Do you mind going to a restaurant by yourself?

• ZWICK 4 PREZ

  

  A lot of mornings before work, I'll stop to get breakfast. I just read the paper, eat breakfast, and head on to work. A friend of mine thinks that's crazy that I'll go to a restaurant alone. She says she would be too embarrassed to eat by herself.
  I've never thought anything of it. I see people eating alone all the time. Is this some sort of social faux pas I don't know of?
• darbypitcher22

  

  No, not at all. I do it regularly when I'm at school. For some reason my fellow students don't frequent the local taverns for good grub like I do on weekends.
• FatHobbit

  

  I do it fairly often, but I also have friends who think it's crazy. They'll go to the drive thru and then sit in the parking lot and eat by themselves. (I don't see how that's any different. They aren't really invisible in the parking lot. )
• osudarby08

  

  a post from zwick followed by a post from darbypitcher??? no. way.
• SportsAndLady

  

  There's just too many good things that can be said about the first 2 posts of this thread...
• osudarby08

  

  but for real, I dont like going to restaurants alone it just seems awkward and I feel rushed to eat.
• Fab4Runner

  

  I have eaten at fast food restaurants alone but never anywhere else.
• ZWICK 4 PREZ

  

  I'll be driving to North Carolina tomorrow and I'll stop at the Bob Evans In Kanawha City, WV like usual and eat alone like usual. It just doesn't seem like a big deal to me.
• fortfan

  SportsAndLady wrote: There's just too many good things that can be said about the first 2 posts of this thread...

  Followed by a comment from you....
  
  I eat alone in restaurants quite often for lunch. I see nothing wrong with it.
• queencitybuckeye

  There are people who can barely stand to be alone for five minutes. I like people and love a few, but I've very comfortable with my own company.
• SportsAndLady

  

  fortfan wrote:

  SportsAndLady wrote: There's just too many good things that can be said about the first 2 posts of this thread...

  Followed by a comment from you....
  
  I eat alone in restaurants quite often for lunch. I see nothing wrong with it.

  Wrong! It was followed by a comment from Fathobbit...you fail.
  
  And also, you see nothing wrong with it, because you are in loser denial.
• wes_mantooth

  

  I don't go to restaurants alone, but I will go to the movies by myself....people say that makes me a loser.
• SportsAndLady

  

  Nah..goin to a movie by yourself is legit.
• bucks36

  

  I guess if you have no friends there is nothing wrong with it.
• bigdaddy2003

  

  wes_mantooth wrote: I don't go to restaurants alone, but I will go to the movies by myself....people say that makes me a loser.

  lol for years I would never go to a movie by myself because I thought I would look like a loser but I started going by myself and have noticed plenty of others who do it.
• LJ

  

  I'll do breakfast by myself, fast food by myself, and eating dinner at a bar by myself.
• v_falcons

  I have Mondays off usually, so that's my day to run errands, etc...so I do tend to eat alone somewhere..I'll either sit at the bar area.. I generally will take the paper, magazine, latop etc..if I dont, then I feel really weird..
• v_falcons

  also, I have never, and will never watch a movie alone..Not sure why that's so much different for me than just eating somewhere..but it is.
• royal_k

  

  I"ve eaten by myself quite a few times and don't have a problem with it. Can't say I've ever been to a movie by myself, unless porn sites count.
• wes_mantooth

  

  royal_k wrote: I"ve eaten myself quite a few times and don't have a problem with it.

  odd, but whatever.
• iclfan2

  

  I've never watched a movie by myself, but have eaten out alone while on business or at a fast food restaurant, however I wouldn't make a habit out of it.
• futbol4ever

  Love it. Of course, of I had any friends I probably wouldn't do it as often.
• Mr. 300

  

  Do it all the time. When you're in sales and on the road all day, you don't have much choice.
• Tim Tebow

  I do it alot on lunch breaks, but only at like arbys, mcdonalds or subway. would never go to a nice sit down restuarant alone.
• royal_k

  

  wes_mantooth wrote:

  royal_k wrote: I"ve eaten myself quite a few times and don't have a problem with it.

  odd, but whatever.

  lol I see what you did....vag