Do you still call your old teachers "Mr" and "Mrs"?

[StormHawk42]

This probably applies more to people who grew up in small towns. If I ever go home and go to a high school event or something, I'll run into some old teachers and coaches and always call them Mr, Mrs, or Coach even though I've been out of high school for several years. One of them told me jokingly, you know my name is "______ right"?

Does anyone else still do this? I've always seen it as a respect thing, as well as just an old habit.

 

[jamesvanderwulf]

Yes Father, no Sister. What are you doing with that.................. ruler.........................ow.

 

[bdg8]

Actually yes. And sometimes still call former coaches "coach "

 

[poophawk]

This probably applies more to people who grew up in small towns. If I ever go home and go to a high school event or something, I'll run into some old teachers and coaches and always call them Mr, Mrs, or Coach even though I've been out of high school for several years. One of them told me jokingly, you know my name is "______ right"?

Does anyone else still do this? I've always seen it as a respect thing, as well as just an old habit.

I live across the street from my old high school math teacher and I call him Mr. xxxx. He always tells me to use his first name but I can't do it. He will always be Mr. xxxx to me.

 

[2bagger22]

Always. I see my old teachers a fair amount and I would feel odd calling them by their first names.

 

[naturalmwa]

Actually yes. And sometimes still call former coaches "coach "

This is me too, but in my case it's less about respect than habit and my inability to remember names.

 

[Funky Bunch]

Only the ones I haven't slept with

 

[The Tradition]

Good lord, if I never saw any of my former teachers again, it would be too soon. Wack jobs, one and all.

 

[jellyfish10]

I live across the street from my old high school math teacher and I call him Mr. xxxx. He always tells me to use his first name but I can't do it. He will always be Mr. xxxx to me.

How is that pronounced?