Manners pet peeve's

[Cindiloohoo]

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My DD is THE world's worst at this...she's 12, and I stay on her ALL the time.

 

[WriterofWords]

GUM SNAPPING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AGHAGHAHGHAGHAGHAHGA!!!!! I was in the Wal Mart crafts dept. and there was a woman at least 40 years old chewing gum and just snapping it with every cow-like chomp!! How do they do that? How do they get that gum to just snap snap snap snap snap over and over again in their wide open, cavernous, nasty, mouths???? And why??? Why do we have to be subjected to it?? This is one of the things that will just push my buttons!
I went to a baseball game with a guy who sat next to me, leaned over and put his arm on my shoulders and proceeded to chew his gum loudly and pop it in my ear. I sat up, leaned away, tried to ignore it and finally very politely asked him to please chew his gum quietly with his mouth closed. The next day he picked me up to go out to dinner, I walked out, we got in his truck and we sat there a minute, and he then told me he thought I was being rather controlling by "telling" him how to chew his very gum! I just looked at him, opened the door, went back through my gate, locked it and never answered another call from the gum-snapping, rude jerk!

 

[Sugar Sand Farm]

The one I can't stomach is someone blowing their nose at the table. We would have been thrown out of the room growing up. My kids were raised that way as well. They will stop eating and push their plates away if someone does it around them.

 

[Tala]

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Well I can kindof understand someone at work chomping the gum. Now on a date or at dinner that's different.
I do it when I drive (for work) but then I'm alone in the car so who cares. There are lots of causes including but not limited to: STRESS, hunger, needing a smoke (maybe they are quitting?), something stuck in your teeth and you are stuck there at work without a toothbrush/floss, etc.
Maybe a combination of all three. I know for me either it's when I have something like beef jerky stuck in a back tooth, or else when I am stressed out both physically and mentally and I really need a break to eat but I can't get a break. All that stress has go to come out somewhere.

I mean you were talking about someone that worked at WalMart. The stress level has got to be really high.

 

[WriterofWords]

No this was a shopper. But stress or not, chew your gum with your mouth shut. There is no need to impose your gum snapping on me or anyone else. I don't mind people chewing gum at all, when they keep it to themselves.

 

[Justino]

Chewing with your mouth open drives me INSANE omg

 

[ranchhand]

Justino, that reminded me! The cooking shows on the Food Network? Horrible watching the chef or cook take a huge bite of their own food and then keep talking.
Paula Deen, bless her heart, is one of the worst! She will take a huge bite and have some still hanging while she talks. She may be southern but no one ever taught her any manners!

 

[herefordlovinglady]

Gum popping gets my on my last nerve every time. My boss gets wound up some time and I think there it a fireworks display going on in her office.

I was raised yes/no sire, yes/no ma'am. Until you were a certain age you addressed your elders as Mr. Smith/Mrs. Smith. When you reached that golden age you could call them by their first name. My DH had a hard time understanding and thought I was very disrespectful when I did not call his mother/father -- Ms. Diane or Mr. Henry. And the elderly customers/breeders we deal with when I call them by just their first name without using Ms. Or Mr. in front of it. I was not raised that way. To me it wasn't a sign of disrespect unless you said Hey You

Or yep/yea

instead of yes

 

[gudrin]

Letting kids run wild in restaurants or other places in which they really shouldn't is one of mine. Two examples:
I was out to eat with a friend at a local bar and grill. Very good food there for a good price, and generally a good ambiance as well. While we were there, a family with three kids of about 10, 8, and 6 were sitting behind us. They let those kids run around like hellions! They would run past our table, they were crawling across the floor, they almost knocked over people on the ramp up to the main dining area. I actually looked at my friend and said, "Reign in your kids!" (Is it reign or rein?) I said it loudly and know my voice carried. The family left soon after, thankfully. I commented to my friend that my three year old doesn't even do that! She may be up and wandering around a little if we get a little too long with conversation, but usually someone goes with her.

The other example was at the doctor's office. My daughter needed X-rays yesterday, so we were in the lab waiting room. Another mother came in with her son and daughter. Her son was a holy terror. He looked to be about two or three years old. He was running around, trying to get in doors where only hospital personnel are allowed, trying to get behind the desks where the admitting people were, running up to the fish and saying, "BOO!" at the top of his lungs. There were elderly people around. If he had run into any of them...And the mother just said, in a quiet voice, "No, honey, don't do that. Come back here."

Uh huh, any kid is going to listen to that. It was bad enough that my daughter said, "He's naughty, isn't he mom?" Once my daughter and husband went back for her X-rays, I sat behind a newspaper so I didn't have to witness it too much. I know that sometimes people get their hands full, but I overheard her tell a friend that was there with her own kids that she opted to not have him stay home with his dad today, even though he could have!

The most I let her get away with there is walking to the children's table to get a book or two and coming right back. And she says excuse me when she bumps into someone or needs around someone!

 

[sourland]

I was raised to treat others with respect. My parents instilled this with words and a proper example. I don't see parents doing this with their children today. This age of entitlement and immediate gratification fosters unmannerly behavior. I have always opened doors for others and helped women with their coats in social situations. Once in a restaurant after I helped my wife remove her coat, some idiot asked me "What are you doing? Are you trying to make the rest of us look bad?" I replied, "No, you do a fine job of that yourself." My pet peeve-people who go through life as if their actions have no impact on others! Think I'll become a hermit.