Joanne's+Revised+Pet+Peeve

BTW: the story Victoria K. read was mine

Whatever happened to table manners?

Not long back, everyone at a restaurant would be very respectful when consuming food. Nowadays, there will **always** be at least one person slurping loudly or smacking their lips. If it's just a little sound, it's fine, but after a few minutes of dealing with it, I start going crazy!

The amount of messy eaters has increased dramatically over the past few years. Everyone seems to get more and more disrespectful at the dinner table. Just a few days ago, I went to McDonalds with my cousin. We ordered some food and sat down to eat. The couple next to us kept talking with their mouth full and kept spitting food all over the place. Nobody wants to see anyone spraying chunks of their meal so I became a little temperamental. I turned around and said, "May you //please// show a little more respect to the people around you and your food?!" The girl was speechless for a moment. Then she gave me a dirty look and continued to shoot food from her mouth. Such a great visual isn't it? You are trying to eat but there appears to be bits of your neighbors food on the hamburger bun...

For the record, I, myself, ate sloppily once. I bugged myself so much that I gradually stopped. I hated dealing with myself eating so grossly so why would I want to have others doing the same thing?

I'm always hoping that maybe one time, I'll be able to have some peace when eating, or maybe have a respectful person sit next to me in a restaurant. Maybe someday there will be an instructor to teach the public about table manners, then maybe my head won't explode the next time someone slurps their soup extra loudly.