Is this rude or okay?

[Anonymous]

Is it rude to have someone in your office and in the middle of a conversation reach over into your desk or shelf (without getting up) and pop a mint into your mouth without offering the other person one? What if you share an office and the other person is your office mate?

[Anonymous]

I think it's rude.

[Anonymous]

If someone is visiting your office..yes rude. If it is an office mate who is there all the time then no, it is fine. I pop gum or a mint in my mouth all the time without offering one to the people around me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it rude to have someone in your office and in the middle of a conversation reach over into your desk or shelf (without getting up) and pop a mint into your mouth without offering the other person one? What if you share an office and the other person is your office mate?

Wait, they put it in their own mouth or into your mouth? Into their own mouth, no, not rude. If they put the mint into your mouth then it is not only rude but very weird. I would have bitten their fingers.

[Anonymous]

Someone pop a mint into YOUR mouth?

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't think anything about it. If I did, I might assume they felt they had offensive breath. I would not be offended.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If someone is visiting your office..yes rude. If it is an office mate who is there all the time then no, it is fine. I pop gum or a mint in my mouth all the time without offering one to the people around me.

It is rude because you don't eat, even a mint, in front of other people without offering them something, even a mint or a stick of gum. Chewing gum is gross and rude no matter where you are.

[Anonymous]

Whose desk is the person reaching into? His own, or yours?

OP, please clarify your question!

[Anonymous]

Jesus Christ. Of all the "rude" things people might do - really?! Who gives a shit. I wouldn't think anything of it if someone popped a mint in their mouth while talking to me and I wouldn't expect an offer.

[Anonymous]

Hold the phone. Someone reached into YOUR desk and put a mint in YOUR mouth? What to the what now?

[Anonymous]

On the contrary, I would be offended if they offered me the mint because it would come across as a fake polite and extremely passive agressive way to tell me my breath stinks.

If they reached into MY desk and popped a mint in MY mouth? that would just be jaw dropping weird but ballsy.

[Anonymous]

Not rude if it's your office mate.

[Anonymous]

Either way, it's not rude. And I nominate this as the pettiest post I've seen in a long while.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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?