Comments for What's Gotta Go

Comment on Food in Mouth Problems, i.e. Chewing With Your Mouth Open by maria

maria — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:44:59 +0000

AHHH. I work in a school and we have recently aquired a student teacher who is very nice but has a horrible problem with chewing with his mouth open. It is not normal. It is not just talking and eating but his toung actually comes out of his mouth while he is chewing! I do not know if he needs to do this to keep the food moving around his mouth or if he has some sort of a problem but I can tell I am not the only person who can not stand this because the only empty seats at the luch table are the ones next to him! I hate getting to lunch last! Its a small table and he is so hard to avoid. There is nothing I can do to stop it. It takes all my attention not to glare at him!

Comment on Humor in Accents: Yes, you have one by Ben

Ben — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:21:44 +0000

I’ll have to agree with your linguist that the t in often is silent, you’ll see it in dictionaries as a second (and wrong) choice, even when most Americans say it this way. Been living in Nebraska less than a month and noticed the vowel shifting they do here, also the length of vowels changes, so you end up hearing dayem instead of **** or things like that. I LOVE accents and reading about them, nice post btw.

Comment on Fustrating, Frustrating; Supposably, Supposedly by Mike

Mike — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:42:56 +0000

The words I hate to see misspelled/mispronounced are “weird” (really spelled “wierd”), and “exspecially” (really “especially”) And it’s funny… the author of this post actually misspells the word “wierd” in the 2nd paragraph, second to last line. ALWAYS REMEMBER!!! ” ‘i’ before ‘e’, except after ‘c’ ”

Just my 2 cents.

Comment on Food in Mouth Problems, i.e. Chewing With Your Mouth Open by David

David — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:52:02 +0000

i’m dying inside. everybody around me chews with their mouths open…and it’s not just a 10-15 minute sit down, it’s over the course of an hour or so. they’ll take a few bites, talk, turn around and work on the comp, smack their food, wipe their hands and answer the phone with food in their mouth, then turn around and do it all over again. if you think that’s bad…hold onto your hat. lunch is with a korean, a cambodian, and a couple of mexicans. i have to smell fish, squid, kimchi, and whatever greasy food the mexicans are eating these days. oh, and the lunch table is 2 feet behind my chair. there is no ventilation in this room, and any unfinished food goes into the trash can with no lid that is 5 feet from my desk. if you want to talk about a stress test that’s out of control, i got a story that could top those of a vietnam vet’s.

Comment on Food in Mouth Problems, i.e. Chewing With Your Mouth Open by Jennifer

Jennifer — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:26:07 +0000

UGH!! I sit about 5 feet from a guy at work who faces me with no wall in between and he eats like a cowall day. Gum, cereal(which he slurps out of the bowl) and anything else he can get his mouth on. Plus, he takes a bite big enough for about 4-5 people and chews it 30+ times. I cannot stand it, I want to bang my head into the wall. I cannot use headphones at work since I have to answer the phone. I tried using only one ear, but his chewing is so loud, that won’t even drown it out. We are a small group, only 4 of us here and since we are so close together, I cannot play a radio either. You would think this guy is 5 years old the way he eats, but he is 35!! Plus, he is married. I do not know how his wife has not beaten it out of him yet unless she is a cow too!! I have been looking for a new job it is so bad!!!

Comment on Food in Mouth Problems, i.e. Chewing With Your Mouth Open by Mike

Mike — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:07:50 +0000

My brother (20) was just downstairs eating Chinese food. My god, I can not tell you how many times I have had to leave the room due to this terrible effing habit. Then he started crunching on a fortune cookie DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THE FORTUNE COOKIE. I honestly dont get what is so hard about closing the MF’ing trap.

I also hate how it’s always ‘my problem’ that I cant stand the noises……….

Comment on Food in Mouth Problems, i.e. Chewing With Your Mouth Open by Kelly (again)

Kelly (again) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:01:53 +0000

Me again. I finally broke up with my boyfriend. It wasn’t totally due to the open-mouthed chewing but for christ’s sakes it didn’t help! The funny (horrible) thing is that my step-dad chews with his mouth open too! How the **** do you smack ice cream? I end up leaving the room. lol oh well. Only 7 more months :) Good luck all!!

Comment on That Elusive Turn Signal by Kurt

Kurt — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:10:19 +0000

Im a new driver, my license test is coming up in a week, and while doing behind the wheel training, my instructor told me at least half a dozen times that I “signaled with my blinker too early”

I looked at him like he was crazy, and I asked how a safety measure liek turn signals could ever bee “too early”? I mean unless youre the old man whos driving down the street with his turn signal on for 4 miles.

Comment on Food in Mouth Problems, i.e. Chewing With Your Mouth Open by Lauren

Lauren — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:34:31 +0000

I hate the sound of people chewing with their mouths open. My mother actually told me I needed psychiatric help because of how much it annoys and angers me. As a result of my first snapping at my family to chew with their mouth’s closed, then asking kindly after repeated family discussions, I am no longer allowed (at the age of 22 years old) to ask someone in my household to kindly chew with their mouth closed. They literally think I have a clinical problem because of how much the sound annoys me.

Comment on Unreasonable Customers Drain Your Company by David T.

David T. — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:00:48 +0000

Not all business is good business. It’s ok to not go after certain customers, or to refuse to deal with certain customers, or even to fire a customer. Fire a customer: refund their money with the stipulation they never do business with you again.