<human>: Obligatory this didn't happen today but a little while ago. 

So I work in a major retail store, usually in the self serve area, it's a pretty repetitive job so it's pretty easy to go into autopilot sometimes. It's become habit to greet customers as they enter and exit the store, usually calling male customers "mate" and occasionally "buddy". 

Anyways I was just in the middle of a quiet late shift just a couple customers around and one manly looking dude going through the self serves. As usual I went for the "see ya buddy" but my brain messed up half way through. at this stage I'd just spat out "see ya b-" and decided I would swap to "see ya mate." I have no idea in the slightest why I decided this was a good idea, but hey who not? suddenly realising that I was about to sound like a mumbling fool in front of this big dude I panicked and hit the emergency brakes on any further speech. All I said was "see ya bae." 

This guy turned and looked at me funny, I turned around and walked the other way.

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<bot>: tried to call a customer 'buddy' switch to 'mate' halfway through then panicked and stopped only calling him 'bae'