A story about manners, or lack there of...

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What has become of our gum chewing society? Has gum now permeated every freaking part of our sacred world?

I just thought i would share this insanity. My husband and I went to a wedding the other day for a young couple, mid 20's or so. As soon as I walk in there are these two twenty something girls, I call them the Coach girls, you know the type, always has chunky highlights in their hair, big Coach handbag, and chews and pops gum really loud all while smiling with a big grinning mouth full of bleached teeth and wadded gum through glossy lips. Ugh, I can't even describe it without getting ill. So they are both going at it, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. One goes, then the other one goes, and it continues. I'm doing my best to get as far away from them as possible. I told my husband, I don't care where we sit, but your job is to keep me as far away from those girls as possible. I finally lost them, so we took a seat for the ceremony. Wouldn't you know it they took the last two available seats, RIGHT next to me!

That's not the worst part, can I just tell you that they popped their gum through the ENTIRE ceremony! I wanted to turn around and ask them if they were raised in a barn, or if maybe I was confused and this was really a hillbilly wedding and we were all going to do beer bongs next? NO, this is a freaking wedding for crying out loud! A ceremony where two people are going to pledge their lives to each other! What has this generation of young people come to that they think it's ok to pop their gum, in the THIRD row mind you, through a wedding ceremony? What has it come to, someone please tell me? Someone please tell me, is it that freaking necessary that you can't stop popping and slobbering and smacking for 5 freaking minutes? The most insane part was that everywhere I went, the "gum sisters" showed up right next to me, like a freaking curse. And do you know what happened next, do you know what happened that caused these

two cud-chewing cows to finally spit out their gum? They brought out freaking tortilla chips! A huge basket of tortilla chips at every freaking table! Is anyone else dying here? Needless to say, I was having a coronary. I was blessed to find a moderately quiet table outside. We stayed for the obligatory amount of time and then left post haste.

Just thought I'd let you relive the nightmare with me.

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