a question of etiquette

so let’s say you’re sitting in a meeting at work. it’s work and all, but still pretty casual. and say in the middle of this meeting you were blowing giant Super Bubble bubbles and one popped all over your face. then let’s just say since this is the super-cheap, loses-its-flavor-in-4-seconds gum that it really sticks to your face.

so what do you do?

would you just peel it off and plop it back in your mouth, and start chewing?

would you peel it off and then get up and toss it in the garbage?

would you draw great gobs of attention to yourself and make everyone look at your gummy face?

but, what if, for instance, you have a nose ring and the bubble was so gianormous that when it popped the gum sticks to it. then what do you do?

really, is it just too disgusting for words to peel it off and start chewing it again?

inquiring minds want to know.

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7 Comments

  1. girl 15.May.03 at 2:07 pm

    if I didn’t have a new piece in my pocket to chew, I would totally peel it off and put it back in my mouth. can’t be wasteful.

  2. Bonny 16.May.03 at 8:47 am

    Jodi, please tell me that you are not so rude that you chew gum at work. PLEASE tell me that you don’t blow bubbles in meetings. Ew. Ew.

  3. Thomas 16.May.03 at 10:52 am

    Gum on the nose ring is like gum on the nose, so the same rules apply; If the gum stays on your own nose (and associated decor), chew it more. If the gum is now attached to someone else’s nose (or accoutremont), let it go.

    You may ask yourself, “Self, how does one’s own gum wind up on someone elses nose?”

    Well lets conjecture that you haven’t had much experience blowing bubbles, but desperately want to do so. You put the gum in front of your teeth, held down with your lips. Also, you’re so anxious for a bubble that you’ve been chewing it constantly for the past 15 minutes, making it pliable and very wet and slippery. You begin to blow air, but nothing is happening. You blow harder, blood pressure rising, and still no bubble. You tense up and blow for all your worth, sending the gum shooting out of your mouth like a gum cannon and smack into the center (scent-er) of someone else’s face. That’s how it would happen…

    Theorhetically… Not that it has ever happened to me in 3rd grade on a field trip to the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago… Er… I gotta go, or something…

  4. Diva 16.May.03 at 5:42 pm

    Maybe this is the reason why you don’t get many dates….

  5. jodi 16.May.03 at 9:47 pm

    no way, i don’t get many dates because i’m kind of a snarky, intimidating bitch.

  6. Wes 18.May.03 at 8:12 am

    And you’re tall. Don’t forget the tallness.

  7. Tasha 03.Oct.03 at 6:30 pm

    When you are at a meeting you should never have gum in your mouth to begin with and why would you have a noise ring whaile also at a meeting.You should think what would happen before you put the gum in your mouth and you also have to know if your aloud to have gum at this meeting.After you are done with the meeting then you can put gum in your mouth at your desk when no one is looking because then someone will ask for gum.Do your self a favor and don’t chew gum at a meeting.