Originally posted by severalsnakes
No sir.
Sir!!!!! Oh boy that took me back! I haven't been called 'Sir' in more than twenty years!


When I was a lecturer at a college in the UK the new intake of fresh faced 16 year olds (teenagers start college at 16 in the UK) called everyone 'Sir' or 'Miss' like they would have done in school. It used to take them a couple of weeks to realize they were in the adult world now where such honorifics were not required and by the third week we were all usually on first name terms.