What bad manners annoy you the most?

[Darth_Kitten]

Saying "huh?", "what's that?" (what's WHAT?) constantly. How about "excuse me?"

Littering! (no consideration for this earth and who inhabit it)

Excessive cell phone use. (goes without saying)

Brushing past somebody in a doorway,etc without having to say "excuse me please?"

eating out like a pig. Uh, I don't want to hear you across the room slurping or inhaling that.

Horking up things on the sidewalk. Ugh!


Just my mini-rant for, er, today. ;)

[TOhioLiberal]

1. chewing with mouth open...

...:puke:

[Seashell Eyes]

17. Yes. That really pisses me off.

There was a guy I liked in college who started doing that and I was so repulsed. I was thinking that it should have been one of the SAT questions.
What is the correct way to chew?
a)with your mouth closed
b)with your mouth open
c)a or b
d)a and b
e)depends on the situation

:puke:

[ThomCat]

18. Yes!

I will ask to move to another table in a restaurant if I can hear someone chewing their food.
x(

And I will avoid going out to dinner with friends who tend to eat with their mouths open. I love them dearly, but I'll see them in situations that don't involve food.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

2. Lack of an "inside voice" and people who don't say "excuse me."

Speaking of the first one, I was in a diner yesterday, working on my writing, and this one idiot sat right next to me despite every other seat being available (another pet peeve), then answered his incessantly ringing cell phone and loudly talked about a mutual friend who had his prostate removed.

Fortunately, I didn't stab him in the neck with my pen.

[Darth_Kitten]

5. that was the term I was vaguely thinking of.....

"inside voice".....I like that.

I'm thinking it as a voice one hears in one's head to guide and remind them, not as something a parent would tell a 3 year old to use. :)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

6. And the irony was the guy had at least 10 years on me.

Yet I was the mature one. :rofl:

[DarkTirade]

27. I think you misspelled 'unfortunately'.

:evilgrin:

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. Chewing gum in public, and eating with mouth open/noisily

[MysticalChicken]

9. Oh god, most annoying thing EVER. (nt)

[raccoon]

54. Snapping gum drive me nuts! Should be a capital offense. nt

[Rabrrrrrr]

60. Speaing personally, I think just plain chewing of gum should be capital offense.

There's no reason for it, except to look like a fucking moron and annoy people.

[raccoon]

61. Well, I take some meds that cause dry mouth, and chewing gum helps that.

However, in public (church for instance) I don't chew gum but use those little green candies (can't think of the name).

WHen walking for exercise I chew gum sometimes because my mouth is so dry.

[MrScorpio]

4. Arm Licking

That shit just pisses me off

[MrSlayer]

7. People who pass wind in closed spaces.

Thinking it's high comedy. They don't find it so funny when I vomit on them. An absolute lack of class and totally disgusting.

[Madrone]

45. LOL

I thought I was the only one extremely disgusted by that. Especially bad if I'm eating. :puke:

[redqueen]

8. lack of consideration in general

[MissMillie]

33. yep, that's the one

:thumbsup:

While I think "please" and "thank you" and "excuse me" and all that are fine, I'm more turned off by people who can't consider someone else's feelings.

And I am always turned off by anyone who, for ANY REASON, purposefully TRIES to piss off someone else.

[triguy46]

10. talking on cell phones in public. We really don't want to hear it.

[ruiner4u]

11. being interrupted mid sentence...

nothing annoys me more then that...

[FunkyLeprechaun]

31. Same here

Even if it's something that people think they know what's going to be next, for example:

'Did you hear about Brad Pitt.." "I know, I know."

As to stop further continuation of the sentence. That really annoys me to no end!!! I hardly ever interrupt ANYONE! X(

[rubberducky]

12. coughing and sneezing without covering thier mouth. Yuck!

[treestar]

13. Hogging a conversation

Talking on and on and on without letting others join or contribute.

[Horse with no Name]

14. Eating like a pig

Mouth open, snorting, rooting around in your food...I have gotten up and left restaurants more than once when I was with people with bad manners.

[jobycom]

15. Worrying about other people's manners is bad manners.

:)

[Darth_Kitten]

29. No, it's not.........it means one can differentiate between

useless dirty slobs and good people. :)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

16. My top three

1. Spitting on public sidewalks. When I was growing up, this was considered unutterably crude and a relic of the "bad old days" when people didn't know about sanitation, but sometime in the late 1990s, I began seeing globs all over the public sidewalks and mostly young people (almost all male) ostentatiously horking "oysters" up.

