In most cases I restrain myself from passing a judgement on obsessive eaters.
In recent weeks though, I have become severely agitated when I go to my classroom which has a sign right on the door reading "NO FOOD OR DRINK" and people insist on bringing their dinner or their snacks in and eating them in front of everyone while people are trying to do their work and socializing while they eat. The classroom should not be treated like their living room.
They almost seem to be testing their limits. The teacher lets them get away with it and the school has ignored the complaint I sent to them.
I find the sound of them chewing their food revolting, offensive and distracting. Sometimes the sound of the food sloshing inside their mouths gives me chills down my spine.
The cafeteria is just right in walking distance, a place where if I see them eating, I refrain from evaluating them.
They also have option to take their food outside, a place where I can easily mind my own business.
Not only do people insist on bringing food into class but also continue to eat for extended periods of time. They go get more food after they finish what they have.
Unless it's a small class with a mutual agreement about food, eating in front of people is disgusting and disrespectful.
We have a tim Hortons at our school and nothing drives me more nuts then at 8 am there are two or three students unwrapping their bagel, eating half, wrapping it back up, 5 minutes later repeating the action, until they are done and then they crumple the wrapper up and put it in the bag! Like common just take the whole bagel out and wait till break to clean up your mess hahaha!
The point isn't whether it bothers someone or not. The point is it a rule or not? You may not like a doctors order, but you don't just make up your own. If you don't like the rule you don't just disregard it. You talk with the school about changing the rule.
So if you don''t like a doctors order you just do what you want to correct? Screw rules who cares. I actually think she will be a great nurse because she is observant of the rules.
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So if you don''t like a doctors order you just do what you want to correct? Screw rules who cares. I actually think she will be a great nurse because she is observant of the rules.
Uh, no. There's a big difference between eating in class and making up/disregarding provider orders. No need for the straw man argument.
Also, I'm sure you've never broken a single rule in your life. Always obeyed the speed limit and didn't go over just the tiniest little bit, never told a lie, that sort of thing.
I'm young, but I'm "old school" in my ideas of classroom decorum. I eat in class as a last resort, but I feel like I'm being rude by doing so and try to minimize it out of respect to others. It can be loud and distracting if it's a regular habit of many students in the room. So when I do it, I try extra hard to unwrap stuff with crinkly wrappers BEFORE coming into the room (or before the lecture begins). I chew quietly. Since it is a "last resort" (e.g., I'm hypoglycemic or something), I generally have whatever I could grab at a moment's notice from the cafeteria, but try to select non-stinky, non-messy items. I know it's a distraction, but I hope that by showing I'm not trying to be obnoxious, that I'm minimizing its impact on those who might be annoyed. And I give others the same leeway and benefit of the doubt if they're chomping down mid-lecture.
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A calzone with side sauce would annoy me.