Some people (like myself) - by the way they look, they way they dress, the overall way they carry themselves - just naturally command respect and deference from the hot polloi. Although I’m used to such preferential treatment, it did strike me on my last visit to a (very upscale) gentleman’s club how everyone - doorman, door girl, bouncer, DJ, manager, bartender, waitress, even the 9.5 dancer I had on lockdown - called me “sir” throughout the evening. I think it has to do with how people can instinctively sense their social betters.
Anyway, I wondered if any of you PLs have had the same experience. Probably not.
I refer to older women as Ma'am. I would expect you are getting the same treatment.