2. Talking loudly on cell phones. I work at home, and my "second office," the place where I go when I'm tired of being home all day, is a neighborhood coffeehouse with wi-fi. One day, I was trying to concentrate on a difficult translation, so I put on the earphones and began piping some classical music into my ears. However, at the next table was a man who evidently had decided to phone everyone he knew in quick succession and carry on loud conversations with them. I could hear every word over my music. He made eight phone calls in succession, talking in a booming voice about NOTHING.

3. Speaking of music, one thing that drove me insane when I lived on or near college campuses was the practice of putting one's stereo speakers on the sill of an open window, pointed outward, and cranking the stereo up as high as it will go. It's a childish, nasty, snarky, mean attitude of "You VILL listen to my choice of music. I have a RIGHT to annoy people! So what if you have to get up tomorrow morning! You should just learn to sleep through it!" (I suspect that many of these students grew up to become right-wing libertarians.)

This was especially obnoxious when it was done late at night. In one college town, I was frequently kept awake literally till 2:00 or 3:00 AM by drunken bozos broadcasting their idiotic tunes (sometimes with dueling stereos in different dorms or fraternities) to the whole town. The cops had given up, so calling them was no use.

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

41. On that 3rd point, that's not really libertarian.

The libertarian view would be way against that. They would say that you are polluting my air, so you better stop, or I'm going to sue you're ass for pollution and damages.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

43. The worst offenders had that smirky, self-satisfied attitude that I came to

associate with Libertarians in Oregon.

[Missy Vixen]

19. People who do not say "please" and "thank you".

Unbelievable to me. How hard is it to take five seconds to be polite to another person, especially if they're bringing your dinner or otherwise performing a service?

Darth Kitten, thank you for starting this thread.

Julie

[DarkTirade]

26. Don't forget 'excuse me'. :)

[Darth_Kitten]

30. You're welcome.

Somedays I just run into such bad displays of manners, etc that I feel I have to rant a bit about it.
Some times I feel I'm in the wrong city/country/planet because I feel discouraged by what I see around me. I'm not saying I'm some kind of angel, just I do "try" to be civil and respectful of others, and I don't understand the mentality of some who think of nobody but themselves.

[LeeDemWebmaster]

20. the one that gets me is

when someone chews ICE

[Starbucks Anarchist]

21. Welcome to DU, LeeDemWebmaster!

:toast:

[MissMillie]

34. why is that bad manners?

I love to chew ice.

[raccoon]

56. Bad for your teeth, too. nt

[GCP]

37. I was in a movie theater once when some woman behind me

Chewed her way through a huge bucket full of ice.
Most annoying thing ever.

[bigwillq]

42. Hello!

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

22. Pissing in plain view of people, and spitting...

These guys play baseball every weekend in the park down the street. I'm not sure where they're from; but it's evidently a place where it's socially acceptable for a guy to whip out his thing and water the fucking parking lot with his pee. I just don't go down there anymore unless there's been a good rain to wash the stench away.

Spitting gets to me, too. Excuse me sir, nobody wants to step in your drug-resistant TB strain-laden salive, ok?

[WindRavenX]

23. When people don't say "please" "thank you" while ordering drinks/food

I usually have people say " I want" or "Gimme".

Like, wtf?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

40. I hear that in NYC a lot, but I'm surprised it's in Utah, too.

[grace0418]

53. I have a coworker like that. And she has a really negative, Debbie Downer sort of voice

on top of it so it sounds even more rude. The weird part is that she's actually very nice and doesn't think that way at all, but for some reason when she orders food she either says "Gimme..." or "I'll have..." with no please, no thank you, no eye contact. I get so embarrassed being around her, and I make sure I'm extra nice to the person.

[Adsos Letter]

24. People who belch loudly at the table...

...comes to mind immediately.

[DarkTirade]

25. Stupidity on the road

because that's not just bad manners... it can KILL PEOPLE. You have every right to be stupid in your own home. You have every right to be stupid in public. But when you do it behind the wheel of a several thousand pound vehicle going 60 miles an hour, that right stops. Just as your right to swing your fist ends where the next person's nose begins, the right to be stupid ends when you're in control of a machine that can cause death and dismemberment.

[ashling]

28. "Horking" up things on the sidewalk ??????

to Hork - This must be one of those irregular verbs
:)

[Wcross]

32. Cell phone idiots trying to multitask.

I had one idiot elbow me in the back because he was walking around a store chatting and holding his elbow straight out. Do you really need to pretend you are capable of walking and talking at the same time? He was quite embarrassed when I went off on him, apparently he didn't like the idea of having the phone shoved up his ass because he retreated quite quickly.

[formerrepuke]

35. Driving around with the sound system (bass, ususally) cranked all the way up....

...its crimimally rude- and I'd gladly suffer through a lot of other kinds of rudeness if it meant never having to listen to 'boom-cars' ever again.

