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Feeling a bit playful, I addressed him.
My first interview, with a certain lieutenant colonel, ended poorly when I addressed him as "lieutenant".
(Rabbani liked it when I addressed him, as Americans do their former leaders, as "Mr. President").
He seemed unaware of my presence, until finally, nervously, I addressed him.
"When I addressed him for something, I could tell that he was a little bit feeling good," she recalled.
I got off to a bad start with the sheikh, a big-nosed, beefy man who wore a dish-dash and a red-and-white checked kaffiyeh headscarf, when I addressed him as "Sheikh" and said that I was pleased to meet a chief of the famous marsh Arabs of Iraq, whom I had read about when I was young.
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How should I address him?
First off, let me share that my doctor's name should be Dr. Dreamy, but decorum demands that I address him as Dr. Hurless.
I have asked him politely to stop; he laughs and says, "Okay, [old name]." I have addressed him by distortions of his own name, awfully childish and doesn't work anyway.
I always addressed him as "sir".
I never addressed the president, even when he was a candidate ― as close as we are, as boss and employee, I've never addressed him by his first name.
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