Dear Abby: Two women were offended when I wished them a nice day as ‘ladies’ 

Dear Abby: I am a 68-year-old man who was raised to be polite to strangers. I work once a week in a small shop. One day, two women came in to look around. As they were leaving, I said, “Ladies, have a nice day.” Well! They bit my head off for calling them “ladies”! They may have been trans (I don’t think so) — but they presented themselves as women.