Why is it that parents who home-school so often forget to teach their children basic etiquette? I know eight (counted them) families whose children chew with their mouths wide the hell open, including my roommate, and my roommate from last year.

And my roommate from the year before that, sometimes. He wasn't home-schooled, though. He's a vocal major.

Good frikkin' gosh, though. Is it so blamed hard to close your accursed mouth when you chew? The heck with 'see-food', I don't wanna hear-food!

Also, instead of gasp-slurping to keep from drooling, why don't you just close your mouth when you surf the web? Goodness. That one's simple logic.

(I take this so personally because these are the people that give us only-slightly-awkward home-schooled people the reputation of being socially inept, and in some cases inebriated. And yes, that's the right word.)

(And don't even get me started on Country. Bloody hell.)