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Eating on your own in public
- Thread starter LeeOnePen
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Re: Eating on your own in public
1. Meal with wine.
2. Hotel bar, pint.
3. Another pint, strike up conversation with barman/maid.
4 Another pint, shooting the breeze about any topic that springs to mind. You are witty and have barman/maid chatting and laughing away.
5. Pint with brandy chaser. Things are fuzzy, but you're enjoying the banter. Some stuff that sounded funny in your head isn't quite as side-splittingly funny when it exits your mouth.
6. Double brandy, for the road. They are tolerating you now. You're pissed but stressed at the loss of bonhomie. You get quite tearful that you've got drunk and have needed the company of strangers just to make you feel accepted. This in turn makes you surly and truculent about ANYTHING.
7 Another double, I said another GODDAMMIT! People are wary. You mutter about your ex and what she did to you. You cry openly and loudly but shrug off a hand on your shoulder advising you to get some sleep.
8. You've got it together, laugh off the previous half hour's emotional breakdown and manage to get yourself a single brandy cos you've promised to go to your room after it.
9. Staggering around the bar, you are angry and lonely, making reference to your ex "getting what she deserved" and the fact the prosecution called it "kidnap". You also claim to "know what happened to Maddie".
10. Wake up in a holding cell.
1. Meal with wine.
2. Hotel bar, pint.
3. Another pint, strike up conversation with barman/maid.
4 Another pint, shooting the breeze about any topic that springs to mind. You are witty and have barman/maid chatting and laughing away.
5. Pint with brandy chaser. Things are fuzzy, but you're enjoying the banter. Some stuff that sounded funny in your head isn't quite as side-splittingly funny when it exits your mouth.
6. Double brandy, for the road. They are tolerating you now. You're pissed but stressed at the loss of bonhomie. You get quite tearful that you've got drunk and have needed the company of strangers just to make you feel accepted. This in turn makes you surly and truculent about ANYTHING.
7 Another double, I said another GODDAMMIT! People are wary. You mutter about your ex and what she did to you. You cry openly and loudly but shrug off a hand on your shoulder advising you to get some sleep.
8. You've got it together, laugh off the previous half hour's emotional breakdown and manage to get yourself a single brandy cos you've promised to go to your room after it.
9. Staggering around the bar, you are angry and lonely, making reference to your ex "getting what she deserved" and the fact the prosecution called it "kidnap". You also claim to "know what happened to Maddie".
10. Wake up in a holding cell.
Re: Eating on your own in public
What? Wearing a donkey jacket and rigger boots?gaudinho's stolen car said:I've had to travel for work many times on my own and as you can see from here so have many others. It's perfectly natural to be eating alone in a hotel restaurant, the best thing to do is give off the impression that you are a Very Important Businessman.
BimboBob
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Re: Eating on your own in public
Did I serve you a brandy a while ago?
The Flash said:1. Meal with wine.
2. Hotel bar, pint.
3. Another pint, strike up conversation with barman/maid.
4 Another pint, shooting the breeze about any topic that springs to mind. You are witty and have barman/maid chatting and laughing away.
5. Pint with brandy chaser. Things are fuzzy, but you're enjoying the banter. Some stuff that sounded funny in your head isn't quite as side-splittingly funny when it exits your mouth.
6. Double brandy, for the road. They are tolerating you now. You're pissed but stressed at the loss of bonhomie. You get quite tearful that you've got drunk and have needed the company of strangers just to make you feel accepted. This in turn makes you surly and truculent about ANYTHING.
7 Another double, I said another GODDAMMIT! People are wary. You mutter about your ex and what she did to you. You cry openly and loudly but shrug off a hand on your shoulder advising you to get some sleep.
8. You've got it together, laugh off the previous half hour's emotional breakdown and manage to get yourself a single brandy cos you've promised to go to your room after it.
9. Staggering around the bar, you are angry and lonely, making reference to your ex "getting what she deserved" and the fact the prosecution called it "kidnap". You also claim to "know what happened to Maddie".
10. Wake up in a holding cell.
Did I serve you a brandy a while ago?
Ethan23
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Re: Eating on your own in public
this is hilarious
The Flash said:1. Meal with wine.
2. Hotel bar, pint.
3. Another pint, strike up conversation with barman/maid.
4 Another pint, shooting the breeze about any topic that springs to mind. You are witty and have barman/maid chatting and laughing away.
5. Pint with brandy chaser. Things are fuzzy, but you're enjoying the banter. Some stuff that sounded funny in your head isn't quite as side-splittingly funny when it exits your mouth.
