Etiquette question...if you are disinterested, you are disinterested.
2006-12-17 14:56:54 · 16 answers · asked by Diesel Weasel 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
For me it just means that I'm embarrassed about my gaping yawn...but yeah if I yawn in public then I cover my mouth to be polite :)
2006-12-17 14:59:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I always cover my mouth because sometimes the movement of the mouth causes a little squirt of saliva to shoot out. I do it to be polite and not so gross! I even find myself covering my mouth while yawning in my car by myself.
2006-12-17 15:03:06 · answer #2 · answered by *Amanda* 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i'm in my mid-20s and develop into also taught to cover my mouth after I yawn. I agree that it truly is rude at the same time as human beings do not - my bf doesn't and it drives me insane. i do not care to look down a persons' throat in the time of a gathering or at the same time as ingesting dinner or perhaps with. it truly isn't any longer very appropriate! i imagine human beings are merely no longer too worried with etiquette lately! they say "oh, it is previous-formed" and do not imagine they favor to adhere to those guidelines anymore. perfect etiquette develop into significant to my mothers and fathers at the same time as i develop into turning out to be up and that i imagine that is in effortless words well mannered to others round you to apply perfect etiquette.
2016-11-27 01:17:34 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a way to keep the evil spirits from over taking your human form. So it's less of an etiquette thing and more of a no evil spirits thing.
2006-12-17 15:12:46 · answer #4 · answered by K8Lynn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't cover my mouth when I yawn. I also don't cover my mouth when I sneeze, burp, or cough. I'm going through a lack-of-courtesy stage of my life right now.
2006-12-17 15:02:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It prevents the spread of germs and the contagiousness of the yawn. It does hide your teeth for politeness.
2006-12-17 14:58:42 · answer #6 · answered by locke1021 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It wasn't polite to show one's teeth back in the day...thus covering your mouth.
2006-12-17 15:00:14 · answer #7 · answered by Robert B 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That you aren't showing a gaping mouth to a room full of people.
2006-12-17 21:12:04 · answer #8 · answered by zeroartmac 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always cover my mouth. I think it is just polite.
2006-12-17 20:01:07 · answer #9 · answered by jipp 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bored.
2006-12-17 15:02:09 · answer #10 · answered by Craig 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