Letter: Talking and chewing: It can be done, but should it?

To the editor:

Are there other people wondering why other people talk and chew gum at the same time?

Is this a new phenomenon or am I just too sensitive?

You have such a good newspaper, even if the sheriff’s report is pretty bland these days, and you don’t need filler articles, but I’d like to see something official about the number of people who carry on conversations with gum in their mouth, not tucked into a cheek and unseen, but right out there on the molars.

What does Steve Junken, DDS, think about gum?

Has there been an increase in gum sales?

And why do we see so many flossers discarded in parking lots?

Marilyn Fagg, Brown County

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