Picture that you're on what seems like a date taken straight from a fairytale or romance novel. You and your impeccably dressed date are having a candlelight dinner in a cozy, beautifully decorated restaurant. With dim lighting, delectable food, soft music playing in the background, an unobstructed view of the ocean, the scene couldn't be more perfect. Then, out of nowhere, you hear an unusual sound. It takes you aback for a second. You decide to disregard it and figure that either you must be out of it this evening or someone at the other table must have dropped something. Then you hear it again. "What is that darn noise?" you ask yourself exasperatedly. You spend a moment trying to put your finger on what that sound could be while exchanging smiles with your gleeful date. All of the sudden, it hits you: Your date has been passing gas! Yuck! Thankfully, before I began dating my now-wife, I never witnessed any of my dates fart, but people have told me they...

People can have the most irksome habits. What's worse is when these individuals carry on with them even after people have brough the habit(s) to their attention. Here are a few that come to mind: 1. Picking one's nose in public 2. Passing gas (especially the noisy ones!) 3. Leaving the toilet seat up 4. Forgetting to spray air freshener after one has used the restroom 5. Interrupting someone else's conversation 6. Talking incessantly about oneself and not letting someone else get a word in edgewise 7. Checking someone out in a creepy, perverted way 8. Sneezing without covering one's mouth 9. Not holding the door for others 10. Not saying thank you when someone holds the door, lets you pass, etc. This list could go on forever. Though they can all annoy me to no end, I would have to say that #5 and #6 are the worst in my book. Hearing someone blather on and on is like listening to a broken record. And it doesn't get any ruder than interjecting in a conv...