For example, if you chew it unconsciously, sometimes you smack it loudly, it gets in your hair (I've had a friend fall alseep with gum in her hair), also it looks awful during interviews.
So your interviewer says: what makes you think you are qualified for this position?
and the interviewee will say: *smack* *smack* well, *bright green wad being tossed around mouth, smack* I think...
and the interviewer will look at you like this:
word of advice, just don't do it.
Another this is gum at school and in class. Okay, do teachers really, really, really care? (Maybe some language teachers do, it's incredibly hard to pronounce some things in russian and croatian or even french with that wad of gum stuck behind your gums!) Most likely, they don't. The only reason they do care, is because gum ends up all over the bottom of desks, and on the floor and like in other miscellaneous places. Students and teachers step on it, and when they're moving desks grab it and it's just plain gross.
NOBODY LIKES THAT.
So that's why they take away our gum chewing privlages. The real question is why can't the gum chewers just take their damn wads of gum and throw them out in the trashcan like civilized beings? It's hardly close to difficult. Honestly, by spitting your gum out on the floor or sticking it under your chair or your desk, on your chair or in the vent of the heater, you make it so that the rest of us can't chew gum in class.
