Eating Alone?
02-10-2008, 12:45 PM
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Eating Alone?
I can't go anywhere and eat by myself it just doesnt seem right.
be it a posh restaraunt for dinner, or a bigmac and fries at lunch.
if i'm going out for lunch and i'm on my own i'll have to just grab a sandwich and bring it back in the office.
anyone else like this?
be it a posh restaraunt for dinner, or a bigmac and fries at lunch.
if i'm going out for lunch and i'm on my own i'll have to just grab a sandwich and bring it back in the office.
anyone else like this?
02-10-2008, 12:49 PM
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I'm working in London tomorrow, you by the lunch and I'll be there Jim 
I know what you mean about eating alone though, does make me a feel like a bit of a loner
I know what you mean about eating alone though, does make me a feel like a bit of a loner
02-10-2008, 12:55 PM
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Ate out a few times on my own when i first moved down south...felt like a right gimp!
It's ok in Maccy D's, but felt real odd and slightly sad when havin a pub lunch or proper meal.
It's ok in Maccy D's, but felt real odd and slightly sad when havin a pub lunch or proper meal.
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02-10-2008, 12:56 PM
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Going to the cinema alone is the same.
You feel like such a saddo, like all the couples are looking at you and laughing.
Thankfully I can usually con the wife into watching some of the stuff she wouldnt otherwise like (the new Rambo was a good one).
You feel like such a saddo, like all the couples are looking at you and laughing.
Thankfully I can usually con the wife into watching some of the stuff she wouldnt otherwise like (the new Rambo was a good one
).
02-10-2008, 12:57 PM
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when i took the gf out for valentines tea there was a guy there eating on his own, the girlfriend felt right sorry for him wanted to invite him over
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02-10-2008, 01:13 PM
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Table for 1
Tho i had a mate who made it into a pulling art.
He pop out the pub on a weekend to go to the bank, so he said and be gone for a hour or 2. used to troll the restarunts for groups of birds having a meal, pop in table for 1, and strike up a sob story conv with them all, and Jackpot
Tho i had a mate who made it into a pulling art.
He pop out the pub on a weekend to go to the bank, so he said and be gone for a hour or 2. used to troll the restarunts for groups of birds having a meal, pop in table for 1, and strike up a sob story conv with them all, and Jackpot
02-10-2008, 01:15 PM
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i eat out on my own, i been to the cenima on my own, i can do lots of things on my own
but i'm of the same onion as chip in that it's much preferable to have company, but when i was young free and single, a free for a year cimena voucher meant i would still have to pay for someone else to come with me to watch a film, so i did the honerable thing and went on my own 3 tiems a week
but how can you feel silly eating a sandwich on your own jim
but i'm of the same onion as chip in that it's much preferable to have company, but when i was young free and single, a free for a year cimena voucher meant i would still have to pay for someone else to come with me to watch a film, so i did the honerable thing and went on my own 3 tiems a week
but how can you feel silly eating a sandwich on your own jim
02-10-2008, 01:17 PM
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Nonsense, I do it all the time..I have no friends 
However the waitresses give you the symphathy vote so everyones a winner
No if honest I have a few times and have no problem with it in the slightest.
Last week i was gagging for a Pizza Express so did some shopping, then in I went for a lunchtime treat.
Pit stopped in W H Smiths to choose a magazine though first, browsed through PF then purchased FastFord 
However the waitresses give you the symphathy vote so everyones a winner
No if honest I have a few times and have no problem with it in the slightest.
Last week i was gagging for a Pizza Express so did some shopping, then in I went for a lunchtime treat.
Pit stopped in W H Smiths to choose a magazine though first, browsed through PF
then purchased FastFord
02-10-2008, 01:19 PM
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cant you take the missus or dont mcds have disabled access ??? lol 
i always pop to waitrose and buy some lunch and eat at my desk just easier, plus dont have to look a loser sitting on my own lol
i always pop to waitrose and buy some lunch and eat at my desk just easier, plus dont have to look a loser sitting on my own lol
02-10-2008, 01:21 PM
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Nonsense, I do it all the time..I have no friends
However the waitresses give you the symphathy vote so everyones a winner
No if honest I have a few times and have no problem with it in the slightest.
Last week i was gagging for a Pizza Express so did some shopping, then in I went for a lunchtime treat.
Pit stopped in W H Smiths to choose a magazine though first, browsed through PF then purchased FastFord
However the waitresses give you the symphathy vote so everyones a winner
No if honest I have a few times and have no problem with it in the slightest.
