Is this rude or okay?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chewing gum is rude. Just stop doing it around other people. No need to offer either, but definitely lay off the gum.

Who are you to say chewing gum is rude? Did Emily Post make up that rule? I mean, is it rude to breath air as well?

If you don't know why chewing gum is rude then there is no way you could understand. It is common and it looks like a cow chewing its cud.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chewing gum is rude. Just stop doing it around other people. No need to offer either, but definitely lay off the gum.

Who are you to say chewing gum is rude? Did Emily Post make up that rule? I mean, is it rude to breath air as well?

If you don't know why chewing gum is rude then there is no way you could understand. It is common and it looks like a cow chewing its cud.

It's common? Really? Maybe a cow chewing cud looks elegant like a person chewing gum. Gum chewing being ride is merely your personal opinion, not the law of etiquette.

My opinion: Chewing gum is not rude.

Chewing anything with your mouth open is rude. Making smacking noises, popping, blowing little bubbles - all rude if you're older than five.

[Anonymous]

I don't know that I'd call it rude, but I certainly find public gum chewing annoying. And it rarely happens with a completely closed mouth.

[Anonymous]

LMAO! I have been in a major store for kids in Maryland where people are obnoxious more often that not. I heard this terrible poppong sound - SMACK! SMACK! SMACK!! - I turned around and laughed in this grown woman's face. I expected to see a five year old! Maybe I should have given her a SMACK! SMACK! SMACK!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

LMAO! I have been in a major store for kids in Maryland where people are obnoxious more often that not. I heard this terrible poppong sound - SMACK! SMACK! SMACK!! - I turned around and laughed in this grown woman's face. I expected to see a five year old! Maybe I should have given her a SMACK! SMACK! SMACK!

You sound like an idiot.

[Anonymous]

I know this is silly, but I always worry when someone offers me a mint that I have bad breath!

[Anonymous]

Chewing gum is uncouth. Looks awful, sounds awful, and to me is someone usually masking bad breath or a psychorepetitive habit.

[Anonymous]

OP I think you need to come back and clarify: whose mint, whose mouth, whose hand was doing the popping, and whose office was it? The original post was confusing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP I think you need to come back and clarify: whose mint, whose mouth, whose hand was doing the popping, and whose office was it? The original post was confusing.

Yes-- these are the essential questions!

[Anonymous]

I am guessing that the OP had someone in his office, popped a mint into his own mouth (without offering the colleague one) and now wonders if that was rude.

I think it is socially correct to offer your colleague one if you are taking one for yourself.

When I am at lunch with people, and they whip out the hand sanitizer, they always offer me some too, I think under the same theory.

[Anonymous]

I rarely offer a mint/candy/gum/etc...if my friend wants one when they see me getting my own, they can ask.

[Anonymous]

We all need to get a life -- me for reading this thread for 2 pages, and others for posting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know this is silly, but I always worry when someone offers me a mint that I have bad breath!

Me, too!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know this is silly, but I always worry when someone offers me a mint that I have bad breath!

This always puzzles me. Do people really not realize when they have bad breath?!!