[Wcross]

36. I'll second that!

It is one of the rudest things you can do. If I can hear you drive by my home while I am sitting inside with the windows closed you are rude. If you need it that loud you can wear headphones. I know it is against the law to wear them while driving but it isn't as if you are going to hear emergency sirens with the stereo blasting either.

[Mad_Dem_X]

58. Hell yes!

Some of them have those damn things up so loud *my* car windows rattle. How can they enjoy the music that way - it's all vibrations! :shrug:

[dembotoz]

38. people voting republican

total disrespect for anyone around them
SHOOT EM I SAY SHOOT EM

[Celeborn Skywalker]

39. Hmm...

I hate it when people lick their fingers clean in public. It seriously grosses me out. Smacking and slurping loudly when eating is also a big no-no.

[pippin]

44. Text Messaging Addicts

People who can't seem to tear themselves away from their cell phones for more than five minutes. I have become aware of people who constantly flip open their phones right in the middle of whatever is happening--dinners, parties, conversations--who anxiously search for texted messages from people who are somewhere else. Why do they bother to be with people who are present when they clearly want to to be somewhere else? 99% of the time the much awaited text messages are not urgent but rather trivial nonsense.

[BlueIris]

46. People who ask you rude (ie; any) questions about your finances/money in casual conversation

(as in, when it's not required as part of banking, legal or medical transactions). That's just plain tactless if you ask me.

[NashVegas]

47. Unprofessional Office Behavior

I can handle most social faux pas without getting too irritated, but in the office it's a whole different matter.

[begin_within]

48. Strangers who shout or talk loudly right next to you, or behind you in a line

Last week I was waiting in a line and two Asian guys right behind me were having a conversation in Chinese or Korean or something, and apparently didn't realize that I have ears too, and my ears are only about 18 inches in front of their mouths. They were talking at a volume only necessary if you are on the other side of a wall from the listener, or are in the cone of silence on Get Smart. I looked at them a couple of times to remind them that I exist, but that had no effect. I finally put fingers in both of my ears, hoping that they would get the hint, but that still made no difference. Fortunately it was only 4 or 5 minutes of this.

The other day, we were walking up a sidewalk near the beach, and an overweight woman walked past us with her friend, and the daughter who looked to be 6 or 7 was running ahead of them, excited to get to the sand. She wasn't running into the street or anything, she merely got about 15 to 20 feet ahead of the mother. Right at the moment the overweight woman passed me, she shouted at the top of her lungs, "Virginia! Wait!" and the force of the sound practically knocked me off balance. Did she not realize I was there? A second ago I was walking right towards her on the same sidewalk. How could she not see me and realize that I was right there to hear her scream?

[MorningGlow]

49. Flicking cigarette butts out the car window

Where in the world do they think that thing is going to go? It sure doesn't biodegrade, judging by how many end up mashed against the curb.

Also people who dump the contents of their ashtrays in parking lots. :wtf:

A close second, or maybe a tie, is people who crack their gum. AUGH!!

[grace0418]

50. People who don't say thank you when you help them out. I've held doors for women

who took several minutes to get their double-wide stroller and spastic toddler into a store and they don't even *glance* at me much less say thanks. I know they're frazzled and all (which is why I held the door open for them in the first place) but good grief.

[grace0418]

51. delete

wrong place

[MorningGlow]

55. People who don't hold the door for other people

Not just men for women--anybody for anybody. It's common courtesy. I love it when a little kid holds the door for me--parents are teaching him/her right. On the other hand, I've had a door swing shut on me (sometimes when I have toddler in tow) and the person in front of me is a hale and hearty twentysomething male who should know better.

[grace0418]

52. People who are rude and condescending to waitstaff or retail clerks. That is one of

my number one gripes. I worked in retail for many years and know how hard it can be, for so little pay. Whenever I see someone doing that I truly want to punch them in the face. I have a brother-in-law who is like that and it's just one of the many reasons I intensely dislike him.

[raccoon]

59. That's a litmus test of a person's character, I believe.

If somebody does that to clerks/waitstaff, one day they'll dish it out to YOU.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

63. Definitely agree.

[Mad_Dem_X]

57. "Horking up things on the sidewalk"

OMFG, that makes me sick to my stomach. Why do people do that? BLECH!

[Rambis]

62. Yep

I have several friends that I won't go out to eat with because they smack with each bite. It seems to me it takes a shit load of effort to make the sounds that come out of their mouths.

[Left Is Write]

64. There are far too many for me to list at this lazy point.

[deadparrot]

65. A small one, and perhaps it's because I work at a theatre,

but it annoys me to no end when people stand up and rush out of the theatre before or during curtain calls.