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re: Is it weird to eat at a restaurant by yourself?

Posted on 2/19/16 at 2:23 pm to
Posted by chattabama
12essee
Member since Jun 2012
19315 posts
Posted on 2/19/16 at 2:23 pm to
I enjoy eating lunch by myself. It's nice to get away after having to put up with people's bullshite all morning.
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
102425 posts
Posted on 2/19/16 at 2:23 pm to
I like eating by myself. Mealtime is for food, not talking.
Posted by tigersnipen
Member since Dec 2006
2108 posts
Posted on 2/19/16 at 2:29 pm to
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Is it weird to eat at a restaurant by yourself?


Only for people with no self confidence or esteem and have to be around people all the time.

If you travel for work you are forced to. Why waste opportunities to eat at nice places just because you are solo?
Posted by KCMIZSEC
Member since Sep 2013
2199 posts
Posted on 2/19/16 at 3:34 pm to
I love eating by myself at a booth in a sit-down type restaurant. I do it with the hopes that some of you pricks with annoying little pissant kids will be annoyed in the same way you annoy me when I'm trying to quickly get through the security line at the airport.
Posted by Jp1LSU
Fiji
Member since Oct 2005
2542 posts
Posted on 2/19/16 at 3:47 pm to
As been said already, at the bar I find it quite common especially amongst the traveling folk. Depending on the restaurant table for 1 can be awkward. I am often suspicious of people who'd rather sit at a table for 1 than at the bar if they serve food there at the bar.
I get this is difficult for some people, I have had to personally counsel several people who upon having to travel alone would only eat in their hotel room. Some people are a combination of shy, insecure, and lack social dining sophistication. I feel as though once all the anxiety is relieved lots of people enjoy dining in social settings.
Bars at upscale restaurants are my personal favorite place to dine whether with my wife, friends, or alone.
Posted by SlowEasyConfident
Member since Nov 2015
6650 posts
Posted on 2/19/16 at 3:49 pm to
I go to hooters alone and go full on butters from South Park
Posted by sjmabry
Texas
Member since Aug 2013
18605 posts
Posted on 2/19/16 at 3:49 pm to
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Lunch less so than dinner.
Posted by JGTiger
Member since Aug 2007
2969 posts
Posted on 2/19/16 at 3:49 pm to
If it is a really good steak house, I prefer to eat alone because talking only gets in the way of a great steak. Very rarely do I get to do it though.
Posted by Kracka
Lafayette, Louisiana
Member since Aug 2004
41642 posts
Posted on 2/19/16 at 3:49 pm to
My wife says it is, but I do it all the time.
Posted by busbeepbeep
When will then be now?
Member since Jan 2004
19156 posts
Posted on 2/19/16 at 3:55 pm to
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I never could do it.

I do it all the time.
Posted by fisherbm1112
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2010
6571 posts
Posted on 2/19/16 at 3:58 pm to
I eat alone all of the time at lunch but I will never sit at a table, always at the bar. That is also because I feel like it is kind of shitty for a person to take up a whole table unless it is a two top. At least at the bar it is meant to be free seating and you can usually bullshite with the bartender and not feel quite as much like a loser.
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
70349 posts
Posted on 2/19/16 at 4:01 pm to
It's not weird, I'm a god and I do it.



Posted by fleurdelis
Winchestertonfieldville
Member since Nov 2008
321 posts
Posted on 2/19/16 at 4:15 pm to
I did this for the first time a few weeks ago. Had to run an errand at lunch and didn't feel like eating drive thru crap. It was quite enjoyable.

My husband is on the road all day for work and does it all the time.
Posted by EA6B
TX
Member since Dec 2012
14754 posts
Posted on 2/19/16 at 4:17 pm to
I do it all the time, it is my preferred way of eating out, I can enjoy my meal without someone talking to me and having to pretend I am interested in what they are saying.
Posted by blueridgeTiger
Granbury, TX
Member since Jun 2004
21729 posts
Posted on 2/19/16 at 4:22 pm to
Do it frequently, but no so much at upscale places. Generally at pubs or HB joints.
Posted by 5 Deep
Crawford Boxes
Member since Jul 2010
23768 posts
Posted on 2/19/16 at 4:34 pm to
No I've done it countless times....shite last weekend I went to go see Jason Isbell in concert by myself cause I couldn't find anyone else who wanted to pay that much and I had been really wanting to see him live for a long time


Have never felt uncomfortable or anything, prob cause I DGAF bout what people might think IMO it's kinda sad if you have to depend on other people every single time to enjoy things in life
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