When did people start eating with their mouths open in public?!?!?! This is so rude and annoying!!! It does seem that this problem is largely affecting the younger generation (I can't belive I'm calling someone a few years younger than me "a younger generation"). Am I so touchy because I went to a so-called finishing school for girls? We have a temp and an intern that sit right next to me and both of them chew so loudly that I just want to kill them. Is it possible to say something to them nicely? I don't want them to roll their eyes, but this is annoying me to no end. How can people have no manners whatsoever?