Would you call someone hon or honey in a platonic sense?

[Anonymous]

Yes

No

[LaFemmeFatale_1]

I find it very unnatural to call strangers hun

[LaFemmeFatale_1]

Because I don’t care about them and it’s not even polite to pretend I do and call some sweet words to people I will never remember again

[LaFemmeFatale_1]

If someone calls me hun, I’d be thinking “I am not your hun, what the hell.”

Very unnatural, you might as well call me “babe”

[tremendousfern]

No because psychotic women will get bent out of shape about it and complain to HR about my misogyny and now I'm being forced to attend sexual harassment training at best - losing my job at worst.

[Drew-1990]

I honestly never do and I don't like when people call me dear, honey or anything like that if you are not close to me. I don't get upset but it's definitely in my head "I'm not your hon"

[bobalife]

Nope, I only like giving special nicknames to partners. I think it takes away the meaning if I just treat everyone the same as I would if I’m with someone special.

[IslaTheWitch]

Lol, I call my male friends honey or my dear :D

But we all know it's only for joking and bantering.

[Massageman]

Not typically, for me.

There IS this one checkout lady at a local hardware store that calls almost everyone- especially us older guys- "hon".

[RainbowMarinade]

I use “Hun,” not honey, all the time.
But not my husband. I don’t use that word for him

[PeachyPie93]

I find it seems hillbilly to call people you don't know sweet nicknames.

[BoopBoopBeep]

I'm from the south. Every woman that I speak with when I go back home calls me hon.

[Nikki1989]

I call everyone I know honey, baby, or sweetheart. It is a habit.

[MailyMartinez]

I call everyone love. And at any age too. It just comes naturally to me

[CozyCoffin]

No. However, there are people that do, even if they don't know someone, either out of habit or work.

[OddBeMe]

Good q. No, that’s strictly romantic to me. Maybe like an old black grandmother could call her Amazon delivery boy honey. Tho you know it’s not platonic.

[TheSpaceGnome]

Yes, it would be used on children or pets, in the parental/caretaker role sense.

[Phoenix98]

Given my southern upbringing on my fathers side I have used those and others.

[ChicoFromThe305]

I don't know if I'd even use it in a romantic sense ha

[Iron_Man]

Well. My girlfriend of the past told me O. J. Simpson came into the grocery store in Miami she was a cashier and said hi honey to her

[Paris13]

Anyone Hun, Hun. xxoo

[PBandJ_Nerd]

I don't ever say that.

[RebelinSteel]

I would not call anyone that in any sense

[DryGermanGuy]

The South shall rise again! Yeehaw! 😬

[Agape93]

I do all the time right hon? @BCRanger10

[BCRanger10]

There's a first time for everything 😄

[Agape93]

Lol suck my ass xD

[FunkyMonkee]

Absolutely! What's wrong with it?

[loveslongnails]

Happens every day where I live.

[OtterMan68]

No, I'm not a southern waitress

[electromagnetic]

Nope.

[BCRanger10]

I don't.

[laly520]

not really