Please when e-mailing me for the first time.....remember first impressions are important

You don't mind swallowing the jizz of some guy you met only a few minutes before, but being called "exquisite one" is offensive to you???!!!

Thanks GaG

and it took me years to adjust to the south - still haven’t actually!  I still identify with the state  listed on my birth certificate, NOT the the state which issued my current drivers license.
We should meet and discuss being  tried-and-true Yankees.  Just sayin....

I've almost completely adjusted. Its just that pet name thing. I just can't get past that one

And you operate a chain-saw?!  Damn!
If you can forget the Red-Neck theng and drop the chainsaw, I’m thinkin we’ll do just fine together🙂

Manners go a long way with a lady.

Wow. I'm born and raised here in NC. First impressions mean everything. Wether is work or hobby introduction is key. It's always a name basis on introductions or handling business.  

While, all of the others besides exquisite one would end up in my trash bin, I like latter one! But that's just me. I would reply to that one with something like "Exquisite one, wow, that's nice but you can call my Steph", and than proceed if he had all the info needed to book with me. And I'm a Carolinas lady born in the Carolinas.  

if you have a boat, I'll marry you.

Every provider Ive met calls me babe, hon, and one even called me handsome. None call me by name so I'm thinking that I should do something different. Maybe I should throw a tantrum and demand that I'm addressed by "Drew" before I hand over the envelope ... What do you think will happen?

I usually start the conversation with gorgeous or sweetheart.  For me, I'm trying to start flirting and working my way up to the home run.  Every provider I've ever spent time with has reciprocated.  Were the conversation started while at the grocery store or anywhere else, it's ma'am.  Here is different.

Uh, if the name is fake than what does it matter as long as it is civil.
If they know your real name and know you want to be addressed by it and purposely do not than Ok. Otherwise Your probably in the wrong business,
Maybe it is time to move along if something that trivial bothers you enough to post it on here.

I had seen her a few times and had fun.  I finally told “I really don’t like being called “baby.”  She wouldn’t/couldn’t stop outta habit I guess.  I stopped seeing her.
One of my quirks I guess....

Marie, have you thought about throwing some Southern belle shade their way? "Well, bless your heart, aren't you just all over the nicknames today!"

Yeah, I wasn't raised to refer the fairer sex any of the condescending names listed;  sometimes women I am friendly with call me sweetie, and I don't mind it. It is just the situation we know one another and are comfortable being around one another.  But I have always refrained from using  casual catch phrases, because you never know when you might offend someone.

Manners are not a trivial thing to some of us

Lol! that is a cute idea!

Absolutely...I'm sure everyone will stop seeing me now

I am scared of water

it would make the world a better place.   I certainly appreciate you, your manners, your enthusiasm and professionalism.  Truly you are one of a kind.

Not sure about the "class" part though Lol!

Look at the spark you lit on this boring board! For all the haters who replied, you just helped with the advertising. I'm a northern girl too, but after working in healthcare for almost ten years I expect to be called all those names. Maybe not exquisite one. My modesty prefers goddess lol

I have GOT to find a way to see Marie.

The world would be a much better place if it weren't for some people.

I always start out calling a girl by her name, since she doesn't know me from Adam. But after I've seen her a couple of times, and if we really connected, I'd start calling her by some of those pet names. I guess I'm trying to treat her as if she were an actual person.

Yes YOU do!

A helluva lot of fun. I just love you. To thy own self be true.  

I don’t mind it as someone raised in the south but most of the time people only referred to people as pet names when they  
1) don’t know what to call someone because they don’t know their name  
2) have established familiarity with someone to the point that they can call them that name

... until we really know each other my name is just fine.  
It's not offensive to me but it's a little cringey SOMETIMES.  
I tend to reserve cutesy terms for people I know pretty well.  
I'm a D.C. girl but my mom was born in SC ... I always joke about being "half Southern".

How funny it is in the ways that people vary.  
While you don't seem to like pet names,  I actually find them cute and endearing,  and find them tonne a whole hell of lot nicer than some names I've been called by some less than gentlemanly kind.  Lol!