BYU students would be surprised to realize just how annoying they really are.
The well-mannered person attempts to make those around him or her as comfortable as possible in every situation. This extends to any occasion where two or more people occupy the same breathable air and/or are forced to see, hear, smell, feel, or (in rare occasions) taste one another.
Even if I never acknowledge a fellow classmate, I still enter into a social relationship with him or her and am responsible to uphold my end of the social bargain, which we have come to term “etiquette” — pulling our legs in underneath our bodies when we sit in a heavily trafficked hallway, attempting a second time to park between the lines, using words such as “excuse me,” “thank you” and, above all, “please.”
But I am not an altogether accepting and charitable person. I am annoyed to the point of silent screams by some of the most benign actions and events: Vacuum-sealed men’s jeans, faux-hawks, bare feet in class, flat-brimmed sideways hats, girls’ loud laughter, texting during lectures, unsolicited guitar players (especially when accompanied by singing), grading on attendance, phrases like “more simpler,” and peppering every sentence with “like.”
Yes, I am cantankerous, but my own social inadequacies aside, this school has a serious problem with etiquette. Please attempt to think of the others with whom you share this fine institution. If we were all to spend more time looking out for the comfort of others, we might just find a little more comfort for ourselves.
Christopher Fosse
Spokane, Wash.
Feeds 
Wow.... etiquette includes girls not laughing? What are you trying to do suck the happiness out of the world?
I'm sorry not everyone can talk like you, dress like you, or act like you. Seriously, you need to get over your annoyances. Yes, people will do things that you don't like, but you REALLY need to get over that. And if you took your own advice and weren't so hypocritical... "If we were all to spend more time looking out for the comfort of others, we might just find a little more comfort for ourselves.".... maybe you wouldn't be so annoyed and obsessed with every little thing people do at this school.
Please go to a different school and see what the real world is like and then come back and talk to us about how BYU students don't mind their manners.
Look around you, Chris. The entire WORLD has a problem with proper etiquette. BYU is not a sanctuary from the world; oftentimes, BYU becomes an effective mirror of such.
Shouldn't we expect more of BYU students?
Dude that isn't BYU, it's Americans in general. Don't get me wrong I love my country and am very patriotic, but I must admit that after living abroad I agree with the general international sentiment that Americans can be (or at least appear to be) quite loud, boisterous, arrogant, self-centered, and ignorant/indifferent to others around them.
That hasn't been all bad. Our "get-er-done" attitude and our belief in individualism and "American exceptionalism" has built our country and established our economy as the premier standard and envy of the world (I'm talking generally about the last 150 years of history, not the last 5).
But I don't agree with your comments about others' fashion. I personally would never be caught dead wearing tight jeans, but there is nothing "rude" about it, so I just don't pay attention to it.
amen brotha