Update on my post:. The dental hygienist called me Miss last week at my first appointment, and when I asked her nicely to to not call me that she said "Oh, trying to stay young, are we?". With a snotty answer like that it proves there is generational hostility behind it, as far as I can see.
OK, Cue the banjo music in the background, I don't like it either being called Miss Ardith by my millennial neighbors and I told them I'm not from the South, so knock it off. The third or fourth time the other day, I was taking out my trash and said "I will hit you over the head with this...