Don't call me.....

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  • arewethereyet
    arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
    This is all kinda cracking me up. I am currently single after 30 yrs or so. We called each other everything but babe :laugh: I woulda killed for babe :tongue:

    When I stayed with my friend I she called her S/O love at least every other minute, had to ask her to stop before I threw up :embarassed:

    Started texting with a hot trainer. Nice guy, sweetheart. Every time we talked, texted and even the few times we went out it was 'babe, baby, princess' finally on the last date I said "What is my name"

    :huh: He didn't know :noway:



    :laugh: Well he knew but couldn't pronounce it :laugh: :laugh:
  • SpeSHul_SnoflEHk
    SpeSHul_SnoflEHk Posts: 6,256 Member
    ... daughter. Not fit to. The picture kept will remind me.
  • SpeSHul_SnoflEHk
    SpeSHul_SnoflEHk Posts: 6,256 Member
    My name is Amy and I hate being called 'Aim'. There are only three letters in my name, we do not need to attempt to shorten it.

    But,that's two syllables. I mght get exhausted if I had to utter the second one.
  • vtmoon
    vtmoon Posts: 3,436 Member
    At 63 it is very condescending when some very young person calls me sweetie or honey. Especially in the service world. I HATE being called Ma'am. I can totally remember the first time I was called Ma'am. It was at Taco Bell. I had just stepped in the door and the young girls behind the counter says "I can take your order Ma'am." I said "well Ma'am I have yet to decide what I want." I swear she turned green.

    My name is Shirley and I love being called by my birth name.

    Shirley in cold Oregon.

    Would you have preferred Mz. or a just "Hey you"?
  • vtmoon
    vtmoon Posts: 3,436 Member
    ... daughter. Not fit to. The picture kept will remind me.

    :laugh:
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    babe.

    I hate babe.

    Baby doesn't bother me AS much- but BF only uses it when I'm really upset typically. but don't call me babe- I hate babe.

    Our pet names are *kitten*, douchecanoe, smut and who*re and d*ckface.

    we do NOT take ourselves seriously- the overyly sappy stuff doesn't do it for me.
  • WantingNumber3
    WantingNumber3 Posts: 114
    My husband and I never liked any of the usual pet names, so we each got to pick a nickname for the other person. For 8 years now I have been called Doughnut, and he has been my Penguin. :laugh:
  • ItsCasey
    ItsCasey Posts: 4,021 Member
    To be honest I kinda dig pet names in the context of a relationship:) My problem is when they're used in a work environment. I'm in a male-dominated field and being called "hun" is so remarkably demeaning in my opinion

    Agree with this. Being a southerner, I'm used to men (even women sometimes) I don't even know calling me things like honey or sweetie or whatever. That's no big deal in an everyday context. In the office, it drives me nuts. I used to work with a man who did that. He also called all the females in the office "girls" or "skirts." He and I butted heads frequently on a variety of things. I really got under his skin because I'm about 40 years younger than he is and I have lady parts, yet I was responsible for supervising part of his work. One day, I put my foot down about something that he was doing differently than I told him to do it, and he said "I miss the days when women were content to make coffee and answer phones." As a woman, you really have to be diligent about this sort of thing, especially if you are in a supervisory role. People assume that you are a push-over because you have boobs.
  • wolverine66
    wolverine66 Posts: 3,779 Member
    No matter how happy I am, I will still dislike the term 'baby'. I'm not a baby, I'm not your baby, so don't call me that.

    I really dislike Ma'am unless it's said with an American accent (by an Aussie it just sounds condescending).

    For the trolls in this thread, bugger off.

    My mom called me "punkin." I punched her in the face repeatedly until she fell to the floor and stood over her and said "THINK YOU'D TAKE A WHOOPIN' FROM A PUMPKIN? PUMPKINS DON'T HAVE ARMS OR FIRSTS OF FURY! I'M NOT A PUMPKIN, SO DON'T CALL ME THAT! YOU GOT THAT?!?"

    i'm with you on this, pookie.
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    oh my god I love it, I melt. IT's the way to my heart. see other thread...http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1149936-best-way-to-a-woman-s-heart?hl=woman's+heart+&page=2#posts-17926238
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    To be honest I kinda dig pet names in the context of a relationship:) My problem is when they're used in a work environment. I'm in a male-dominated field and being called "hun" is so remarkably demeaning in my opinion

    Agree with this. Being a southerner, I'm used to men (even women sometimes) I don't even know calling me things like honey or sweetie or whatever. That's no big deal in an everyday context. In the office, it drives me nuts. I used to work with a man who did that. He also called all the females in the office "girls" or "skirts." He and I butted heads frequently on a variety of things. I really got under his skin because I'm about 40 years younger than he is and I have lady parts, yet I was responsible for supervising part of his work. One day, I put my foot down about something that he was doing differently than I told him to do it, and he said "I miss the days when women were content to make coffee and answer phones." As a woman, you really have to be diligent about this sort of thing, especially if you are in a supervisory role. People assume that you are a push-over because you have boobs.

