for the first time in my life...

CHANGEinWAVES

I'm sitting in a sit down restaurant eating by myself:)
I'm trying to break free from my anxieties. It's a little weird but hey means I get all the chips and salsa to myself:D

kcherub

Oooo, I am such a wimp. I don't think I have ever been to a sit-down restaurant by myself. I have gone with my son (even when he was a tiny baby), but I think he counted as another person. I think I would have to have a book or something, so that I didn't feel like people were looking at me and going, "Ah, poor thing."

Good for you. Maybe I will try that to get over it myself. Enjoy the chips and salsa! Yummy!

the wolf

CHANGEinWAVES wrote:

I'm sitting in a sit down restaurant eating by myself:)
I'm trying to break free from my anxieties. It's a little weird but hey means I get all the chips and salsa to myself:D

you just gonna give us a running commentary on your whole day?


how'd the dump go? everything come out okay?

catch22

kcherub wrote:

Oooo, I am such a wimp. I don't think I have ever been to a sit-down restaurant by myself. I have gone with my son (even when he was a tiny baby), but I think he counted as another person. I think I would have to have a book or something, so that I didn't feel like people were looking at me and going, "Ah, poor thing."

Good for you. Maybe I will try that to get over it myself. Enjoy the chips and salsa! Yummy!

i've always found it weird that people seem to think they need to be ashamed of being anywhere in public by themselves. like if you eat in a restaurant or go to a movie on your own, it somehow marks you as a pathetic loser with no friends.

when i'm hungry, i eat. i don't want to waste time trying to track down a friend who is also hungry, has free time, and is ok with whatever restaurant i feel like at the moment.

g under p

Every now and then one has to do things ALL alone.

Peace

mca47

I travel a lot for work and therefore eat by myself a lot. I have no problems with it. I guess I just don't care about what others think...especially knowing that a) I don't know any of them, and even if I did I wouldn't care and b) I will probably never see any of those people again in my life.

Hell, I even go to movies by myself. If nobody else wants to go to a movie I want to see or if they are busy...I'm going either way.

CHANGEinWAVES

the wolf wrote:

you just gonna give us a running commentary on your whole day?


how'd the dump go? everything come out okay?

How'd I know u'd say something like this!!!

Didn't poop yet steve, figured I'd wait till after I ate so I could get it all out at once:)

the wolf

CHANGEinWAVES wrote:

How'd I know u'd say something like this!!!

Didn't poop yet steve, figured I'd wait till after I ate so I could get it all out at once:)

cool, well you dont have to text me this time to let me know.

blackredyellow

The only thing that I don't like about eating alone, is that it is sometimes boring. If I'm traveling for work or whatever, I'll usually eat at the bar and watch whatever game is on, or if it's lunch, bring a newspaper.

I could care less what other people think, but sometimes I just hate sitting there staring into space waiting for my food.

MonsterOfTheMidway

mca47 wrote:

Hell, I even go to movies by myself. If nobody else wants to go to a movie I want to see or if they are busy...I'm going either way.

Hell yeah. Same here. Same with concerts. Sometimes there is a band that no one is into of friends just don't have the money, but I just got to see them.

chadwick

the wolf wrote:

you just gonna give us a running commentary on your whole day?


how'd the dump go? everything come out okay?

the wolf and you changeinwaves are damn funny..
crazy lil shits you two are..

just silly, so silly

i likey

small town beck

Good for you I have no problem going out for a meal or a movie by myself. This year I went to a concert alone for the first time and it was quite fun... well I ended up running into a few guys from my office and I ended up drinking with them but still I had fun

kcherub

catch22 wrote:

i've always found it weird that people seem to think they need to be ashamed of being anywhere in public by themselves. like if you eat in a restaurant or go to a movie on your own, it somehow marks you as a pathetic loser with no friends.

when i'm hungry, i eat. i don't want to waste time trying to track down a friend who is also hungry, has free time, and is ok with whatever restaurant i feel like at the moment.

I didn't say that I didn't go anywhere by myself--I simply said that I had never eaten in a sit-down restaurant by myself. I don't eat out a lot, so most of the time, eating out is a social event.

BTW, when I see someone eating by themselves, I do not think of them as pathetic losers. I admire that and was expressing that in my reply to CIW. It is obviously a good thing for CIW to have done that, so I was showing support.

CHANGEinWAVES

kcherub wrote:

I didn't say that I didn't go anywhere by myself--I simply said that I had never eaten in a sit-down restaurant by myself. I don't eat out a lot, so most of the time, eating out is a social event.

BTW, when I see someone eating by themselves, I do not think of them as pathetic losers. I admire that and was expressing that in my reply to CIW. It is obviously a good thing for CIW to have done that, so I was showing support.

I understood it was support:) and thanks for that!

LONGRD

i've been doing more things alone as of late. i'm kinda like it, you're more free spirited from outside influences. spend most of my life accompanying other people's interests and hobbies, so it's really nice to able to do things i really enjoy. it does feel really weird though.

kcherub

CHANGEinWAVES wrote:

I understood it was support:) and thanks for that!

You are welcome, hon! Did you drink with lunch? Now, doing that alone is another story. LOL

CHANGEinWAVES

kcherub wrote:

You are welcome, hon! Did you drink with lunch? Now, doing that alone is another story. LOL

if unsweetend iced tea counts then yes;)

Whizbang

LongRd. wrote:

i've been doing more things alone as of late. i'm kinda like it, you're more free spirited from outside influences. spend most of my life accompanying other people's interests and hobbies, so it's really nice to able to do things i really enjoy. it does feel really weird though.

I have been doing things alone for quite some time. And I love it. Out to dinner alone, go to shows alone. Yup, there are times I'll meet friends out but typically don't have anyone with me when I head out. Sometimes I go by myself because...well, as people have said....friends aren't around, etc and I feel like going.

There is a downside to it, I must warn. You do get used to the "instant gratification" of just taking off when you want to and can make it difficult to adjust to someone new in your life. The upside is you learn to love your own company.....

CHANGEinWAVES

Whizbang wrote:

The upside is you learn to love your own company.....

this is what I'm hoping for....you'd think at 28 i'd have that already, but nope.

Whizbang

CHANGEinWAVES wrote:

this is what I'm hoping for....you'd think at 28 i'd have that already, but nope.

Not a bad thing, not abnormal....I'm 38 and have really grown to enjoy my life on my own in the last several years. It just hits you one day....you just accept that woman who stares back at you in the mirror....for all her faults, quirks, positive atributes...all of it.


go it alone, you got it, so it goes.....