Sally and Mr Stewart

[TabbyCool]

[i still always call my aunts uncles and family friends uncle aunt or mr and mrs.And I'm 30 now and married with my own family now yet i still do it. I dont use their first name and ive known these people all my life. It's called RESPECT FOR YOUR ELDERS. Something the younger generation of today seem to have forgotten all about .

Any other opinions on this?

It's not that calling older people by their first name is disrespectful, some people prefer it as it's less formal.

I do think it's a bit strange how we all have first names, but it is seen as disrespectful to call someone by that name.

Also, is it disrespectful to call people your own age by their first name? If not, why do people automatically get more respect because of their age?

I'm not disrespectul of my elders, I just think respect is a mutual thing and that younger people should be treat with the same respect that an older person would expect.

[legs75]

its called courtesy its the way i was brought up. And its the way my kids are brought up and the way SALLY is .

Bit of a storm in a teacup over how sally calls alf mr stewart methinks.

[Guevara01]

I agree with TabbyCool, everyone deserves respect. Regardless of age. Sometimes it is more personal to call people by their first names, it is not showing disrespect, in most circumstances.

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[Emmadolly]

Thanks everyone, for your comments. When i got wed 10 years ago, i bought a house across the road to my parents. So i know all my neighbours, and i still call them auntie ... or uncle ..., But i thought it was strange as Sally see's Alf as her second father figure, but nice to known what you think about it.

[ste]

It's not just out of respect though. It's just the name she knows him by.

If you had a friend you had always known as Bob, you wouldn't suddenly start calling him Jim.

[Jack Holden]

I think its quite nice that Sally calls him Mr Stewart. I guess it is just because she has always called him that.

[cass]

I agree its a respect thing when my now husband and i got together when we were fifteen and i called her mrs......... I have now been married to her son for 9 years and still call her mrs .........

[dan]

She always called Don 'Mr Fisher' too! Doesn't it hark right back to the pilot episode when she was introduced to them as Mr Stewart and Mr Fisher? Did she do it with Ailsa? I don't she has with anyone else.

[AngelRose]

Yeah, but with Fisher he was her boss/mentor for a long time to

[-Tess-]

She always called Don 'Mr Fisher' too! Doesn't it hark right back to the pilot episode when she was introduced to them as Mr Stewart and Mr Fisher? Did she do it with Ailsa? I don't she has with anyone else.

Nah, I think she called Ailsa, 'Ailse', like evryone else did.