I was getting new tires on my commuter the other day, in ducktard land, and the manager dude kept calling me boss.
It started when the tire change dudes, techs I guess they're called, stripped my lug key after removing the keyed stud from 3/4 wheels. They had fully changed the two rear but only removed lugs from one of the front at that point.
So he comes and tells me all about it, calling me boss in virtually every sentence, and informing me the following: they can put my new, rear tires on with four studs only, leave my old right front on with 4, and that I'll have to go find another matching key for the left front and to finish the project. Or they can throw the unmounted new tires in back, refund half of the fee I payed for mounting and balancing, and I can leave that way. "It should be pretty safe with 4 studs per wheel, boss," he tells me repeatedly.
I ended up finding one at a dealership only a few miles away and came back with it. "Oh great boss," he says. "I'll put you back at the top of the list when a bay opens.". "Oh, hey boss did you get a receipt for that key? I can refund you for it boss".
Yeah, boss is irritating too and it's definitely a gas pumping, tire changing type of crowd who uses it. It doesn't bug me like being called bud or buddy though. Those are usually intentional insults. He was just trying to be personable.
