TravelerMSY

Commonly said that way in New Orleans.

DELee

They call him Señor Esteban.

David

AlanInDC

As long as they don't curse at me, I'm good.

RandomNobody

He's lightly teasing you about misspelling "surname".

DELee

Can't be too Sirius around here.

David

RandomNobody

"Just don't call me late for dinner!"

malbik

Fer sure. Now I do get vaguely annoyed at doctor's where they assume we are already on a first name basis. No Mr. No Sir. Not even Herr Doktor.

returnoftheyeti

My very independent wife, who kept her maiden name after we were married, often is called Mrs. Returnoftheyeti at hotels. She is generally over it, but addressing someone with a formality (Ms.) and a First Name can seriously reduce social faux pas.

PS - see also Clerks 2 - where Elias calls Dante “Mr. Dante” the entire movie.

Stripe

Seriously, I have noticed the same trend, especially on an AS flight Saturday evening. With every BP scanned the gate agent said "Thank you Bill", "Thank you John", etc. And the captain was "Captain Josh". And the FA addressed me by either just my first name, or "Mr <first name>". It was all ridiculous. I felt like was in first grade.

chessman

Surely you can't be serious.

DELee

I am serious. And don't call me Shirley.


David

tmorse6570

I find it to be more of a curiosity sort of thing.

I'm often referred to as Mr. Tom and it seems like only males use that way of addressing me and they are nearly always non-caucasian. Some people say it's a Southern tradition and some say it is used by the lesser educated. I just find it to be sort of humorous.

bon mot

Hun, shug, sweetie, dearie, my dear, darlin', luv, pet 🤮. It could be so much worse than Mr. Steve.

IJN Harekaze

I've found in my own experiences for this to be mainly asian staff in hotels although this never happens in the Savoy or The Ritz of course. I did look into it once and read somewhere that its because of the way they have family names first and so they think its the same here too... Would certainly explain a lot of things I suppose. That said, there is a porter and occasional doorman at the Savoy that always calls me Mr and then my first name because he knows it annoys the management to no end but he's so good at his job that he can get away with it. That and I have told them that he can call me whatever he likes because he used to be my brother in law.

As for flights, I have always been addressed by my surname by check in staff and gate agents except for the now departed flybe 2.0 which did call me by my first name at both Leeds and at Manchester

ElevatorEnthusiast

I don't know how to pronounce my last name, and I have even gotten different interpretations while in its country of origin. I was once lectured by hotel staff in Hollywood about how I was pronouncing my name wrong (gross). So, yes, I'm totally good with Mr. First Name as long as they don't shorten my first name to its common short form (which doesn't seem to happen outside of the US, thank goodness). In my opinion, it's much better and more personal than sir or heaven forbid, "sweetie."