Why would a guy call me girl, if he knows my name?

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A guy i work with, when i was grabbing coffee for a order, to get it out said "grab that coffee girl" im confused, since he knows my name and tends to say it to get my attention, and talks to me some

I think it's just an expression or figure of speech that he didn't really mean anything by

I agree with nick.

It is just an expression, girl.

Sounds rude.

Unless it's like the local pet name there? Most places have names which sound either weird or very friendly anywhere else but are just what you call people there.

You know you're really in Yorkshire when the blokes are getting called 'love'.

It is just an expression that he said, he was not trying to make you feel a certain way.

Just a slangy American way of talking. In fact, I'd say (without hearing the tone) that it was a sign of comfortable familiarity, not rudeness.


As a Northerner, I never did get used to big black women in a Southern cafeteria calling me "baby." (Which is what they called most everyone.)

^ yeah like I said, if it's the dialect or slang way to say 'love' or 'hen' or 'pal' (I'm trying to think of what the standard English version is) then it's ok.

Although conversely, then I wouldn't read anything much into it.