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Annoying Habits You Should Avoid Doing In Public

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11 months ago

July 5, 2023

Annoying Habits You Should Avoid Doing In Public

These are habits that should not be done in public at all, but if at all one practices them, it should be in utmost privacy. Once a habit is established, it can be extremely difficult to break, but if you are determined enough, it is nothing impossible.

Start working on changing your habits to good ones that will attract people rather than repel them. Everyone has habits they know they should break for one reason or another.

But how do you know when something actually is an annoying habit? Take a good look into the following points and you’d be embarrassed to see how many of these annoying habits you perform on a daily basis.

Licking your fingers

Annoying Habits You Should Avoid Doing In Public

This habit can be a source of infection to the individual having the habit and the surrounding people. The saliva involved in the habit of finger-licking may contain pathogens that can be transmitted via fomites, which are inanimate objects.

Texting someone while walking/driving

Annoying Habits You Should Avoid

Needless to remind you what can possibly happen when you try to text and do other activities side by side? Contrary to common belief texting actually requires all your attention. Texting while talking to someone face-to-face is rude. Moreover not only do people get injured owing to this reckless habit but even die. We often come across stories of such selfishly reckless drivers who were busy texting and had jeopardized their own life added to that of the passengers. Lack of time often prompts people to text while doing other work. If you want to work sincerely, do any one of them, either text or work.

Scratching crotch or armpit

Habits You Should Avoid Doing In Public

Talking loudly in public transportation

Annoying Habits

Have some pity over people around you, and either learn to speak softly or don’t speak at all. Think of the poor souls who have had to face a horrible day.

It may so happen that you are one of those insane loudmouths who just don’t know how to turn the volume down. In this case, you will be one annoying person whom everyone would want to leave as soon as possible.

Making a lot of noises while you eat

Habits You Should Avoid Doing In Public

For an instant, smacking your lips while chewing or opening your mouth while chewing. These habits are not just annoying but pretty disgusting, so much so that people who have witnessed your grand display of chewed food spurting out your mouth occasionally throughout dinner would avoid going out with you unless forced. Needless to say, this habit can highly damage your date night.

Biting your nails and spitting them out

Habits You Should Avoid Doing

This is one intolerable nasty little bad manner. The basic reason is the saliva that envelopes the finger and added to which it ruins the shape of the nail. Moreover while biting your nails you stomach harmful bacteria-infested dirt that is stuck underneath your fingernails. It can someday make you really really sick.

Blowing your gum

Annoying Habits You Should Avoid

Chewing gum or blowing gum can be a really bad idea, especially in public. Some people simply can’t resist the idea of blowing out the gum.

Avoid blowing gum, or better, chewing gum altogether in a public setting, like school, work, bus, restaurant et al. But if your life is incomplete without chewing gum, then kindly do it in your home. Chewing gum in a public queue might irritate the ones watching you. Even the sound of regular chewing is annoying.

Nose picking

Annoying Habits

Nose picking in the public queue is a disgusting habit to do just as it is to watch. Every time you stick your finger in the nose to soothe an itch or extract irritating mucus, you just as well irritate those around you.

You are also placing germs in your fingernails which will ultimately end up on your smartphone screen or other objects you touch! Instead of your finger, use a handkerchief or some tissue, or lest people begin distrusting your hygiene.

Mucus Snorting

Annoying Habits You Should Avoid Doing In Public

Doing it in a public queue may disgust the people around you. Yes, mucus is probably a good thing for your body but how you choose to deal with its excesses in public is the problem.

When in pain to clear the accumulation of phlegm in your nasal passages, use a tissue or hanky. Do not snort and swallow your dirt when in the company of other people. It is gross and disrespectful.

Talking With Your Mouth Full

Annoying Habits you should avoid doing

Talking with a mouthful of food is just plain rude and a sign that you need to learn some table manners. Chew, swallow, and then talk. If you are asked a question, indicate with a gesture that you’ll answer after you swallow.

Don’t rush. If the other person really wants to hear what you have to say, he or she can wait.