I am a waitress at a hotel, for the residents, and around 98% of the time, its elderly people (over 50's I expect) and I'm always fine and awake when I arrive, but as soon as they enter the room, I can't control myself and keep yawning.
I don't know if its to do with me being tired (which I'm not) or if its something to with the fact that there's a lot of people at once entering the room, but it's been happening after a few weeks I started and it's starting to bother me a bit.
What is it that's making me yawn so much? :confused:

Here are a couple of sites that may answer your question.

Yawning may boost brain's alertness - being-human - 02 July 2007 - New Scientist (http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19426104.400-yawning-may-boost-brains-alertness.html)

Yawn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yawn)

Well I had to take time away from my prunes and get my shaw off my computer. 50 elderly? Poster has to be 18 or so??
But are they yawning when they enter

I think it's her brains way of boosting her alertness to keep her on her toes when it comes to serving these "elderly" customers who might expect exemplary service and respect.

Will I REALLY be considered ELDERLY when I turn 50?? :eek:

I didn't mean that 50 was elderly, I meant that was the youngest of age, sorry.
(and I'm 15, not 18, also in many of our young brains, people over 30 are considered old. Don't take it personally when we get there we'll see we're wrong)

They're not yawning, they're dancing to the salsa music from the room they just came out of, and talking.
I was once told that too much carbondioxide causes yawning? This was in my primary school from one of the other students of course, so I don't expect that to be true, but there's over 100 people in the same room.