Even with my students.Lately though, many people are accusing me of being disrespectful and patronizing when I use courtesy.

@Jorge Zea You can hold off patronizing me over your 14 years experience, I have been licensed for under 2 years but I worked for my father and a license was not necessary for our business model.

@Manch Hon  you're right that SF has plenty of expensive destination restaurants, but that's not what I usually patronize.

Kim, and I aspire to be a great landlord, helping out my patrons one problem at a time.

The patrons want to hear live music, and the club owner wants to have live music, but the patron doesn't want to pay a cover charge and the owner doesn't want to pay the band so everyone thinks the band should work "for exposure".

The terminology of a group inclusive never bothered me so much as being patronized.

It's so patronizing, and sounds kind of manipulative and arrogant.Whereas, words like "teaching" or "setting boundaries" can still keep a modicum of respect about them, at least.Not to say we won't ever think of someone as stupid or unteachable lol.  

I'm not trying to be patronizing, I just don't understand.Note to the Second Amendment crowd: the Bill of Rights protects the abridgment of your rights by the State--generally both the several states and at the Federal level.

And they will just lie.Seriously, think of how you would react or any of your friends or family.And if you started asking me little quizzes about lids on my pans being fire extinguishers, I'd be seriously offended and think, "How patronizing!"

He's looking for $10,000.Funny thing is, he continued patronizing my business.