What do your children call adults?

But heaven forbid if you call anyone "coach" in a press conference.
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It's also funny to listen to coaches talk to each other, because everybody becomes "Coach," even if they're not. I've been in a room full of high school coaches and been called "coach" more times than I can count.

 

A lot of folks I work with. Most of them are retired military, and I knew a lot of them when they were in uniform. I addressed them by their ranks then, so I use Dr./Mr./Ms./Mrs. now, unless they insist otherwise.

 

I only have one remaining aunt, who's in her mid 80s, and she is still Aunt Audrey.

I have known my best friend since fourth-grade and his parents are still Mr. and Mrs.

And there's one former coach's wife who still gets Mrs. when I see her, because that's what I've been calling her for 30 years and it would odd to call here by her first name.

 

Come to think of it, one of my son's friends refers to us and Mr. MTM and Mrs. MTM, but he has a bit of Eddie Haskell in him, so I think it's a front to make us think he's nicer than he is.

 

All of my friends called my dad "Doc."

My mom and another mom were pretty universally referred to as "Mama [First Name]."

 

One of my college roommates was a hoops assistant at a D-III school for one season before realizing that it wasn't for him and instead went to medical school. He says that the coaches that he worked with and knew (the head coach at the school was a former assistant at our college) still call him Coach. He says that he likes it better than Dr. or Doc.

 

Well, bless your heart.

"Miss Alice, is there any more fried chicken ready in the kitchen?"

 

I still call my parents' octogenarian friends "Mr." and "Mrs." even though I have known many of them for almost 50 years. Same with my old teachers. To me, wouldn't seem right to call them by their first names, though I'm sure they'd be fine with it. My dad taught and coached and I have yet to come across any of his former students or players who address him as anything other than "Mr." or "Coach." And when I got married, it was awhile -- probably a few years into the marriage -- before I was comfortable calling my father- and mother-in-law by their first names (the wife, on the other hand, used my parents' first names right off the bat).

Had a second-grade teacher in the '60s who had a hard-to-pronounce last name and said we could call him "Mr. T." I remember hearing about the other teachers and some of the parents complaining about the lack of formality.

 

Growing up in California, at school it was the requisite Mr./Mrs/Miss/Ms Lastname but at daycare it was Mr./Mrs./Miss/Ms Firstname. I think my dad and mom would introduce us to people by their last names depending on how my parents knew them.

My uncles were always Uncle Firstname, but now the courtesy title has dropped off.

 

I had a friend named Steve Piotrowski when we were younger.
We called him Pio, which his mother did not like.
Call the house and his mother would answer the phones: 'Piotrowski residence.'
'Hi, is Pio there?'
'I've told you boys, his name is not Pio; it's Stephen or Steve.'
'Sorry, Mrs. Pio, is Steve there?'

Drove her nuts.

 

As additional info, Pio's sister was super hot.