Lady is the new Babe

I've heard so many people say "Lady" these past nine months to each other (and to me) that I've really started to like it. Shouldn't it be somehow offending or wrong to be called a lady at the age of 21?

I remember my Mom telling me a story once, when she went to BYU and worked at the bookstore and one woman and her 5 year-old came up to the counter and she told her son to give the money to the "lady", and my Mom flinched once the woman (not even 4 years older that my Mom) called her Lady. Wow. And that's exactly how I felt. I guess that "lady" is something you grow in to.

And since "lady" somehow have become the new "babe", I guess it ain't so bad after all.