To expect people to cover their mouths when they yawn?

With you all the way here phoenix. Another pet hate is people eating with their mouth open - and talking! Yuk, I really don't want to see their half-chewed food thank you!

Where are the manners we were taught gone? Things like covering your mouth, not talking whilst eating are now disregarded. My two DGDs aged 9 and 12 are often allowed to eat with their fingers, leave the table on a whim and have no idea what to do with a napkin. My DS was taught all these things so why have they not been passed on? Manners make life much more pleasant

I sometimes yawn with my mouth open "a la hippo"

But considering I spend almost all day every day on my own there's no-one to see or get upset about it.

Plus acute tiredness and boredom overcomes manners.

It's just a relex action for me - my hand moves automatically towards my mouth at the hint of a yawn! It must have been really drummed into me!

And yes, I agree, it looks horrible and just like a hippo.

I was dragged up.

On my regular train commute I frequently have the misfortune to sit opposite uncovering the mouth yawners - I have an almost irresistible urge to say 'put your hand over your mouth'. On the whole, they are young women. Ana
I agree - I think I just could not yawn without covering my mouth

I'm with you all the way, another pet hate I've got is people.

Worse when they cough without putting their hands over their mouths. yuck!

That's just disgusting minimo

Yes, I agree that it's horrible to watch. I also hate the constant sniffing from (usually, but not always) young men. I keep wanting to say "Haven't you got a hankie?

Am I the only one who had to yawn when reading this thread?

(I did put my hand over my mouth, although there's no one else here)

And on a sort of nother tack. I even feel a bit odd about scratching my face or my head, because Mother Superior at the convent I went to at my most impressionable age, said it was bad manners to touch your head in public. I could never figure out if she meant in public in general, or just in church, and it's a silly rule anyway, but I still feel a bit guilty.

'On a sort of nother track' ?
Is that an Americanism? Haven't seen it before.

same letters - different order !!

JackyB so sorry if you found this thread made you yawn, was it because you found it boring?
(I'm asking because it is not good to make assumptions)

I have just yawned ( not covering mouth.....only me here) just reading the word yawn makes me yawn, it's catching!
It is horrible to see it though, but not as bad as others coughing or talking with full mouths.
Jacky are you sure that Mother Superior said head, and not crotch?

I always remember Cherie Blair's gaping yawn, a photo of which was in all the papers ... it looked terrible, I thought.

Mother superiors have a lot to answer for......

Jacky I hope you had a better time at you Conven school. Mine was a nightmare. I call it a borstal.

Here's a good yawn!

People who sneeze loudly through their mouths . Yuk

Me too Roses. Say read yawn and I do.

It's hard not to isn't it?

Baby yawns are so cute .

I really hate young women who have their tongues hanging out in photos. Do they think they look cool or fun? Half-baked is more like it! Re: sneezing - when I worked in retail, I had people without number who would sneeze in my face! Yeeugh - would ostentatiously take a step back! Surely you feel a sneeze coming on & can turn away or pinch your nose?!