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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAnyone else bothered by friends who talk with their mouths full of food?
I try to distract myself but it drives me nuts if they do it constantly through a meal. I really don't understand why people who are about to say something first put a forkful of something in their mouths and then struggle to talk without spitting or choking. Over and over.
The etiquette websites still say the same thing that they always did--"don't do this--it's rude." But I have several friends who otherwise consider themselves educated, sophisticated, etc., yet do this consistently. Why??? I guess I have to try to find something else to do with them, like go to a movie, rather than go out to eat.
47of74
(18,470 posts)Skittles
(153,174 posts)I do the mute thing on and off and chomp away.....jeez I hate when they address me and I have just taken a big bite....I SCRAMBLE to clear it all before responding
47of74
(18,470 posts)I'd have to go on mute and sneak in a quick bite every so often during these 10 to 12 hour long conference calls. By the end of those calls my brain was fried. Last year I came in early to run a conference call then my boss wanted me to stay an hour past my quitting time. Then he started bitching about my vacation hours. I was so mad if I had the financial wherewithal I would have quit right then and there.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)right next to you.
Chawers not chewers
Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)Takes a bite then decides she has something of great import to relate. Usually it comes out something like so: Mmmphh mmmph and then mmph mumble sorted out mmph. Then she gets mad when I don't reply because I didn't understand what she was saying.
What ticks me off even more though, is we'll sit through a good portion of a dinner, in near silence, having caught up while waiting for the meals to arrive. She'll watch me take a big bite and, knowing I won't speak with my mouth full and detest others doing so, ask me or say something requiring a response. Then she'll stare at me, while I try to hurry chewing and swallowing, with a posture and facial expression that scream I asked you a question. Answer me. NOW. dammit.
It just makes my blood boil. I can feel my ears and cheeks getting hot.
Man I hate that.
We've been together over 25 years. I've spoken to her about it countless times, yet I can guarantee, in all confidence, that she'll do it again within a couple days. And so on and so on.
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)Watching toddlers would REALLY bother you.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)How can such cute little beings turn into such "monsters" at lunch time? LOL
Skittles
(153,174 posts)I tell them it is gross
lindysalsagal
(20,726 posts)Are they Hobbits?
spooky3
(34,467 posts)UTUSN
(70,725 posts)Hmm, I don't know how *I* sound when I'm crunching and my crunching doesn't bother me!1