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Re: "Table for one, please"
« Reply #25 on: May 29, 2013, 03:21:32 PM »
I don't like it when a dork sits right next to you at the bar, when many great open seats that aren't adjacent to me are available.

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Re: "Table for one, please"
« Reply #26 on: May 29, 2013, 03:21:51 PM »
Definitely acceptable, especially when dining alone.

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Re: "Table for one, please"
« Reply #27 on: May 29, 2013, 03:23:54 PM »
Did this at the hotel bar/restaurant in Rochester, NY last night. I was excited to have some buffalo wings, beer, and watch non-Royals baseball. The Yankees-Mets game was rain delayed, so they switched to the Royals.  :lol:

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Re: "Table for one, please"
« Reply #28 on: May 29, 2013, 03:43:18 PM »
Will probably grab a beer and dinner at Station tonight, by myself, because I can

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Re: "Table for one, please"
« Reply #29 on: May 29, 2013, 03:43:59 PM »
One thing I like to do when dining alone is order a bottle for the table.

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Re: "Table for one, please"
« Reply #30 on: May 29, 2013, 03:44:14 PM »
If you are still in doubt, it is completely acceptable. Sometimes, when I am really tired, I order room service and 4 or 5 whiskeys and watch a movie- not preferred, but my second option. First option is a nice restaurant on my own and then a bar and grills/dive. Basically, be your own company and have a blast!

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Re: "Table for one, please"
« Reply #31 on: May 29, 2013, 04:06:00 PM »
i recently went to a movie by myself, a scary movie, and there was nobody else in the theater.

great movie. ("the call.")

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Re: "Table for one, please"
« Reply #32 on: May 29, 2013, 04:42:51 PM »
i'm very j rakey about eating alone in a restaurant.  i can't imagine doing so in anything that approaches comfort.
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Re: "Table for one, please"
« Reply #33 on: May 29, 2013, 04:47:46 PM »
i'm very j rakey about eating alone in a restaurant.  i can't imagine doing so in anything that approaches comfort.

i'm unfamiliar with this phrase. what does this mean?

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Re: "Table for one, please"
« Reply #34 on: May 29, 2013, 04:49:08 PM »
I'm not opposed to it, but I've never done it (or went to the movies solo).  I feel like if you're alone then maybe the server feels more of a responsibility to talk to you and get in your business and that is the last thing I want.  If you have people with you, I think they're probably more likely to piss off and stop hassling you all the time.  With company you can also shut them down without so obviously being a dick about it.
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Re: "Table for one, please"
« Reply #35 on: May 29, 2013, 04:50:17 PM »
i'm unfamiliar with this phrase. what does this mean?

awkward, uncomfortable or overthought w. respect to social interactions or public behavior. 
"experienced commanders will simply be smeared and will actually go to the meat."

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Re: "Table for one, please"
« Reply #36 on: May 29, 2013, 04:50:56 PM »
I feel like if you're alone then maybe the server feels more of a responsibility to talk to you and get in your business and that is the last thing I want.

yes, that's exactly the problem.
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Re: "Table for one, please"
« Reply #37 on: May 29, 2013, 04:54:41 PM »
i'm unfamiliar with this phrase. what does this mean?

awkward, uncomfortable or overthought w. respect to social interactions or public behavior.

good definition, but i'd probably replace the "ors" with "ands."

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Re: "Table for one, please"
« Reply #38 on: May 29, 2013, 04:59:05 PM »
what about playing golf solo?
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Re: "Table for one, please"
« Reply #39 on: May 29, 2013, 05:04:27 PM »
I sense a lot of self esteem problems in this thread.


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Re: "Table for one, please"
« Reply #40 on: May 29, 2013, 05:17:41 PM »
what about playing golf solo?

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Re: "Table for one, please"
« Reply #41 on: May 29, 2013, 05:29:26 PM »
I feel like if you're alone then maybe the server feels more of a responsibility to talk to you and get in your business and that is the last thing I want.

yes, that's exactly the problem.

it's only a problem if you allow your server to feel that they need to talk to you.   again, that's your fault, not the server's.


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Re: "Table for one, please"
« Reply #42 on: May 29, 2013, 05:34:12 PM »
I can't think of a single thing that I wouldn't prefer to do alone.

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Re: "Table for one, please"
« Reply #43 on: May 29, 2013, 05:34:19 PM »
I do it all the time.   :thumbsup:

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Re: "Table for one, please"
« Reply #44 on: May 29, 2013, 05:35:21 PM »
I feel like if you're alone then maybe the server feels more of a responsibility to talk to you and get in your business and that is the last thing I want.

yes, that's exactly the problem.

it's only a problem if you allow your server to feel that they need to talk to you.   again, that's your fault, not the server's.

Of course it is, but then maybe you alienate them and they do crap to your food that you would prefer they didn't.  Then you're left to wonder "Did I just insult that pud and is he back there licking my burger?"  Then my dear 'clams you are alone and you are eating a licked burger.  No good for you, no good for me, no good for anybody. 
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Re: "Table for one, please"
« Reply #45 on: May 29, 2013, 05:35:50 PM »
I can't think of a single thing that I wouldn't prefer to do alone.

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Re: "Table for one, please"
« Reply #46 on: May 29, 2013, 05:41:05 PM »
I feel like if you're alone then maybe the server feels more of a responsibility to talk to you and get in your business and that is the last thing I want.

yes, that's exactly the problem.

it's only a problem if you allow your server to feel that they need to talk to you.   again, that's your fault, not the server's.

Of course it is, but then maybe you alienate them and they do crap to your food that you would prefer they didn't.  Then you're left to wonder "Did I just insult that pud and is he back there licking my burger?"  Then my dear 'clams you are alone and you are eating a licked burger.  No good for you, no good for me, no good for anybody. 

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Re: "Table for one, please"
« Reply #47 on: May 29, 2013, 05:41:58 PM »
My god I cannot even fathom how many licked food items you've ingested over the years. 
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Re: "Table for one, please"
« Reply #48 on: May 29, 2013, 06:31:26 PM »
Business its better than sitting in the hotel room....few random hungover Saturdays I'll do it at the bar when friends are still down or not wanting to leave the house.

Kind of weird in Vegas even at the bar but not so bad.

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Re: "Table for one, please"
« Reply #49 on: May 29, 2013, 06:38:15 PM »
what about playing golf solo?

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I'm probably gonna be doing this quite a bit this summer.  I did it on Saturday and shot 5 under on 9 holes. ;)