  Today at work, I had a telephone conversation with a client. We recently met in person after talking on the phone/emailing for the past year or so.
He is definitely older than me, like probably my father's age. Today on the phone he says "hello, beautiful" Well, gee, I didn't really have a problem with that. That's fine, he's giving me a compliment, he's boosting my ego a little bit so I'll give him a discount on the changes to his site. (yeah right, nice try buddy). Maybe I should give him the benefit of the doubt, maybe he was just trying to be sweet. Near the end of the conversation, when I'm trying to wrap up what's to be done, he slips in a "thanks, honey". Honey? WTF? Again, I'm trying to give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he sees me as a daughter-ish type woman... At that point in the conversation, he had just finished telling me about his daughter's upcoming wedding. This has lead me to wonder: is this only the beginning of this type of idiosyncrasies that will occur along my career path? When are clients going to stop referring to me as "honey"? Do I really seem that young, innocent, and cute?
I mean I am 26 years of fricking age for god's sake. How many times should I let this happen before I say something to him? Then, what do I say?? Maybe I should just casually slip in a mention of the BF... Maybe I should give his account over to one of the guys. Let's see how sweet he'll be on them. ;) 
