Fem voice: Being called Ma'am on phone

[shawnsheila]

So today I was calling around for some pancetta at various local grocery chains (which none seem to have) and of the 5 stores I called, 3 people called me ma'am. Now I have practiced my fem voice when I work from home but I wasn't particularly trying to speak with it either. I am guessing the practice has worked (I have never had a deep male voice to begin with, but I also do not sound very feminine when talking normally as well) I was both thrilled and surprised that 3 people called me ma'am on the phone. I am a part timer CDer and am happy being a genetic male but when I do go en femme I try and be as female as possible, voice included.

Have any of you gals had that happen you and how did you react?

[Miss Maxine]

Happens to me all the time. Everyone always thinks I'm a woman, even when I'm not trying. Guess I'm just lucky, that way. My girlfriend sometimes asks me to talk to people that she doesn't want to talk to. I can easily masquerade as her, over the phone.

[Ashley_Marie]

This has happened to me a few times over the years, and this was back before I actually started to CD. I remember back then it used to bug me when someone said ma'am. Now if someone called me ma'am I doubt I would bat an eye at it, might even look at it as a compliment.

[ArleneRaquel]

When someone calls me Ma'am I get goosebumps all over. :)

[Cheryl T]

One can only dream....

[JohnH]

That is guaranteed to never happen to me unless I make a deliberate effort to sound like a woman since I sound something like Joe Friday of Dragnet when I talk. Everybody's different.

Johanna

[stacycoral]

I have had it done a couple of times, i just so on talking until and correct it, and i tell them no big deal. I have a daughter that sometimes comes home and call me mom and i am not dressed that way, she speaks before she thinks.

[Michelle 2]

Since becoming a member of this forum and learning from the other members here, I decided to practice with my female voice. Someone once educated me to the fact that the voice is a instrument and in order to play it well you must practice. I have practiced for approximately seven months now and have found a comfortable pitch on the scale at SO. I have also recently started speaking to certain stores I call in that pitch and was surprised when the person I was speaking to called me Maam. When I hang up from the conversation I smile and say way to go girl you can do it. It is alot of fun and another feather in my headdress to improve my presentation.

Michelle