One phrase that always sticks in my craw: referring to a married woman's former name as "Maiden"

[LibertyLover]

86. It doesn't bother me a bit

I've got other things to worry about. I didn't take my husband's name when we married, but rather kept my maiden name because where I work, I was reasonably well known and to have taken another name would have been a difficult for some people, that and I like it better than my husband's last name. He had no objections. I dislike the terms Miss and Ms. but will use Ms. because it's useful. I don't use the word Mrs. and the one time I got called "Mrs. Husband's last name" by a surgeon who had just operated on him, I didn't answer immediately because it didn't register. He was annoyed when I finally came up to the waiting room desk. I simply smiled and said I was First Name Last Name, Husband's name's wife. I saw him glancing down at the ring finger to see if I had a wedding band on - I did. So he gave me the update on my husband's condition and left. I never saw him again, but my husband told me later that he had walked back to the recovery room and told my husband he had married an interesting woman - at least that's what my husband told me .