Sadly, this isn't what happened when a woman complained to a UK Train company about the dismissive and patronising conduct of one of their Train conductors. Instead, her complaint was met with a snarky and completely tone deaf response.*
Emily Lucinda Cole tweeted a complaint to Virgin Trains East Coast that an older male Train manager dismissed her in a "patronising" way, calling her "honey."*
When virgin trains mess up and the older male Train manager in the resulting conversation dismisses you with that hideously patronising word women shudder at in contexts such as these: "honey" @virgin_trainsEC.