Miss Manners

I think my life might be a lot better if I was never taught manners. I know I am no Emily Post - but egad. If I wasn't taught that it is disgusting to clip your toe nails on the train, or eat smelling food in a crowed elevator, pop my gum super loud, play my music at louder than full blast late at night, to play catch on a crowded sidewalk, to throw chicken bones in the grass, the throw anything on the ground, the hang up cloths I'm trying on in the dressing room instead of leaving them for employees, to tip waiters, to sleep with your friends significant other, to spit in the street, to cut in line, to steal people's things, to chew with my mouth closed, to cover my nipples with my clothing, to clean up my dog's poop, to call people names such as nigger, spic, kike, or gringa, to not use people's computers without asking, to not use every last drop of my roommates soap during a mad sex party in the bathroom, to smoke in an apt. (cigarettes or marijuana and then lie about it), to continue to smoke when someone is dying of asphyxiation because they are allergic to smoke and just say "Can't they leave?", to smoke in the stairwell of an apt and then leave the ashes and butts on the stairwell for other people to clean up, the leave the mcdonalds I was eating in the hall in the hall, to throw alcohol cans on the sidewalk, to not throw condoms out the window, to poop on a toilet seat and leave it for someone else to clean up, to leave a leotard covered blood in the dressing room for someone else to clean up, to wear large hair pieces to the theatre, the talk and shout at the screen during movies, to sneeze and/or cough on people, sitting down in subway seats that are too small to fit in so int he process of "Squeezing" in - sitting on the people on either side of you, to not shout at my friend across the subway car, apt, street, city, to not FILE my nails in public, or PAINT my nails on the train, (Even doing makeup on the train weirds me out - but at that one isn't smelly and doesn't risk spillage), having sex on the train (WHY would you even WANT to do this?), to not sit directly in from of people at the movies is there are only 10 people in the entire theatre, the list goes on and one - if I was not taught all of these things, perhaps when other people did them - I would not be so bothered - and all would be o.k. with the world.