Really!? Gum!

I know I haven't put up anything for while. I'd like to say it's because I've been really busy but that is not quite the case. However, this event was to upsetting not to write about.

The other day I was going to my HR class which is in large lecture hall. This particular room seats over two hundred people and has theater type seats. (The kind of seats that are padded and fold up when you stand.) Even though the room has seating for 0ver two hundred there are less than fifty people in the class. Oddly enough we have assigned seats. Do teachers really care where you sit when you're in college? Apparently some do. Mostly our professor want us to sit close to the front as well as sit close to the people in our study groups (also assigned.)

When I entered the classroom it was just like any other day. I made my way to to the third seat in from the left three rows back and prepared myself to plop into my seat next to BJ. While I was in the motion of sitting down I noticed something out of the corner of my eye that was striking enough to cause a change in my downward coarse. I immediately stood upright and stared at a wad of bright green gum stuck to the underside of my seat.

Gum! Really?
I pointed it out to the people around me and straightway began with a similar rant. I assume anyone who sits in the seats in this room is an adult. Probably a student here. What kind of person would stick a wet, diseased wad of gum under their seat. We're all adults. Didn't we all learn how gross that is when we were children. What kind of person thinks they're so much above everyone else that the unwritten rules of courtesy don't apply to them? Would it really have been so inconvenient to dispose of your gum in another way that you had to put it under your seat? Is asking you to spit it into a piece of paper to much to ask? What about walking to a trash can and spitting it there? Or is getting up in the middle of a lecture just too embarrassing for you? You could have tried waiting until the end of the lecture and spit it out then. If all the other suggestions are just too difficult for you and you needed the gum out of your mouth immediately you could have swallowed it. But no. You choose the one option that effects more than just you. You chose to selfishly stick the gum under your seat. Why do all college students feel that they need to stick it to the man and do the absurd? You sir or ma'am are absurd. I would even go as far as to say that you are a terrible friend to your fellow man.

Maybe I know their situation. Maybe they had a really good reason for putting the gum there. I don't know their situation. They could have been saving it later. Or maybe someone else in the room had just fallen to floor in need of CPR and they quickly put their gum somewhere nobody would step in it and rushed to the aid of the victim.No matter what possible excuse I come up with I just don't think it is the real reason for their infraction. I still think your a bad person.

Let this be a warning to all of you. If you leave your gum stuck to the underside of a chair or table or anywhere it shouldn't be you are a bad person. And you don't want to be a bad person.