When you hear the word "baby"....
08-18-2011, 10:01 PM
#51
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I always thought "baby" was a Southern thing - finding out I'm wrong!
The sweetest little lady called me, "Baby" at a drive in window the other day. Made me smile - didn't mind at all.
Around here we use it to mean the same as "Honey, "Sweetie" - that sort of thing.
My husband's grandmother was from S. Texas (where we live now), but raised her family in OK. My MIL was so insulted when her mother called her "Baby" as a child. She took it to mean she was acting like a baby and was being corrected. When I called one of my kids "baby" when he was certainly too old for that to be true she cried. Decided she had it wrong all those years - that her mother had not been insulting her - just speaking Texan instead.
So .. people are babies around here. We have two pets that my husband treats as people, but to me people are babies, pets are pets.
The sweetest little lady called me, "Baby" at a drive in window the other day. Made me smile - didn't mind at all.
Around here we use it to mean the same as "Honey, "Sweetie" - that sort of thing.
My husband's grandmother was from S. Texas (where we live now), but raised her family in OK. My MIL was so insulted when her mother called her "Baby" as a child. She took it to mean she was acting like a baby and was being corrected. When I called one of my kids "baby" when he was certainly too old for that to be true she cried. Decided she had it wrong all those years - that her mother had not been insulting her - just speaking Texan instead.
So .. people are babies around here. We have two pets that my husband treats as people, but to me people are babies, pets are pets.
08-19-2011, 01:37 AM
#52
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Cleburne, Texas, USA
Posts: 341
A baby is a little person or animal, just born, or an endearment from or to someone close to you. It burns me up to be called baby by a stranger (I am in customer service.) Some ppl don't understand or realize that it is demeaning to call a stranger baby.
08-19-2011, 03:42 AM
#53
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Location: Ohio
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Originally Posted by JanTx
I always thought "baby" was a Southern thing - finding out I'm wrong!
The sweetest little lady called me, "Baby" at a drive in window the other day. Made me smile - didn't mind at all.
Around here we use it to mean the same as "Honey, "Sweetie" - that sort of thing.
My husband's grandmother was from S. Texas (where we live now), but raised her family in OK. My MIL was so insulted when her mother called her "Baby" as a child. She took it to mean she was acting like a baby and was being corrected. When I called one of my kids "baby" when he was certainly too old for that to be true she cried. Decided she had it wrong all those years - that her mother had not been insulting her - just speaking Texan instead.
So .. people are babies around here. We have two pets that my husband treats as people, but to me people are babies, pets are pets.
The sweetest little lady called me, "Baby" at a drive in window the other day. Made me smile - didn't mind at all.
Around here we use it to mean the same as "Honey, "Sweetie" - that sort of thing.
My husband's grandmother was from S. Texas (where we live now), but raised her family in OK. My MIL was so insulted when her mother called her "Baby" as a child. She took it to mean she was acting like a baby and was being corrected. When I called one of my kids "baby" when he was certainly too old for that to be true she cried. Decided she had it wrong all those years - that her mother had not been insulting her - just speaking Texan instead.
So .. people are babies around here. We have two pets that my husband treats as people, but to me people are babies, pets are pets.
I still call the people I love honey and so does my Mom!!!And we're New Yorkers :)
Thanks for the memory!!! :D
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