What Are Your Top 5 Manners Pet Peeves?
Checking your phone/texting during a meeting or social gathering
Answering your phone or talking/texting at church, during a lecture, or in a theater
Asking inappropriate questions or expressing unsolicited opinions about someone’s personal life
Not giving up your seat for someone who is disabled, pregnant, or elderly
Interrupting or talking over someone while they are speaking
Leaving trash behind in a public place
Driving aggressively: Cutting off other drivers, honking excessively, etc.
Making loud phone calls or yelling in a public place
Staring at or making comments about other people in public (especially those with any kind of disability)
Being rude to people in the service industry: Snapping at waiters, being abrupt with doormen or hotel clerks, etc.
Peppering your conversation with curse words
Attending to matters of personal hygiene in public
Loudly slurping a beverage or cracking chewing gum
Spitting in public
Offhandedly making lewd or racially-tinged comments
Holding court on political or religious views, without considering whether others present agree with you
Dominating a conversation; talking to hear the sound of your own voice
Engaging in one-upsmanship/bragging
Taking credit for other people’s work
Wearing sloppy dress in public (running errands in your pajamas, for example)
Imposing on other people (dropping by unannounced, asking for favors but never returning them, etc.)
Ignoring/not responding to a personal invitation
Yawning audibly, and especially failing to cover your mouth when doing so
Displaying bad table manners
Taking up more than your fair share of space in public (spreading your knees and using two armrests on an airplane, for example)
Eavesdropping or horning in on a conversation between other people
Delivering bad or otherwise important news over text message or e-mail rather than face-to-face
Persistent tardiness: Always showing up late for business or social appointments
“Oversharing” inappropriate details about your personal life
Constant complaining
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