solo at the bar?

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  • Leyna Minai
    Leyna Minai Posts: 691
    There's a bar I go to after work a couple times during the week by myself.
    After a while, you start to get to know the other 'regulars' and join in on conversations with them!
    Sometimes the bartenders will start chatting it up too.
    It might be awkward at first but you get used to it!
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  • uninnocent-
    uninnocent- Posts: 5,959
    Leyna Minai wrote:
    There's a bar I go to after work a couple times during the week by myself.
    After a while, you start to get to know the other 'regulars' and join in on conversations with them!
    Sometimes the bartenders will start chatting it up too.
    It might be awkward at first but you get used to it!
    AND they learn your order quick so you get a beer brought to you as soon as you come in!
  • unlost dogs
    unlost dogs Greater Boston Posts: 12,553
    I used to be really shy (stop laughing, 81, it's true) but decided to get over it.

    Mr. Unlost works overnight shifts, and travels a lot, so I enjoy time by myself. But I also like to go out.

    So now I will belly on up to the bar by myself, maybe order dinner or have a beer or three, watch TV, do some posting, read a book, and enjoy people watching.

    I also will go to movies by myself, because Mr. Unlost and I don't have the same taste.

    And I will go to restaurants by myself.

    So I'm either a late-in-life extrovert, or an incredibly pathetic loser.

    :lol: :? :|
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  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,337
    I'm on the road for work all the time and I like to drink so....yeah, do it all the time! :D
    In fact, I almost prefer it :? You meet all kinds of people and it's almost more fun to me. I often eat alone at restaurants and I almost always eat at the bar by myself too.
  • the wolf
    the wolf Posts: 7,027
    81 wrote:
    Post up your number and we will all call you to make you look important

    You would do that for me? Awesome! It's 513-235.......
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  • 81
    81 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    unlost dogs wrote:
    I used to be really shy (stop laughing, 81, it's true) but decided to get over it.

    me too. :P
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  • 81
    81 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    the wolf wrote:
    81 wrote:
    Post up your number and we will all call you to make you look important

    You would do that for me? Awesome! It's 513-235.......


    can i have at least one more

    0000...sorry wrong number
    0002...sorry wrong number
    0003...sorry wrong..ummm..you sound kind of cute
    81 is now off the air

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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    you should hang out at the bar i go to...everybody there knows your name
  • unlost dogs
    unlost dogs Greater Boston Posts: 12,553
    81 wrote:
    the wolf wrote:
    81 wrote:
    Post up your number and we will all call you to make you look important

    You would do that for me? Awesome! It's 513-235.......


    can i have at least one more

    0000...sorry wrong number
    0002...sorry wrong number
    0003...sorry wrong..ummm..you sound kind of cute

    81, I'll start with 9999 and work my way back.

    9999: Hello, is this The Wolf?
    9998: Hello, is this The Wolf?
    9997: Hello, is this The Wolf?
    9998: Hello, is this The Wolf? Oh, sorry, I mixed up the numbers. And "Grrrrrr" right back to you, ma'am.

    etc.
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  • uninnocent-
    uninnocent- Posts: 5,959
    norm wrote:
    you should hang out at the bar i go to...everybody there knows your name
    :thumbup: I've only heard good things.
  • Gary Carter
    Gary Carter Posts: 14,077
    Local dive bar, yes
    Sports bar where hot chicks are gonna be, no. You always need a iceman or need to be iceman
    Ron: I just don't feel like going out tonight
    Sammi: Wanna just break up?

  • kdizzle.delio
    kdizzle.delio Posts: 292
    metsfan wrote:
    Local dive bar, yes
    Sports bar where hot chicks are gonna be, no. You always need a iceman or need to be iceman

    How many women have "lost that loving feeling" while you've been there mets fan lol
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  • Gary Carter
    Gary Carter Posts: 14,077
    kdizzle.delio wrote:
    metsfan wrote:
    Local dive bar, yes
    Sports bar where hot chicks are gonna be, no. You always need a iceman or need to be iceman

    How many women have "lost that loving feeling" while you've been there mets fan lol
    0

    I'm a good iceman and my buddy is a great maverick


    Cool av btw
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    Sammi: Wanna just break up?

  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    unlost dogs wrote:

    And I will go to restaurants by myself.

    So I'm either a late-in-life extrovert, or an incredibly pathetic loser.

    :lol: :? :|

    I'm still incredibly shy, BUT

    I've gone to the movies by myself...

    and restaurants...

    and I've gone to the bar by myself...the bartenders and bouncers all talked to me...and they actually looked out for me as well.

    did ask to play pool and darts with a few guys, never got hit on, or went home with anybody...

    so I assume I was the pathetic loser. :P
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  • rival.
    rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    i've gone solo for lunch a couple times. but nothing more than to put down a burger and a beer or two while watching whats on tv.
  • uninnocent-
    uninnocent- Posts: 5,959
    I know it's not the same, but my friends left the bar a while ago and I'm not ready to leave so I'm having another pint alone. You ate definitely not the only one to go solo and post here.
  • rollings
    rollings unknown Posts: 7,127
    norm wrote:
    you should hang out at the bar i go to...everybody there knows your name

    CLIFF!
  • BLACK35
    BLACK35 Hanover, Ontario Posts: 22,980
    I did it all the time. I moved around alot and I would go to the bar to grab a few drinks and mingle with who ever was around just to try and meet new people. So I have no problem going to the bar myself.
    I don't think there is anything wrong with it, just have to be willing to talk with people or it will be a very boring evening
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  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    Going to the bar by yourself rocks. I alwasy end up in a conversation with the people next to me and have made friends that way. Plus the bartender ends up talking to you and you get to know them and often can get hooked up if you continue to come up there.
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  • carolinabeerguy
    carolinabeerguy Kernersville, NC Posts: 2,517
    I have no problem going to a bar, or anywhere else for that matter, alone. In fact, the wife is out of town so I plan to head out to my local craft beer bar tonight to watch my Tar Heels play. I probably stop by there alone every week or so. No big deal to me.
    I wish I was as fortunate, as fortunate as me.

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