From: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org (stillpt-digest) To: stillpt-digest@smoe.org Subject: stillpt-digest V2 #132 Reply-To: stillpt@smoe.org Sender: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk stillpt-digest Saturday, June 10 2000 Volume 02 : Number 132 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: b/comments6/6 [Dori ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 16:38:05 -0400 From: Dori Subject: Re: b/comments6/6 > >For those of you who called your friends' parents (and parents' friends) >"Mr. X" and "Mrs. Y": at what age did you begin being comfortable using >their first names? In my case, about 30, about the time my friends began >being the parents of school-age children. My friend's parents are =still= "Miss Janice" and "Mr. Lincoln," and I have children of my own now. Of course, I grew up in the Deep South, where the rules of address are...complicated. I don't know as I'd ever be comfortable calling my mother's friends, the ones I knew as a child, by just their first names, with no title. - -- Dori cleindori@rica.net - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Torture first. It's better that way. Troll maxim - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ End of stillpt-digest V2 #132 *****************************