6. Double brandy, for the road. They are tolerating you now. You're pissed but stressed at the loss of bonhomie. You get quite tearful that you've got drunk and have needed the company of strangers just to make you feel accepted. This in turn makes you surly and truculent about ANYTHING.
7 Another double, I said another GODDAMMIT! People are wary. You mutter about your ex and what she did to you. You cry openly and loudly but shrug off a hand on your shoulder advising you to get some sleep.
8. You've got it together, laugh off the previous half hour's emotional breakdown and manage to get yourself a single brandy cos you've promised to go to your room after it.
9. Staggering around the bar, you are angry and lonely, making reference to your ex "getting what she deserved" and the fact the prosecution called it "kidnap". You also claim to "know what happened to Maddie".
10. Wake up in a holding cell.
this is hilarious
peoffrey
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Re: Eating on your own in public
I'll often go out alone for a Full English after a heavy night out or to set me up for the day when I'm at football - and quite enjoy the peace of eating, reading the football in the paper and checking stuff on my phone. I'm never usually the only person doing this and think there's nothing wrong with it. However, I've never done it before at a regular restaurant. I'd rather get a takeaway or make do with something else as restaurants are more sociable places then Cafes or Wetherspoons.
If I hadn't been to Tottenham on my own once then I'd never have met my best Blue mate. He too was alone and we started chatting on the train and became firm friends since then.
I'll often go out alone for a Full English after a heavy night out or to set me up for the day when I'm at football - and quite enjoy the peace of eating, reading the football in the paper and checking stuff on my phone. I'm never usually the only person doing this and think there's nothing wrong with it. However, I've never done it before at a regular restaurant. I'd rather get a takeaway or make do with something else as restaurants are more sociable places then Cafes or Wetherspoons.
If I hadn't been to Tottenham on my own once then I'd never have met my best Blue mate. He too was alone and we started chatting on the train and became firm friends since then.
gaudinho's stolen car
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Re: Eating on your own in public
Gay Blind Date.
peoffrey said:I'll often go out alone for a Full English after a heavy night out or to set me up for the day when I'm at football - and quite enjoy the peace of eating, reading the football in the paper and checking stuff on my phone. I'm never usually the only person doing this and think there's nothing wrong with it. However, I've never done it before at a regular restaurant. I'd rather get a takeaway or make do with something else as restaurants are more sociable places then Cafes or Wetherspoons.
If I hadn't been to Tottenham on my own once then I'd never have met my best Blue mate. He too was alone and we started chatting on the train and became firm friends since then.
Gay Blind Date.
Blue Smarties
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Re: Eating on your own in public
City friend.peoffrey said:I'll often go out alone for a Full English after a heavy night out or to set me up for the day when I'm at football - and quite enjoy the peace of eating, reading the football in the paper and checking stuff on my phone. I'm never usually the only person doing this and think there's nothing wrong with it. However, I've never done it before at a regular restaurant. I'd rather get a takeaway or make do with something else as restaurants are more sociable places then Cafes or Wetherspoons.
If I hadn't been to Tottenham on my own once then I'd never have met my best Blue mate. He too was alone and we started chatting on the train and became firm friends since then.
glen quagmire
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Re: Eating on your own in public
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2clzbfj-UL4[/youtube]
peoffrey said:I'll often go out alone for a Full English after a heavy night out or to set me up for the day when I'm at football - and quite enjoy the peace of eating, reading the football in the paper and checking stuff on my phone. I'm never usually the only person doing this and think there's nothing wrong with it. However, I've never done it before at a regular restaurant. I'd rather get a takeaway or make do with something else as restaurants are more sociable places then Cafes or Wetherspoons.
If I hadn't been to Tottenham on my own once then I'd never have met my best Blue mate. He too was alone and we started chatting on the train and became firm friends since then.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2clzbfj-UL4[/youtube]
Gelsons Dad
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LeeOnePen said:Tonight is one of those rare nights when I'm away from home for work, without a colleague or client to meet for dinner.
I'm in a depressing hotel restaurant, as I think that's marginally more socially acceptable than going to a 'proper' restaurant on your own. Also eating early to get it out of the way.
Bluemooners are a wide and varied bunch. Anyone face this situation regularly and have a strategy for getting through it?
I have to do this a lot. There is nothing to it. I also don't hide in crap hotel restaurants. Just go out and enjoy your dinner. It's not as if you are billy no mates. You're away on business.
A couple of places where I have to do it a lot I go to the same restaurant. The staff know me and make me feel very welcome. They know I'm working away from home. There is nothing " socially unacceptable" about it!