For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school.
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For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going.
I don't know how people chew gum all day long.
I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that.
My primary school teacher once poured a bottle of curdled school milk forcefully down my throat. Then I threw it up all over her suede shoes. I'd rather have drunk from the spittoon in Barney's barber shop.
I never think it's right to chew gum in front of other people, but a lot of times I'll come in for a meeting chewing gum and I'll forget I'm chewing it. Then you don't want to swallow it because it stays in your system for seven years or something, so I've asked to throw it away. I've started to wonder if that's why I didn't get certain movies.
There's nothing worse than seeing someone chewing gum on the red carpet!
The president of the United States actually has to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time.
I watch children a great deal; their idea is that rules are always negotiable, whereas you absolutely cannot joke at the airport about your toothpaste, and you cannot rollerblade in Grand Central Station. I keep running up against these things.
Being successful is about professionalism, and chewing gum is unprofessional. Its also a huge pet peeve of mine.
It's a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you're not allowed to see where something comes from, don't put it in your mouth.
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