I've never actually had the reaction time to process that and ask why anyone would think that was appropriate to say in a professional setting but hey I did today~

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So this was a guy who looked like the kind of lawyer who has his face on a bus ad. He has this smug smile that reveals he does not understand what human emotion is but he expects it to work for him anyway. He tries to maintain the smile and just sputters, "Well. Uh. "Sweetie" withdrawn, then. Sorry." I just say, "Good" and go on with looking over his order

while he keeps talking and saying some nonsense like "I grew up with sisters so I'm a little more traditional" like that is a sentence that makes sense.

thats something ive always wished i could do--reduce a person to sputtering with a retort

hah thanks, honestly this was much less a humblebrag about my Sick Burn (TM) than a "thank goodness I had time to rehearse in the bathroom"

.....sweetie