*fans self* Oh my... I would have had a total freak out too darlin. As a military brat and southern girl calling someone by their first name when not invited to is the ultimate sin against manners (ShellB knows my love for manners lol) I would NEVER have the guts to call someone by their first name. Hell I even call my boss Mrs. Beth. I would 100% expect to be called Mrs. Rodriguez by anyone I was doing business with. The kids I taught at the daycare called me Mrs. Mandy. I could at least handle someone in the business world calling me Mrs. Amanda but just Amanda I would have complained as well.
There have only been two types of incidents that I have broken the golden rule of address someone how they ask to be addressed. One) At the daycare a child's legit name was Prince Isiah and his cousin Ya'Majesty. Isiah was not acceptable to him and I sure as hell wasn't saying Ya'Majesty like I was a fuckin subject so they were called by their last name. (Which I'm used to doing since my mom's friends all went by their last names around us since everyone was military) And now the older clientele sometimes asks to be called by their first name and it hurts too much to call one of my elders by their first name only like some kind of disrespectful brat so I compromise and call them Mr. First Name.
Fun fact: My mom met her boyfriend while they were both in the military so we all got used to calling him by his last name and now 8 years later they live together and only my mom and I call him by his first name. The rest of the family can't remember his first name half the time and the other half they don't care because to them that's his name.
There have only been two types of incidents that I have broken the golden rule of address someone how they ask to be addressed. One) At the daycare a child's legit name was Prince Isiah and his cousin Ya'Majesty. Isiah was not acceptable to him and I sure as hell wasn't saying Ya'Majesty like I was a fuckin subject so they were called by their last name. (Which I'm used to doing since my mom's friends all went by their last names around us since everyone was military) And now the older clientele sometimes asks to be called by their first name and it hurts too much to call one of my elders by their first name only like some kind of disrespectful brat so I compromise and call them Mr. First Name.
Fun fact: My mom met her boyfriend while they were both in the military so we all got used to calling him by his last name and now 8 years later they live together and only my mom and I call him by his first name. The rest of the family can't remember his first name half the time and the other half they don't care because to them that's his name.
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