Little Miss Annoyed.

[brdgt]

OK moms of daughters, in particular, but everyone else too. Is it just me or is calling little girls "Miss [first name]" really weird. Please correct me so I can be less cranky. Or agree with me so I can feel righteous. Whatevs.

Comments

[resurgam.livejournal.com]

I think it's definitely a class thing. I'm a northeasterner too, and I never called any adult by their first name. Always Mr./Mrs. Last Name, and real aunts and uncles only were called Aunt/Name First Name. Close family friends were Mr./Mrs. Last Name.

Christian grew up poor in Dayton. They were/are much less formal and it made me super uncomfortable at first when his parents wanted me to just call them by their first names.

[brdgt.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it started as a southern thing and other people adopted it because it seems to teach manners and sounds more classy and now just everyone uses it? I could see a great sociology paper about this...