thanks

"hey kid, haven't talked to you in a few days....you alive?"

"please don't refer to me as 'kid'. i feel like you use it in a really condescending way and that you are talking down to me."

"sorry i didn't realize it bothered you. i call a lot of people kid and not because i think any less of them for any reason."

"whether or not you realize it, it always seems that you use it when you are treating me more as a child, or someone less intelligent than an equal. it comes out to me as really derogatory"

"i'm sorry i didn't realize hat you felt i was coming off that way. i use 'kid' as a term of endearment and not as something derogatory"

wow...thank you for showing your appreciation for my concern for you well being.