Dining/Drinking Alone

[Mich the Tester]

When you're contracting away from home, do you eat out by yourself - visit a bar for a drink or two, stroll to a restaurant, etc?

Yes

Do you read or spend the time looking like you're embarrassed to have no friends?

No

[d000hg]

Yes


No

Is that because they're scared of the big bruiser who has turned up to their nice restaurant?

[sasguru]

The ability to eat out alone is one of the markers of adulthood.
If you have difficulty doing this you are still a child.

HTH

[TestMangler]

When you're contracting away from home, do you eat out by yourself - visit a bar for a drink or two, stroll to a restaurant, etc? Do you read or spend the time looking like you're embarrassed to have no friends?

Listen very carefully, i shall say this only once,

PUNTERNET

[BlasterBates]

I don't go out so much alone these days, simply because I'm too busy (practising or playing Rockabilly ), but I used to really enjoy going to a Pizza place and having a beer and a Pizza on my own, especially with a glass of real German beer "vom Fass".

[Mich the Tester]

Is that because they're scared of the big bruiser who has turned up to their nice restaurant?

Possibly, but I'm a very gentle bruiser. Sometimes if I'm a in a restaurant where they don't know me some waitress or waiter will offer me a newspaper (usually de Telegraaf, which makes the Daily Wail look sensible) or a magazine to read, and appear to feel sorry for me. I don't really get that; I know that some people need to have company all the time but I'm quite able to sit happily on my own. Not that I avoid company, but I don't need it constantly.

So to all those who think someone sitting eating on his own is miserable or lonely; no, I'm not, so don't worry about me, don't feel sorry for me, and if I want to eat my meal with other people I'll phone a friend and go and eat with them.

[Mich the Tester]

Listen very carefully, i shall say this only once,

PUNTERNET

Or, for gentlemen who enjoy female company but don't want to put their relationship at risk,

Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once,

MUNTERNET

[d000hg]

The ability to eat out alone is one of the markers of adulthood.

I think you've just had a lot more practice due to lack of alternatives.

So to all those who think someone sitting eating on his own is miserable or lonely; no, I'm not, so don't worry about me, don't feel sorry for me, and if I want to eat my meal with other people I'll phone a friend and go and eat with them.

If you're having a nice 3 course lunch, what do you actually do then? Or is the whole point that you are doing nothing?

[doodab]

I think you've just had a lot more practice due to lack of alternatives.

If you're having a nice 3 course lunch, what do you actually do then? Or is the whole point that you are doing nothing?

I tend to pick somewhere good for people watching, and watch people.

[Mich the Tester]

Or is the whole point that you are doing nothing?

Yep. I quite like a little peace between courses to just do nothing. The rest of the day I'm busy, so it's quite relaxing to have nothing to do for a little while each day.