Couldn't agree more with Jemima. Well over 20 years ago I became organist at the local parish church. One of the spinster ladies constantly addressed me in the third person and.come hell or high water, could I persuade her otherwise?
"Hello, how's Michael today?"
"Dunno, if I see him Ill ask him!"
"And how are we this morning?"
" I'm canny, but you look a bit rough round the edges".
Did the message sink home? Did it buggery!