Just saw a guy who looked to be my age - around 30 - saying this into his cellphone, loudly, in the parking lot.
Made me laugh, and think of Grosse Point Blank: “I want my mom. Find my mom.”
No one over the age of ten should ever refer to their mother as their “mommy.” 
Not even if it’s their “Mommy Dearest?”
Was he serious, or was it in jest?
I don’t know, I only glanced at him. But he wasn’t smiling or anything, his face looked dead serious.
Unless they’ve just survived a near death experience. Then it’s allowed. It’s a rule.
Or their wives either. Ever. Especially if they’re the President. 
snrk The-- giggle poor guy-- titter, guffaw, snort, bwahaha, heeeeee
Shoulda gone up to him and started rubbing his back while talking baby talk to him.
I know a man in his late '50s who still refers to his mother as “Mommy.” But he’s weird anyway.
Just a quick question…in the South, many men call their fathers “Daddy” and their mothers “Mama” or “Mother”.
I call my father “Daddy” (mother is deceased).
A man referring to his mother as “Mommy” just sounds wrong but what makes “Daddy” right?
Perhaps he was mentally retarded (or whatever the latest PC term is)?
He didn’t *look *mentally retarded. He was standing next to a sweet-looking sportscar, no one else was around, he was well-put together, with a fine suit and was quite handsome. Yakking on his cell phone. Not to say mentally retarded people can’t look like that, but he just didn’t seem like it.
My SO thought he might have been asking for his kid’s mommy, but wouldn’t he have said, “Is Mommy there?” Rather than “I want my mommy.”
I could see saying something like that upon hearing news of a bothersome setback of some kind. For instance, maybe Mr. Businessguy just ran into the 23rd annoying hurdle in as many days to a remarkably bothersome but potentially profitable business transaction. Kind of an “enough is enough” utterance to address an infantile desire to throw in the towel and just seek some comfort/time away from the situation.
Or, maybe, he wanted his mommy.
My guess:
“No, really, he was out of control.”
“You’re making that up. Our son doesn’t have mother issues.”
“I swear he made a huge scene at the mall.”
“What do you mean ‘a huge scene’?”
"He sat there and screamed “I WANT MY MOMMY!”
Whoa…whoa.
Maybe he wants his mommy. What if he was discussing some Oedipus complex with his shrink? shudders
Living in Japan but speaking English within the family can lead to some rather amusing fossilizations of speech.
A few years ago I went to a Foreign Wives of Japanese convention, and in a break was sitting in the hotel lobby having coffee with a bunch of other women when an absolutely DROP DEAD gorgeous man in his late twenties wandered in and started looking around for someone.
Our conversation stopped as we all watched him, slack jawed, and one or two women made rather lustful comments. He then walked over to our group, bent down and kissed one of the older ladies there, and said “Hello Mummy.”
It was the oddest thing coming out of the mouth of this studly being… And his mum then turned to us and thanked us gleefully for our “compliments” of her son"!!
I like Ellis Dee’s take on it.
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Isn’t it a Latin/Hispanic thing to call your SO “mommie” or “poppie”?