Telescopes

Wednesday always calls for ranting, it already feels so late in the week and yet we are only half way through.

Today's rant belongs to babe, love and hun. I cannot stand it when people I don't know use them towards me, it is patronising and won't make me think any more of you. I am sure it is meant to sound affectionate but instead it instantly stops me from taking you seriously and whatever it is you are trying to say goes out of the window.

Recently I met someone for the first time and within an hour or so they thought it was acceptable to start calling me hun at the end of every sentence. I found it so very hard to like her from that point onwards because I took everything she said as being patronising rather than just through familiarity because she didn't actually know me.

Annoyingly I manage to accept it more from men I don't know than women. I don't know if it is a midlands/northern thing but it is ridiculously common and I don't think I have managed to ask a bus driver a question without it being ended in being called love. I think it might be that I used to men being a little bit sexist and using this patronising phrases but really should women be doing it to each other?

I suppose I should just look on the bright side and be glad that coming from the Black Country no one is calling me cock.

tx