To think yawning is rude?

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Not normal yawning, but when you’re with people and sitting having food or drinks or whatever and someone is (genuinely) yawning, again and again. Not a subtle yawn, but a noisy yawn with no attempt to hide it.

Is it rude or can it not be helped?

YABU - it can’t be helped and people should be free to yawn in people’s faces
YANBU - it is rude not to attempt to hide the yawns with your hands and do it quietly, and if you’re that tired you should be away to bed not drinking and yawning

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What do you want people to do hold their breath.

You’d hate me. I have narcolepsy and when I have a sleep attack, I’ll start excessively yawning before hand. Over and over again. I really can’t help it.

I don’t think it’s anyone’s choice. People get tired, life is hard

It's a compliment, they're tired but have chosen to spend time with you rather than sleep.

It's polite to put your hand over your mouth when you yawn though, no one needs to see your uvula 😂

Just yawn normally, quietly, with a hand over their mouth. And if they’re so exhausted they can’t help but yawn loudly in company repeatedly they should get to bed.

Plus the big sighing noises that go with it.

Yawning happens… it’s genuinely doesn’t mean I am bored or too tired to enjoy things.

I can’t help it and I yawn really easily - just reading your thread title made me yawn

so if I’m out and I see someone yawn I will yawn and then I worry I’ve been rude so I think ‘don’t yawn again’ and thinking about a yawn makes me yawn.

eta I always cover my mouth and try and keep it subtle as you can!

Yawn.

I can't hold in a yawn, I do cover my mouth. It's rarely just one yawn, once I start there seems to be many more, sometimes a back and forth with the people I'm with as we yawn when we see the other yawn.
I don't think it's rude, it can't be helped.

Impossible to vote with that ridiculous level of manipulation.

Who's actually yawning in people's faces and how close are they getting to be considered 'in your face'?

This is part of what irritates me. Yawning is contagious so someone repeatedly doing it makes everyone else start.

But if the person can’t help it I guess it’s inevitable

DH has just asked me why I keep yawning….

Maybe you're boring? 😂

Over a table in a pub. Loudly with the sighing noises. Often learning back and making no attempt to cover their mouth.

I don’t mind if they find me boring and want to leave. Much better than having to endure their performative yawns.

YANBU….. when people yawn without covering their mouths and you see droplets of saliva coming out of their mouth🤮

it's not personal @Settings11111111 they're just cooling their brain 😆

I yawn a lot. People take the piss. I always apologise; sometimes I need to be told. I don’t know I’m doing it.

I’m at the table. It’s past the time I normally have my pajamas on because I’m not remotely a night owl. My husband is completely oblivious and chatting away. I stifle the yawning for the first 30 minutes. I try to psychically signally my husband. I wish I could reach him to kick him under the table, but he is too far away. Eventually a yawn breaks through and then another. I can’t help it.

it is now a whopping 9pm, all these people are crazy to think this outing should continue this late, but they don’t lead the life of a woman in her 50s caring for an ASD teen and working, and having been up since at least 5am, I am exhausted.

These are two separate issues.

Yawning is normal and cannot be helped, so it would be incredibly rude and quite unkind to harass someone about it.

But I do put my hand over my mouth and always say "oh excuse me" if I yawn when someone is talking, as that seems better manners than just opening my gaping pie hole and yawning hugely.

On chemo here. I’m utterly exhausted, so I yawn alot. I do go to bed when I can’t stay up a minute longer though.

Well, unfortunately I have a toddler ill be yawning!
I do make it as discreet as possible and offer my apologises if it keeps happening but unfortunately it's human nature.
Damn biology.

I literally cannot fathom having enough room in my brain to decide that someone's being rude to me because of a yawn. I yawn when im cold.