Last week i was gagging for a Pizza Express so did some shopping, then in I went for a lunchtime treat.
Pit stopped in W H Smiths to choose a magazine though first, browsed through PF
then purchased FastFord
02-10-2008, 03:17 PM
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Depends on the situation. I wouldn't go into a Chinese/Indian restaurant etc on my own and order a meal. But I would pop into a pub for a bar meal during the day on my own or to Maccy D's etc if I was on my lunch at work - Just take a newspaper with me and read that
02-10-2008, 03:37 PM
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I love my own company.
Usually sit at my desk with a sandwich, but i've seen myself go an buy a paper, sit in a cafe for half an hour, read the paper an grab some food.
Or arranging to meet mates at the pub on a saturday afternoon for the football, occasionally I'll nip in an hour early, with a paper, get a pint in an chill out, don't see nothing wrong with it tbh, i'm my own best friend
Cinema etc is a different thing, that IS a social event, imo.
Usually sit at my desk with a sandwich, but i've seen myself go an buy a paper, sit in a cafe for half an hour, read the paper an grab some food.
Or arranging to meet mates at the pub on a saturday afternoon for the football, occasionally I'll nip in an hour early, with a paper, get a pint in an chill out, don't see nothing wrong with it tbh, i'm my own best friend
Cinema etc is a different thing, that IS a social event, imo.
02-10-2008, 05:33 PM
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Same here, The amount of times I have nipped out on my bike for lunch or a coffee on the other side of town/county/country just so I can be alone is unbelievable, There are some people I know who cant go an hour without having to either phone or text someone as they feel lost by themselves.
02-10-2008, 05:37 PM
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I prefer to go with people from the office and do usually. Unfortunately if I'm on site visits my lunch normally ends up bein McDonalds, KFC etc and I feel like a Billy no Mates so get it to take away and eat in the car.
02-10-2008, 05:49 PM
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Same here, The amount of times I have nipped out on my bike for lunch or a coffee on the other side of town/county/country just so I can be alone is unbelievable, There are some people I know who cant go an hour without having to either phone or text someone as they feel lost by themselves.
Couldn't agree more. Should also add at this point, I do have loads of friends and a girlfriend
Always someone i could go for a meal/pissup/civil pint with, just sometimes being myself is as enjoyable.
02-10-2008, 06:08 PM
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I nearly always eat alone - seeing as I work on my own and live on my own
If it's lunch at work, then unless I am in the office that day, I'll be out in my van so it's either a sandwich in the van, or stop in MacDonalds/whatever. Don't bother me at all sitting there on my jacks - why should it?
That said, I don't go out to resturantes or pubs and order food and sit on my own and eat - I usually have friends company on those occasions...
But a working lunch is completely different. sure it's nice to have someone there from time to time to talk to, but most of the time I just wanna stop, eat, carry on working so I can go home - and eat alone... Again
If it's lunch at work, then unless I am in the office that day, I'll be out in my van so it's either a sandwich in the van, or stop in MacDonalds/whatever. Don't bother me at all sitting there on my jacks - why should it?
That said, I don't go out to resturantes or pubs and order food and sit on my own and eat - I usually have friends company on those occasions...
But a working lunch is completely different. sure it's nice to have someone there from time to time to talk to, but most of the time I just wanna stop, eat, carry on working so I can go home - and eat alone... Again
02-10-2008, 06:15 PM
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I nearly always eat alone - seeing as I work on my own and live on my own
If it's lunch at work, then unless I am in the office that day, I'll be out in my van so it's either a sandwich in the van, or stop in MacDonalds/whatever. Don't bother me at all sitting there on my jacks - why should it?
That said, I don't go out to resturantes or pubs and order food and sit on my own and eat - I usually have friends company on those occasions...
But a working lunch is completely different. sure it's nice to have someone there from time to time to talk to, but most of the time I just wanna stop, eat, carry on working so I can go home - and eat alone... Again
If it's lunch at work, then unless I am in the office that day, I'll be out in my van so it's either a sandwich in the van, or stop in MacDonalds/whatever. Don't bother me at all sitting there on my jacks - why should it?
That said, I don't go out to resturantes or pubs and order food and sit on my own and eat - I usually have friends company on those occasions...
But a working lunch is completely different. sure it's nice to have someone there from time to time to talk to, but most of the time I just wanna stop, eat, carry on working so I can go home - and eat alone... Again
02-10-2008, 06:16 PM
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