When my hair is long, people call me "dude" or "man". When my head is buzzed it is "sir". And when I'm drunk people call me a cunt
Squares and young women definitely address me as "man" more often when my hair is long. I'm rarely called "sir," but when it happens at work, I know I'm about to deal with a stupid question or look through a box of moldy records.
Ha! Dunno if the monsieur/madam-trend exist outside Sweden but probably at least variations of it. I,ve noticed that young hip bartenders have a tendency to call their customers
monsieur and
madam wich I find highly annoying. The following scenario is typical.
Bartender with smirky smile and an overly polite voice - Good evening! How can I satisfy you best monsieur?!!
Marko - Hi. Gimmie a stor stark (ordinary tap beer)
Bartender - Splendid choice!!!
It's NOT a splendid choice, rather a boring and predictable one but I ususally just wanna get drunk on cheap beer, not spend 12 euros on an IPA that taste like shrimps and chocolate. I might be overly sensitive to these kind of matters but I require reserved bartenders who hands me the drink of my choice without an attached judegement. Got many other exemples but they are usually hard to translate, at least for me.
This past summer a bartender who looked like a mix between a surfer chick and a hipster basicly screamed "HELLO LADS FANCY SOME NICE BEERS!!!" the same second we entered the bar. It was during a really hot summer day so I asked for a Corona wich the fool behind the counter ignored, instead she wanted me to buy some kind of syrup-esque craft beer for three times the price. How fucking hard can it be to just give the costumer what they ask for?