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Message:: [QUOTE="yourturntoloveit, post: 138274, member: 57"]Looks like it's time for a little lesson in "Southern (USA) ingrained courtesies of speech." The addressing of one as "sir" when thanking one for help has much more to do with the "helpfulness" of a person sharing an "answer to a question" than it has to do with the "age" of the person giving the help. I "out-age" Gatortail by decades but . . . if I walked into a store and he (at his younger age than my age) was working in that store I would address him as "sir" when I asked if he could help me find such and so in the store's inventory.  He'd get yet another "sir" addressed to him in my "thank-you" for helping me find such and such in that store.  The same would go for using the word "ma'am" to address a woman of any age (younger or older than I am) if she is being helpful. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]