Question to open-mouth chewers...

I am just curious, why do you feel it necessary to share the contents of what's in your mouth with everyone around you? Is it that the flavor is so overwhelmingly delicious, that by displaying it for everyone to see and hear you think you may turn them on to the wonderful contents? Or is it that you really dislike all of your meeting-mates and want to quickly end the meeting by driving all of them to murderous ragelike levels of insanity?

Whatever the reason I ask a favor, please; if not for me, then for all of the other normal nose-breathing top of the food chain inhabitants of this planet; close your mouth and chew like you were NOT raised in a barn.

I do realize, that there are times, especially in the winter months, when our noses may be stuffed up and we have trouble breathing unless our mouths are slightly agape. But please, for the sake of us all, yes us all; me, because I'd like to keep my freedom and you, because i'm sure you'd like to keep your legs; skip the gum chewing/ice chomping during these stuffy times.

I admittedly may be a little oversensitive to this situation, but please forgive me for my politeness and for being raised by parents who believed that cud chewing should be reserved for a countryside pasture. But all the same, come on, those fatty deposits that surround that orifice that resides directly in the middle of your face, are lips, put them together. No one wants to hear it.

Thank you and have a nice day.