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Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 8:15 pm
by CujoSR
Weeble- Ask Freak if he's ever been mistaken for a girl? :twisted:

Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 9:50 pm
by Weeble
*cough* yeah, sorry about that too *cough*

Re: Have you guys ever. . .

Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 3:10 pm
by BirdMom
VonSeegs wrote:I always seem to have problems with the little kids. Every once in a while I'll call some little kid with mullet 'princess' when in fact he's a 'buddy.' Oops.
Ya know, women have a generic solution...we can get away with calling every little kid we run into "sweetie" or "honey." Maybe the generic solution for guys would be to call the kids "squirt" or "munchkin..." Those both sound non-gender specific, plus don't sound overly girly... :wink:

Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 6:48 pm
by Max Fischer
I find that you can also use these gender neutral terms; tool, jackass, moron, loser, 'hey-you, adopted kid' and many others. It helps you avoid the awkard silences we all disdain.

great

Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 6:52 pm
by IndyBob
LOL! Thats AWESOME :D

Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2003 11:10 am
by Zazu
I like to address ambiguous guests as "Mousketeer," especially in Toontown. "Pardner" works pretty well for Frontierland, too.

Still working on something to use on Main Street that doesn't get the same reaction as "Streetwalker."

Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 2:17 am
by Guest Relations King
I've been guilty of calling women sir, but normally not the other way around.

I can remember one time when I was parked out at the tour cart, and I needed help from a female custodial CM, I accidentally called her sir. I apologized, but really didn't feel bad about it. She looked like a woman, but I was so overworked at that point, all my responses were pre-programmed.

- GRK

Re: Have you guys ever. . .

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 4:37 pm
by Tim Gaines
BirdMom wrote: Ya know, women have a generic solution...we can get away with calling every little kid we run into "sweetie" or "honey." Maybe the generic solution for guys would be to call the kids "squirt" or "munchkin..." Those both sound non-gender specific, plus don't sound overly girly... :wink:
When I worked at Honey, I would hand out those infernal 'goggles' (nothing more than cheaply mass produced plastic frames with a thin sheet of polarized film in the middle) and I would refer to every child 4 and under (or approx.) 'baby' ..you know, like off that goddamned Old Navy commercial? I figured if they could get away with it, so could I .. AND I DID, till I quit - now I call them whatever I want.

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