Campus manners

Speaking of manners, I was in a fairly long, first-week-of-classes line at the campus bookstore last week when the clerk waved me to the front of the line.  "You're a professor, right?  You don't have to wait in line."  Weird.  As Veronica Corningstone says to Ron Burgundy, "when in Rome" ("yes, please go on").  As was the case in Lebanon, most students call me "Sir," which sounds respectful but also kind of creepy and colonial.