Yeah, I was musing over the SIR thing for some time, Mess, and broke it down into approximate age categories.  The most easily indentifiable place to see this in action, is if you go to a restaurant or bar.  When you're young, say in your 20's or 30's, you are just flat out asked for your order, or referred to as "man, dude or guy".   Over 40, it depends on your server.  Some still (depending on your appearance), will just address you directly without the SIR thing, but as the grey starts creeping in, you start hearing SIR at least 50% of the time.  When I hit 50 (and climbing), the SIR thing predominated. Now, it's always, and I mean always...SIR.  

Chappaqua.....hmmm, I think I did post that a while back, but I'd be glad to do that again, on the ol' Drop.io.  I have a 2nd version you may or may not have heard with Gerald Menke playing pedal steel. God bless, ol' Gerald, he dropped me back in the mix, and it's my tune for chrissake..! Got some others that are a little more outre shall we say.....but seeing as how I seem to be approaching the finish line of this existence, I suppose there really is no time to waste, and as such, no excuse for not doing so.   Got 2 in mind in that vein.  One of which has some terrible digital distortion, but the feel is what counts. (hint: ring modulation is a wonderful device if not overused).  

Yours truly,

SIR

P.S.  This is an aside.  I was called Sir once, repeatedly and intentionally by a wonderful Art instructor of mine when I was 18.  It was at the Banff School of Fine Arts, now known as the Banff Centre.  She was a Latvian lady, named Ilda Lubane (I would love to know what happened to her) with a great accent. Introduced me to the joys of painting with Acrylic instead of oil.  She would go around watching the students, from easel to easel, and while watching my work one day, she started calling me Sir Benjamin.  "That should be your name" she told me..".it just sounds right...Sir Benjamin, Sir Benjamin" (in her Latvian accent).   She thought I looked like a SIR, she told me.   Well, apparently now I certainly do.