I sat down in a session today and the person next to me was eating raw carrots. She (yes there are a handful of women here) kept crunching and crunching. I moved seats, but it was still annoying. Do people lack common courtesy or do they not realize the are disturbing my peace?
In another session, the guy next to me started cracking his knuckles. If I smacked him, would he have stopped? Why should I have to tell people to be kind? I can handle typing at the conference because there is enough other noise to mask it; however, the knuckle cracking and the carrots are just plain annoying. I guess many of these people don’t get out much and don’t need to be courteous to others.
In my last session of the day, the lady next to me took off her shoe and started cracking her toes. To top it off, she banged on her keyboard at 100 miles per hour; the keyboards on the MacBooks are really annoying when people type fast. I could live with that (sort of), but cracking her toes almost put me over the edge.