"These papers here will be yours..." a colleague from the high school told me the other day in the staff room. I suddenly understood that "yours" meant all the colleagues in the department, not just me. Today I went to buy the checkout, which is the only place we usually interact with someone from the department store, and a girl said to me, very nicely, "Would you like a bag, sir?" It's become clear to me now that perhaps the colleague from the other day was referring exclusively to me...