Is Going Out to Dinner Solo Strange?

[TheCroShow]

no problem at all dude. i go out for breakfast with a bunch of my buddies, lunch and dinner with many other friends...and sometimes i just feel like sitting down at a sushi place and eating by myself, nothing wrong with that at all. i'm comfortable with it, and sometimes i just need my own space and quiet time.

*edit* one time i sat alone for lunch, and an attractive girl joined me (because she was also alone!) had a decent conversation and blah blah.

i also agree that it takes a certain person to eat alone. i mean, you have to be comfortable to do so, that takes a degree of confidence.

the people that make fun of others are insecure assholes.

[x2ski]

Although I try to avoid doing it (because I enjoy the company), I don't have a problem with it.

However, whenever I see senior citizens by themselves I feel terrible. It's probably my mind just working overtime, but I just assume that they're eating alone because their significant other has passed on... perhaps they used to sit at that same table...

I think too much, but not about the right things.

[smb394]

No problems with it here. I go out for lunch alone a bunch of times from work, especially if I'm running errands afterwards. The only times I guess I've eaten dinner out alone with actual service was either in school (with a book to study) or at casinos taking a break from p**er (while the friends were still gambooling in the craps pits). It's peaceful.