    that would have set me over the edge. I worked construction for 5 years and only once did I have an issue. I can't stand that type of "well it's the way we used to do it" or "he's old school"

    that's not an excuse to treat someone differently because they are engineered differently. I am a better man than most I know- so then can go Fug themselves and I'll do the work. LOL
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    Curious how OP felt when preverbal? Seriously insulted right? Amirite?
  • latenitelucy
    latenitelucy Posts: 1,314 Member
    My name is Melissa and I hate Mel and Missy.
  • SpeSHul_SnoflEHk
    SpeSHul_SnoflEHk Posts: 6,256 Member
    oh my god I love it, I melt. IT's the way to my heart. see other thread...http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1149936-best-way-to-a-woman-s-heart?hl=woman's+heart+&page=2#posts-17926238



    Aiiigh!! I am stuck in a loop.
  • odusgolp
    odusgolp Posts: 10,477 Member
    I like to be called a special snowflake or b*tchcakes.
  • 3foldchord
    3foldchord Posts: 2,918 Member
    I can not stand when I hear parents call each other "mom/dad" ..I guess so their kids will call them mom/dad?

    Anyway, it just creeps me out. I am not my husbands mom, that is just creepy.

    (Our kids did perfectly fine calling us mom/dad without us calling each other that)

    And "baby"...I agree, it is not a term of endearment I would want my husband to use for me.
  • chivalryder
    chivalryder Posts: 4,391 Member
    Someone is obviously single.
  • yankeefan79
    yankeefan79 Posts: 7
    not so much baby, but I do call my wife babe.....seems to be ok with it ! lol
  • ChristinaOrtiz23
    ChristinaOrtiz23 Posts: 1,546 Member
    Tina!! i HATE it!!!
  • kgbenny
    kgbenny Posts: 15 Member
    My husband calls me "hon" a lot. I guess it's okay. I call him Dave.

    I used to like "sweetie" but my dad started obnoxiously bellowing that to my stepmother all the time and I lost all love for the term. I like "baby" but a friend's creepy old man boyfriend calls her that all the time and refers to her as "baby" when talking to OTHER PEOPLE so it lost its luster.

    I sometimes call people "chicken nugget". I call my pets "boo boo" and "poo poo". They don't seem to mind.
  • randomtai
    randomtai Posts: 9,003 Member
    Someone is obviously single.

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  • victoriousO
    victoriousO Posts: 63 Member
    Doll is my only pet name and it's OK....
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    oh my god I love it, I melt. IT's the way to my heart. see other thread...http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1149936-best-way-to-a-woman-s-heart?hl=woman's+heart+&page=2#posts-17926238



    Aiiigh!! I am stuck in a loop.

    That's for your fortune 500 thread. Muwahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
  • TheSwollMinister
    TheSwollMinister Posts: 246 Member
    I can think of worse things to be called...
  • Ilb320
    Ilb320 Posts: 56 Member
    Shirley.

    For the Win
  • kgbenny
    kgbenny Posts: 15 Member
    I can not stand when I hear parents call each other "mom/dad" ..I guess so their kids will call them mom/dad?

    Anyway, it just creeps me out. I am not my husbands mom, that is just creepy.

    (Our kids did perfectly fine calling us mom/dad without us calling each other that)

    And "baby"...I agree, it is not a term of endearment I would want my husband to use for me.

    Haha, this reminds me of my best friend. She told her 3-year-old son to "go get your dad" for dinner. Her son smiled sweetly and promptly screamed his dad's first name, just as my best friend would have done. It was hilarious, but I can see why she might want to start calling her husband "daddy" for a while... her kids parrot everything she says.
  • spud_chick
    spud_chick Posts: 2,640 Member
    My husband and I kind of ran with it creatively. Portmanteau words including variants on our names, language resembling the kind in George Herriman's old comic strip Krazy Kat (my favorite of those is "dollin", and always earns him a hug if he's not already getting one), various descriptives. No matter what else is going on, we do speak the same language and it's one we often forget others aren't in on.

    I don't mind that much being called baby or honey by random people, as I do live (and grew up in) the south and can tell that it's normally not meant condescendingly. But I really hate it when I'm in a bad mood and some random person (stranger or coworker) presumes to order me to "Smile!". It just makes me want to stab them in the throat. If they tack on "honey" then they're really taking their life in their hands.
  • ElikaCousland
    ElikaCousland Posts: 62 Member
    I like most pet names...but I hatehatehate darling. It makes my skin crawl. An ex-boyfriend started calling me that out of the blue one day, months after we started dating, and even after I told him I hated it he kept it up. It's seriously the worst.

    Hun or honey annoys me too, but not on the same level as darling. Ughhh.
  • _Giselle_
    _Giselle_ Posts: 68
    I'm not big on nicknames in general... definitely don't like baby. I get really annoyed when complete strangers call me hun or honey. Sweetie sounds patronising a lot of the time.
  • latewinter
    latewinter Posts: 90
    i dont mind sweetie lol reminds me of riversong from dr who every time someone calls me it sooo.... lol but i call my partner chris although i cant remember the last time we actually said hey chris or hey rachel lol we just kind of talk and hope theother is listening haha

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