Don’t You Honey Me!
3 min readDec 24, 2022
Think About What You’re Actually Saying to People
When she was about 70, my mother began complaining that the grocery cashiers kept calling her sweetie and honey. It infuriated her.
“They’re just being polite,” I told her.
“Well, I don’t like it,” she said. Nothing I said could change her mind, so I just got used to hearing her complain.
