I worked with a girl once who would pluck her eyebrows out in the open at the lunch table. What made it so maddening seeing her pluck at her brows was that she was a terribly self-righteous know-it-all.

Posted by: Jen Wading at September 2, 2010 1:46 AM

I heard an expression that I wasn't familiar with the other day: "crop dusting".

Posted by: Cousin Dave at September 2, 2010 2:15 AM

I (and many others) were routinely napalmed on a 12 1/2 hour flight from Osaka to Detroit. Just when you thought you'd gotten fresh air at last, off he went again. Bastard. I figured out who it was because after a while it struck him as funny, and he was constantly jiggling in his seat trying not to laugh out loud. On the same flight was a woman who insisted on having her window shade up the entire flight so she could do Sudoku. The flight attendant must have told her 50 times to put it down, and she would, but as soon as the FA was gone again, up it went. Both the Gas Man and the Sudoku putz pretended not to speak English when spoken to.

Posted by: crella at September 2, 2010 11:28 AM

Smoking is the rudest behavior on this planet. In fact it goes beyond "rude" when it affects people who have heart disease and asthma. Since 63,000 NON-smoking Americans DIE each year from secondhand smoke, I would not only call it "rude" behavior, but abusive, cruel, criminal behavior. I can't count the times I have been forced to walk past a person sucking on a miniature toxic waste dump on fire, experiencing tightness in my lungs, coughing, asthma, bronchitis, headaches, and nausea due to their "rude" behavior. (Tobacco smoke contains 63 known cancer causing carcinogens, 4,000 to 8,000 deadly chemicals, and 619 additives including arsenic, hydrogen cyanide (used to kill people in gas chambers!), formaldehyde, benzene, cadmium (battery acid), polonium 210 (a radioactive ingredient), acetone (nail polish remover), ammonium hydroxide (toilet bowl cleaner), and nicotine (insecticide... how many other poisons kill roaches??!). Just because the tobacco industry spends billions of dollars each year to make "rude" people believe that it is "cool", by placing tobacco in famous people's hands in movies, magazine ads, etc... does not make it any less rude! 80% of the US population does not smoke, and 90% of those people don't want to be subjected to a nicotine addict's rude behavior. Let people fart away... at least it doesn't cause lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema, asthma, bronchitis, all types of other cancers, to name only a few tobacco related diseases! Oh... and another "rude behavior is when smokers toss their still burning miniature toxic waste dumps out their car window and burn forests, people's homes, etc... Did I mention that over 1,000 innocent NON-smokers die in cigarette cause fires each year in the US? The last time I witnessed a woman throw her cigarette butt out the window, we were stuck in a construction zone in beautiful Lake Tahoe on a hot sunny day (dry as a desert!). Amazed that she had a "Keep Tahoe Blue" bumper sticker on the back of her car, I called the police to report her license plate number, and promptly stepped out of my car, picked up the still-burning cigarette butt, and tossed it back into her car. As she hopped around looking for the cigarette butt, I informed her that people like her are the NUMBER ONE CAUSE of preventable forest fires. Is it that people smoke because they want to be rude? Or is it just that they become rude when they stupidly decide to smoke?

Posted by: tobacco victim at September 3, 2010 5:33 AM

Cousin Dave

I heard an expression that I wasn't familiar with the other day: "crop dusting"

I first heard it in the Stephen Slater articles. It's how F A blow off steam as they walk the aisles. Unfortunately, everyone is gassed, not just the rude passengers.

Posted by: siobhan at September 4, 2010 3:14 PM

Umm...."victim"...No, people don't smoke to be rude. Yes, some smokers exhibit rude behavior. People are addicted to cigarettes. Most have tried to quit several times. We smoke because we are addicted, not to inconvenience YOU. If walking by someone smoking causes tightness in your chest and all that, you need to go to a doctor because you have other health problems.

Oh, and I'm calling bullshit on your claim that second hand smoke kills 63,000 non-smokers a year. There's no way to prove that.

Posted by: Kimmy at September 8, 2010 8:38 PM

When I was in college, I worked at Sam's Club. While I manned the jewelry counter, a member walked up to the glass display case and clipped all ten of his fingernails. As if that wasn't rude enough, he left his clippings on top of the display case. In the words of Stephanie Tanner, "How rude!"

Posted by: Natasha A. at June 12, 2011 12:18 AM

People who floss in restuaraunts. I have seen this occurance on more than occassion, and it just makes me lose my appetite. It's not only rude, it's frigging gross!

Posted by: Eva at October 4, 2012 5:16 PM

When I was in my 20's and a city-dweller, gyms were much too expensive, so I'd go to the local YMCA to swim. Some of the other women would walk around the locker room totally nude. OK, fine, I wouldn't do that, but I understood not everyone was as prudish as I was. But one time this nude woman was on a bench, clipping her toenails, sitting in such a way that left her privates totally open for the viewing. I just couldn't bring myself to go back to the YMCA after that.

Posted by: Louise at June 18, 2013 4:55 PM