What makes you call someone Mr. or Mrs. Ms. so and so as opposed to their first name?

@Pinkstarburst you can be respectful with a first name.

@Bluebirdsonmyshoulder Not how I was raised. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@Bluebirdsonmyshoulder Not on first meeting them you're not.

@Pinkstarburst hit ‘‘em with a ma’am or sir as well 😏

@crownedwithlaurel97 ma'am makes me feel old

@V00doo i’ve heard a lot of people hate being called ma’am lol but where pinkstarburst and i were raised if you didn’t call them ma’am or sir you’d be seen as disrespectful 😔 i remember one of my childhood friends would get in trouble if she called her parents by anything different

@crownedwithlaurel97 Aw man. I refused to call older people who weren't related aunt or uncle. I hate that.

@crownedwithlaurel97 Ma’am and sir we’re staples of my military upbringing, not just the south. What I love about the south is using Mr. and Ms. with first names. It’s a more casual respect.

@Bluebirdsonmyshoulder

HOW ?????

@Pinkstarburst One hard thing about the old South was that only some people were considered worthy of that respect in town. I remember once being with my grandmother when a young white man, trying to get her attention, called out, "hey, Auntie !" She looked at him over her glasses and said sweetly, "Ah ? And which of my sister’s children are you ?" To this day I hate being called "auntie" by anyone who isn’t my niece. And she calls me "Tante", traditional in Pop’s family.