Do you eat in restaurants alone?

[Ryko]

Meals yeah, movies no

[Shiroikage]

very, very rarely

[Mizango]

Movies I dont do alone though.

[Knyghtmayre]

I do it often and feel great about it, sometimes its nice to enjoy food and do some thinking. Then again I guess you have to care what other people think for it to bother you? I've never felt awkward, sometimes we want different shit to eat and Ill go one way and eat and they go the other.

idk man.

pretty much this, food is food. it's not some social event

[Kaludneisucks]

Lots of people dine alone. I work in a really high end establishment and i see it all the time, some people just like it that way, others are obviously alone for a reason, though to be honest, when you got a fat ass ugly chick having a 200$ lunch by herself, well you gotta wonder cus i mean she SEEMS pretty happy to me...

[Absolutely Virtue]

I'm deliberately late whenever I meet anyone in a bar because I feel so stupid sitting there drinking by myself. Even if I know the bartender, I still feel like that guy. I could never dine alone, or go to a movie or a show alone.

All of this is probably because when I'm sitting there with my friends I'm usually looking at the people sitting by themselves and thinking, "look at that asshole with no friends."

[Kaludneisucks]

naw man, thats what the staff is there for, were friends for hire. 20% bitches.

[Mertron]

i used to work at a red lobster, and one day i needed a ride to pick me up from work, who never showed, nor answered his cell phone.

so at about 11pm, I begin to walk the 5 or so miles it takes to get home. Of course, it begins to pour when I begin the walk. Not rain, a fucking monsoon. Halfway through my trip, I come to the local trashy diner, at about 12:30am or so. I say to myself, fuck it, I be hungry, I'm going in.

Picture, if you will, the look on the wait staff an the other patrons when I walk in. I am wearing, if you have never seen a red lobster shirt, a bright green button down shirt with a variety of multi-pasteled fish all the fuck over it. I am soaking fucking wet, and at the time I had slightly longer hair, which I had died green (lewl). I sat and ate my bacon omlette while being the focus of attention for about...idk 20 people

since then, eating out alone has not been a problem for me.

[Mertron]

i used to not have a problem drinking alone in a bar either, but around winter break the bar i usually go to hired the mailbu girls to come the night I went there, and it's incredibly awkward to have people who are basically being paid to annoy you keep bothering you while I am trying to relax and have a beer, so I stopped going.

[Mertron]

i have thought about going to the movies alone sometimes, because sometimes there are movies I want to see but have no one to go with, but that just seems strange to me, idk

[Knyghtmayre]

why would you wear a green shirt at red lobster?

[Mertron]

fuck should i know, we didnt have many options for what we could wear, and all the workshirts of any color had fish all over them

did they change the uniforms at red lobster, i dont eat seafood so I wouldnt know since I stopped working there

[Knyghtmayre]

i don't eat things with more than 4 legs, i'm not a monster

[Kyo]

I go watch movies by myself sometimes if I have no one to go with me, or none of my friends are interested. I dont mind eating alone either.

[Mizango]

i used to work at a red lobster, and one day i needed a ride to pick me up from work, who never showed, nor answered his cell phone.

so at about 11pm, I begin to walk the 5 or so miles it takes to get home. Of course, it begins to pour when I begin the walk. Not rain, a fucking monsoon. Halfway through my trip, I come to the local trashy diner, at about 12:30am or so. I say to myself, fuck it, I be hungry, I'm going in.

Picture, if you will, the look on the wait staff an the other patrons when I walk in. I am wearing, if you have never seen a red lobster shirt, a bright green button down shirt with a variety of multi-pasteled fish all the fuck over it. I am soaking fucking wet, and at the time I had slightly longer hair, which I had died green (lewl). I sat and ate my bacon omlette while being the focus of attention for about...idk 20 people

since then, eating out alone has not been a problem for me.

Your misery warmed my heart.

[Mizango]

All of this is probably because when I'm sitting there with my friends I'm usually looking at the people sitting by themselves and thinking, "look at that asshole with no friends."

See that doesn't bother me. Especially considering that the person saying that is more than likely broke and having husband and foreclosure issues, so if some fat bitch wants to laugh at me for dining at a restaurant alone to feel better about her situation then so be it.

[#686578]

Actually yeah, I wont go to movies alone even if I really want to go see a movie. That does feel awkward.

[Mizango]

I went to see Harriet the spy by myself, but then again I wanted to masturbate to Michelle Trachtenberg in a rain coat.

[Zalius]

no

[Chun Liroy]

I'm pretty much alone with my thoughts most of the day otherwise, that's why I prefer to get away from that and have a conversation instead. The whole stigma is most likely a remnant of my social anxiety when I was a teenager if I'm in the minority regarding this, because I know no one is paying attention to me but I get weirded out regardless.

Feel the same way Skirkly