Posted by muffled on September 27, 2008, at 9:53:56
In reply to Re: how come? » muffled, posted by Geegee on September 27, 2008, at 0:39:52
Hey, glad to see you :-) Good name choice.
Sorry last post was unclear.
But I am the Mom and where we live the majority of kids call adults by their first names and I hate it!
I was brought up same as you. Even in adulthood I still felt uncomfortable calling adults by first name.
My Dad has a doctorate, but he rarely if ever used his title. he was a first name or just Mr. mostly.
He came from hardscrabble beginnings and worked hard to get his doctorate, but he also understood that others who worked just as hard didn't have titles for whatever reason.
So thats why I tend to avoid the Dr. title. Dr. Bob is not MY Dr., so he is Bob to me.
Cuz maybe I too had the smarts for a doctorate but I didn't have the mental health or money to do so.
Doesn't make me less than the guy with the title.
Doesn't mean the guy with the title doesn't got plenty of his own probs.
Just different ones.
We all got our own life path.
So I call Dr. R. Hsiung just Bob, because he is no better OR worse!!!! LOL! than me.
:-)
OK rant over!
Thanks for reminding me that my Dad is a good guy. I should visit.
This has been fun, thanks.
M
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