I can understand exactly what you're going through. But I could never go in a restaurant to eat alone. And since I can't cook, all I eat is junk food, or nothing.

I love to dine alone! I also love to fly alone... I toss my feet up in the chair across from me and read the paper or something...

Unfortunatly I am never alone for long... Half the staff ends up hanging out at my table all night.... BIZARRE! ...and I can be quite rude and curt when I want my space but no matter.... they buzz about me til I give in!

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

That happens every time I go shopping alone- there is always someone that has to engage in a conversation with me.

shanti0608 said:

Me too... and I have two very distict sides by nature... When i am on.. I am on.. when I want solitude I mean it! Not every moment needs to be filled with a sound byte.

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

We must look approachable??

shanti0608 said:

I would gather so yep! Even if I dont see myself that way!

CarrieMpls said:

Imago said:

I love to dine alone! I also love to fly alone... I toss my feet up in the chair across from me and read the paper or something...

Unfortunatly I am never alone for long... Half the staff ends up hanging out at my table all night.... BIZARRE! ...and I can be quite rude and curt when I want my space but no matter.... they buzz about me til I give in!

I haven't been cooking my own food much since I got back from vacation simply becuase I'm tired and am not ready to get back in the swing of things JUST yet, so I've been going out and eating alot this week.

Tonight I went to TGI Fridays and had a soup and salad combo. It just struck me. I'm eating dinner alone, and the waitress is extra nice to me.... Like "feel sorry for the single loser" nice

It felt really odd. I felt like picking up my cellphone and dialing someone just to make it look like I wasn't this sorry loser or something which NEVER EVER crosses my mind. I normally view being single is this liberating thing that allows me to do everything and anything I want to whenever I want to. But I just realized tonight that while this is still true, I'm doing anything and everything I want to do .... alone.

I started feeling... I don't know... inadequate. Strange. Sort of like a misfit.

Is this is a normal feeling when dining alone? I don't get that when I watch movies by myself.


Any of you dine alone regularly? Do you ever feel weird? Has growing older changed this attitude any?

Imago said:

I don't have this problem as I travel with an entourage.

Imago said:

I don't have this problem as I travel with an entourage.

ArielB said:

Oh he hates phones you can forget about a call!

Any of you dine alone regularly? Do you ever feel weird? Has growing older changed this attitude any?

I haven't been cooking my own food much since I got back from vacation simply becuase I'm tired and am not ready to get back in the swing of things JUST yet, so I've been going out and eating alot this week.

Tonight I went to TGI Fridays and had a soup and salad combo. It just struck me. I'm eating dinner alone, and the waitress is extra nice to me.... Like "feel sorry for the single loser" nice

It felt really odd. I felt like picking up my cellphone and dialing someone just to make it look like I wasn't this sorry loser or something which NEVER EVER crosses my mind. I normally view being single is this liberating thing that allows me to do everything and anything I want to whenever I want to. But I just realized tonight that while this is still true, I'm doing anything and everything I want to do .... alone.

I started feeling... I don't know... inadequate. Strange. Sort of like a misfit.

Is this is a normal feeling when dining alone? I don't get that when I watch movies by myself.


Any of you dine alone regularly? Do you ever feel weird? Has growing older changed this attitude any?

Imago said:

Yess! I have an active culinary life at home with all sorts of folks-

but honestly, when I go out I actually LOVE dining alone!

It's like it's that special sort of 'me' time where I don't have to worry about guests, or who ate enough, or if they liked what I cooked. I can just sit back and enjoy a meal just.for.me. - and not have to listen to anybody talk! I look at it as a luxury, actually .

...and who the flip cares what the waiter/waitress thinks? It's not like they pay your bills or your salary that allows you to eat in their restaurant (and in turn pay THEIR salaries) in the first place

i feel sorry for you for eating at a TGIFridays!

I eat alone all the time AND go to the movies alone too!! It's better than being at home alone...

I haven't been cooking my own food much since I got back from vacation simply becuase I'm tired and am not ready to get back in the swing of things JUST yet, so I've been going out and eating alot this week.

Tonight I went to TGI Fridays and had a soup and salad combo. It just struck me. I'm eating dinner alone, and the waitress is extra nice to me.... Like "feel sorry for the single loser" nice

It felt really odd. I felt like picking up my cellphone and dialing someone just to make it look like I wasn't this sorry loser or something which NEVER EVER crosses my mind. I normally view being single is this liberating thing that allows me to do everything and anything I want to whenever I want to. But I just realized tonight that while this is still true, I'm doing anything and everything I want to do .... alone.

I started feeling... I don't know... inadequate. Strange. Sort of like a misfit.

Is this is a normal feeling when dining alone? I don't get that when I watch movies by myself.


Any of you dine alone regularly? Do you ever feel weird? Has growing older changed this attitude any?

Welcom to my world!!!

As an only child it doesn't bother me. I'm good company. I usually take a book.


M

Imago said:

My advice to you: order the brie and comment to the waitress about how it tastes like your jizz. Then ask if she likes brie.

Any of you dine alone regularly? Do you ever feel weird? Has growing older changed this attitude any?