I’ve actually gotten up from the table and moved to another spot when sitting next to an open-mouth, smacking lips eater. One of my biggest peeves!! ?

A really good reason for Xanax before dinner.....
I turn the TV or the music up.

Absolutely. I have a co worker who sits about 5 feet away doing his best impression of a hog at the trough. Some people hate knitting needles in the brain. For me it's eating noises ???????

ABSOLUTELY!! I believe people should be as quiet as humanly possible when they are eating. I am really big on table manners and if Miss Manners and Emily Post would frown, trust that I would too. I would also be cringing and wanting to stab the person.

Go to your happy place!!

All the time. If it’s an adult, generally insult them and their behavior. If it’s a kid, I’ll gently correct them and say it’s rude to chew with their mouth open.

I think you should see someone about your problem before you end up in jail.

Chewing with mouth open...that kills me. I can't be at the same table...and eating does NOT need sound effects.

Also, keep your elbows off the table and learn which utensil to use....

Yes. I have been enraged by mouth sounds for as long as I can remember. Not just chewing, but also those little smacky noises some people make when talking, or when they make that tsk sound between words.

Also, throat clearing, noisy breathing, rustling plastic bags, and typing. I curse the day people came up with audio files of that shit and decided to call it ASMR.

No one knows about this affliction. People will kill to stop the sounds. It may be eating for you. It is something else for other. Kelly Ripa suffers from it. For me it is ATVs & wind chimes. I start jumping up and down like Arlo Guthrie in Alice's Restaurant. "I wanna kill. I wanna see blood & guts I wanna kill."

That's one of mine years ago..... No, I didn't stab her but, don't feel bad about it... I wanted too ????

I spent 22 years with somebody with no table manners. Bad table manners might actually be a deal breaker for me now. LOL

I think the worst is when my mother walks up behind me chomping away at something. Disgusting. At least this won't happen anymore.

I have a problem with this too - but even worse to me are gum smackers. I absolutely cannot stand that ! I’ve been in places like movie theaters before and moved away from them.

Are you guys nuts, it is life, that is what it is !

No-I have my own habits lol. Drove my sister crazy at lunch yesterday.

maybe she's congested and can't breathe through her nose?

Haven't had the eating sound problem yet, as I virtually always eat alone, but other sounds trigger that response in me; e.g., my dog biting at an itchy spot. Usually, when it gets too annoying, I'll toss magazines at him, gently, of course. The other part of that is the constant licking (the dog, not me), that also drives me up a wall, and typically requires a foot nudging to stop.

i hate it

my strategy is to smack and Gobble and snort louder than they do so it doesn't bother me