Common Decency

I consider my office to be a public place. After all, there are about 80 of us in this one room...pretty public, non? Here are some atrocities frequently perpetrated by my coworkers:

1. Blotting one's face with those disgusting oil blotting papers
2. Hoarking
   
3. Coughing up phlegm, spitting it out, then carefully examining it
4. Looking at oneself in a mirror for minutes on end, several times per hour
5. Clearing one's throat at ear-splittingly loud levels
6. Burping
7. Reeking of cigarette smoke (this one is educationally-specific)
8. Chewing with one's mouth open (or smacking one's chops as one eats)
9. Obviously talking about people when they are right next door
10. Laughing at the foreigner all the time
11. Insisting that injured people are not actually hurt
12. Coming to work when one is oozing with bodily fluids, coughing over everyone, sneezing, and wiping one's hands haphazardly everywhere
13. Using the toilet and not washing one's hands
14. Getting water all over the bathroom when one brushes one's teeth (I mean all over, not just 13-year-old-Carolyn-in-Florida-splashing-water-on-the-floor-as-she-washes-her-face everywhere...everywhere)
15. Hitting children (no, it's not legal. Yes, they still do it)
    
16. Yelling at children until one's eyes literally bug out of one's head
17. And the best...clipping one's toenails...in public

This isn't a slag against Korea. Leanne says she has quite a few doozies at her office who do many of these things as well. It's just that they are certainly punctuated when one is in a foreign country, away from the niceties of home.

Sh*t...they probably think I'm a barbarian.
Perhaps we're equal...

Perhaps if I don't have anything nice to say, I shouldn't say anything at all :(

After all...

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