An Open Letter:
Dear guy standing in front of me in line at Artigianos on Pender this morning:
Please, for heavens sake, stop chewing your gum with your mouth open. Not only is that truly disgusting, but that sound that you felt that you had to make constantly to go along with your annoying habit was truly aggrevating. I assure you, that smacking sound that echoed in your mouth is not attractive. It’s just gross. You aren’t cool, I assure you.
No one wants to see what colour of gum you have, or realize your amazing talent of sipping coffee while maintaining your cow-like gnawing of said gum. Gross, dude.
Didn’t the looks from your own colleagues give you enough of a hint?
Thank you in advance from someone who holds sacred her morning coffee ritual…
Yours truly,
NetChick
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Oh my god.. that is truly disgusting. Hello??? Gum after coffee you moron.
Guys like that will never change just by people looking at them. They think you’re looking because they are so cool. What it takes are a comments from a few sexy chicks – so why don’t you start the guy in the right direction by suggesting he dump the gum and just enjoy the coffee?
Ugh, one of my pet peeves too. that and wandering around with your mouth half open at all times. ugh. don’t need to see your tonsils thank-you-very-much
on the bright side, I just returned from Seattle and brought back some Vivace espresso beans. You’re going to have to come over for a cuppa coffee.
ugh..I hate that too!
When I was in Whistler with my family a few weeks ago, a guy in the hot tub was taking the gum out of his mouth swishing it in the water and putting it back in his mouth!! I shit you not. Not young either, maybe 17 years old?
barf.
beyond his basic manners – my mom used to always get after me for looking like a cow when I chewed gum because “nobody wants to see (me) chew (my) cud but gum and coffee together is gross too… how disrespectful to the baristas that are so carefully preparing the true nectar of life!
You’re too nice! You should have called him on it.
Actually, Tanya–a friend of mine , who is a bit of a extrovert, does the “chewing-gum, obnoxious slob,” routine, while he is standing in a queue for whatever reason. His intent was to clear the line up or make people uncomfortable, hoping that they will speed up the processing for each person in front of him, so he can get on with his day.
I was with him one day, last year, when he did the “routine,” and a older gentleman standing in front him turn around and started coughing–without covering his mouth. My friend suddenly stop his chewing–and told the gentleman to cover his mouth. Both stopped, looked forward and behaved themselves for the duration of their line up time.
The moral of the story is—gross cancels out gross.
My ex girlfriend used to get on my case about my chewing gum.
I thought she was over reacting.
But, then again, I thought she was over reacting when she blew up at me for looking at girls.
Gawd, I said… nearly one in every two people are girls!
I can’t have girlfriends. At least I can chew gum again.