right in and not even say thank you. I mean how hard is it to say thank you, hell even thanks is good.. alot of people these days are rude, and they dont care. It has become the "NORM" to be rude.

Just something I was thinkin about b/c I started a new job and I was callin people sir and ma'am out of respect for them, NOT b/c they are old , one of my new employers told me to stop callin people sir, WTF! Hell I call my 6 year old daughter ma'am and my 25 year old fiance ma'am..

Has anyone else noticed this? Or was I just raised different?

[RR - Mackenzie]

Don't worry, I have too.

I will wait for five minutes opening a door, and the person will walk in without a glance towards my direction

The standards of respect has been lowered greatly.

[Elise.m]

Definitely. I heard a cashier tell a story where he called a customer "Buddy", that's just what he calls people. This guy threatened him and told him to never call him buddy again! Crazy! You would think people would know that they're just trying to do their job!

I find it rare and nice when people call me ma'am, or call my BF sir.

[llovelace]

Well I've noticed that over the past 30 or so odd years, respect / common curtesy has gone all but out the window.

[Auletto]

Being for the north east I'm used to rude people. I always find it weird traveling to places like CA or parts of the country where people start talking to you for no reason or just saying hello out of the blue.

It's kinda like culture shock coming from living in philly. Only time people on the street talk to you is when they want something from you.

[joepythons]

Ok let me start off by saying this WILL be a RANT.. My parents are from the south, V.A. area, I was brought up to have respect and manors for anyone young, old and inbetween...

Why is it these days when you say " yes sir, or no ma'am" people take offense to it, as if instead I am saying " yes you old fart, or no you old hag"

I was also a boy scout and the whole sir thing is natrual to me and my father was in the air force and my brother is in the air force so sir and ma'am are used alot. I have had people tell me in an angry kind of way " dont call me sir or ma'am" WTF!!!!!
How about I call you some other choice names them, I dont get it, these days people treat other people like trash! You can hold the door open for someone and they will just walk right in and not even say thank you. I mean how hard is it to say thank you, hell even thanks is good.. alot of people these days are rude, and they dont care. It has become the "NORM" to be rude.

Just something I was thinkin about b/c I started a new job and I was callin people sir and ma'am out of respect for them, NOT b/c they are old , one of my new employers told me to stop callin people sir, WTF! Hell I call my 6 year old daughter ma'am and my 25 year old fiance ma'am..

Has anyone else noticed this? Or was I just raised different?

I hear ya! I opened a door for a lady and she snapped at me .I wanted to slap her big butt with the door after that but decided not to .These days people are rude and do not understand someone being polite or respectful so they can open the doors themeselves from now on .

[garweft]

Your a New Yorker now, act like it.

It's what their more comfortable with. It's like if some European dude came up and started kissing your cheeks.... You'd freak a little.

In Ohio were somewhere in between. I'll acknowledge your existence with a little head nod.... but I won't actually talk to you.

[RR - Mackenzie]

Your a New Yorker now, act like it.

It's what their more comfortable with. It's like if some European dude came up and started kissing your cheeks.... You'd freak a little.

In Ohio were somewhere in between. I'll acknowledge your existence with a little head nod.... but I won't actually talk to you.

I'm in Middletown, Ohio, and I always end up talking and smiling at everyone

[Beardedragon]

Its almost a law in Georgia to say Yes sir and Yes ma'am.

[wolfy-hound]

Northeast florida here, and we southern folks understand that ya should call folks "sir" and "ma'am" and open doors for folks and hold the elevator if'n there's someone a'comin', but what do we know? We're all hicks down here.

That said, I hold doors, use Sir and Ma'am, and usually don't get fussed at about it. The only person that's corrected me about saying "Sir" was a Army Sergeant who twitched, but only because he was just in the middle of training recruits and he automatically snapped "I'm not a SIR! I'm a SERGEANT!" then looked so highly embarassed, I had to laugh while rolling around on the ground. He did apologize. I told him that it was understandable, since most of his recruits probably listen about as well as a shrubbery does.

Otherwise, people generally smile about door holding, and I get a lot of nods or "thank you"s for it.