If You Ask Me by Eleanor Roosevelt & Mary Jo Binker

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt & Mary Jo Binker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria Books

I find myself more and more exasperated with the way salespeople, taxi drivers, waitresses and others automatically address everyone as “honey,” “dear,” “sister,” and the like, and in general show no courtesy to the people they are serving. To my knowledge this does not happen in other countries. Why should it be so frequent here? (It is frequent, Mrs. Roosevelt, even though you yourself may not have met with it.)

I don’t think this kind of address is meant as a discourtesy. It is simply a manner of speech. I am always rather pleased when people call me by my first name, as they sometimes do in the streets or in the shops, because I know that as a rule it is a term of affection rather than a lack of courtesy. I myself would always speak to an older woman I did not know well as “Miss” or “Mrs.,” but I feel sure that saying “honey” or “dear” is more a habit people have fallen into than intentional rudeness. [AUGUST 1957]

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