I’m sorry, but eating is a both a personal and enjoyable event. It warms my heart to see someone enjoying it. Perhaps if you paid more attention to your meal and less to others it wouldn’t bother you so much.
So it doesn’t irritate you at all when someone is making a disproportionate amount of noise to the food they are eating? And do you also condone obnoxious eating in a quiet office?
It’s one thing to make crunching sounds when eating popcorn in front of the television, or even make a bit of noise while eating chicken wings in a noisy bar with friends, but it’s quite another to slurp your soup or smack your lips when you are in a halfway decent restaurant or eating at your desk at work.
Honestly, if I’m in the company of someone who is eating like a pig, I’m really going to think less of them. And if it was someone I was interested in, that’d be the biggest turn off I can think of.
So fortunate are you to not be bothered by other people, what a rare gift, enjoy your life of bliss.
I must confess being a scraper. I mean, I WAS a scraper. The day I had to endure it from somebody else was the last time I ever did it myself. It was the aforementioned roommate, a stoneware bowl of ice cream and a metal spoon. After finishing the bulk, he implemented a systematic elimination of any streaks of frozen dessert, an anti-creamatic pogrom designed to remove even the memory of frozen dairy product. After ten minutes of non-stop scraping, I freaked and yelled, “YES, YES! BE SURE TO GET EVERY FUCKING SQUARE MILLIMETER OF ICE CREAM OFF OF THAT BOWL!”
Him: “Oh, sorry.”
I guess I shouldn’t have waited so long.
Someone in my office was unable to juggle getting out for lunch with a meeting last week.
Five minutes before the meeting starts, he’s got his jacket on and is intercepted before being able to escape. WHINE! But I’m STARVING! Not my problem. Everyone else in our group read the email…
So, he takes off his jacket and says he’ll be right back. He runs into the conference room about two minutes late, holding a cup of ramen. He takes a seat and digs in.
SLURP!
SSLLSSP!
SLORP!
SSLPP! SLSSSUP!
Everyone else in the room just looks at him, but he’s oblivious.
It was so bad, that someone on the other end of the conference call was wondering what was causing all that static. It wasn’t static! It was Noodleface slurping down that damned ramen.
Once he realized that he could be heard eating six states away, he put down the ramen.
Blech.
You must admit that as a passive aggressive tactic, this* ruled*.
You have perfectly summarized exactly how I feel upon hearing the same set of sounds. To this, I will only add: gum chewers. I hate gum only because I can’t stand to hear someone else make these noises.
Oh, and yeah, my dogs cannot hold their lickers either. :smack:
To some of you, it would seem that drinking a milkshake (to its very end) is a capital offense. :rolleyes:
So, in order to finish a milkshake you must suck suck suck on the straw and make a bunch of noise with the cup? I beg to differ. You can just lifting the glass or cup to your mouth as a way to get the end of it. It really is quite simple. And it’s courteous to those around you.
Sorry, I just never found the “sounds” of eating/drinking offensive, and I cannot fathom how it bothers people. I don’t do it mind you, but if someone is slurping their soup it doesn’t bug me.
Nails on chalkboards don’t bug me either.
I’m going to have to look at this as a “phobia” of some sort. I understand people have them but it doesn’t mean I can relate.
I don’t mind the sounds that come with normal, even "enthusiastic"eating as described above. When it’s abnormally loud, then it’s off-putting. For example, if someone is making the Homer Simpsonesque "HargrAMPHHargrAMPHHargrAMPH"whilst shoveling pasta, mashed potatoes, etc., then that’s just uncouth. Talking with one’s mouth completely full is also on my list, as is whistling while eating mashed potatoes.
My wife drives me nuts whenever she licks her knife. To her credit, she doesn’t do it in public, but it just bugs me, as do people who bite on and toy with their silverware.
And if you’re eating popcorn in Rat-Boy sized handfuls in a movie, crunching and slurping, then you’re probably going to get a black Jujube to the back of the head.