There was an instance in one of my classes tonight that brought this to a head (which I will describe in a moment) but it seems that manners have slipped a bit from what I was taught as a "Southern Gentleman" growing up. There was a person that came with her friend to a law class tonight. Granted, the class is Property which can be VERY dry, especially if you have no vested interest in understanding the subject, but one should still be polite. Act somewhat interested. Don't VERY visibly roll your eyes as the professor or students talk. Refrain from leaning your head back and sighing loudly. If you can't do that, or if you as the student don't fell that your friend is mature enough to not behave in this manner, then don't bring them into class. My second instance that really bugs me and that I feel is terribly rude is people trying to get IN the elevator while others are getting OUT. I know you have been waiting to get on but... Just Freaking Wait, Please. What rude things bug you?
People who can't turn their phones off. People who don't look back to see if there is someone behidn them and hold the door for them. Or even worse, the people who squeez through the door with out touching it (after the person in front of them pushed it open) so when I reach it (I am right behind them) it slams shut on me.
OMG! I live in New York! nuf said! But I have found myself as I get older calling people on it. When I was younger I'd let it slide. But a few days ago I was walking to the subway on my way to work when four 13 or 14 year old girls waked by and one threw a paper bag of garbage on the sidewalk. With garbage can not five feet away. I lit into her! I don't think I impressed her friends though.
People who have yet to realize that it is socially unacceptable to smack your lips while eating. Consuming food with one's mouth open is indicative of extremely poor upbringing. It is low class, and frankly, is a career limiting move in a professional setting. The sooner first generation Americans learn this little nugget, the better.
I was in class the other day and at least 6 different phones went off in a span of 5 minutes and one guy was even having a brief conversation not once, but three seperate times. It was maddening.
Ahh, Property. Shoulda said "Don't disrespect the Rule Against Perpetuities, biatch. You wanna piece of me?!"
Or people whose phones ring but DON'T press the end button, thus the ENTIRE ****ing 'Save a horse ride a cowboy' or any Usher song gets played in its entirety. Or people with no damn sense of humor. Lighten the **** up.
When you're waiting on someone (like, waiting for them to exit a parking space, or waiting for them in a line), and they obviously take as much time as they want - especially if they are intentionally are taking more time because they are aware that others are waiting for them... ... I want to kill those people. -- droxford
Yeah, that sounds like a classroom management issue. I would have made a comment like, "If this class is boring you, then by all means get up and leave. Just stop disrupting my class. "
People who talk above everyone else in an open workplace environment when their just talking to the person right next to them. How loud do you have to talk if your visiting someone when there are people all around trying to work in an otherwise relatively quiet atmosphere? Some people just talk way too loud. Also, there are a few women that have these really loud, distinctive laughs and its embarrassing that you can hear them all the way across the building several cubicle rows over when they start cracking up. They will be on the phone and just start dying laughing out of nowhere.
One thing that annoys the hell out of me is going into a bathroom and seeing piss in a urinal or **** in a toilet. I understand that people might be proud of the waste that comes out of their bodies, but that doesn't mean I along with other people want to see it. I don't understand why it is so hard to flush a urinal or toilet AND MAKE SURE THAT YOUR WASTE GOES AWAY!! I don't know if you call this rude or manners but people who pull out in front of you while driving and then they go at the speed limit or slower. What makes it even worse is when they do it and there is no one behind you at all. I want to exterminate those people from this earth.
People who were born, were raised , learned English, speak the language, can speak and read it ALL here, but can't write, so they write: "a" instead of "an" - once in this thread "your" instead of "you are" - once in this thread "to" instead of "too" "would of" instead of "would have" or "would've" "their", "they're" and "there" Then they suffer from the poor excuse of this-is-a-freaking-BBS-MAN-not-grammar-class-itis. To top it all off, NON-U.S.-born people speak it and write it better than them.
I hate it. It goes from people just sticking their face too close to yours, to tailgating when you're driving, to the excrement of humanity who think it's OK to talk on a cell phone in a restaurant... often like it's from their living room sofa to someone across a room, and completely oblivious to just how rude they are being to everyone else around them. I could go on, but personal space covers a lot of territory.
