How not to feel humiliated when dining alone — Page 2

#26

how not to grant others unncecessary power over your own existence

Posted: 1/21/10 at 12:54pm

i think craww would rather sit home and cry than dine alone.

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#27

how not to grant others unncecessary power over your own existence

Posted: 1/21/10 at 12:57pm

Q that is exactly the feeling I got from that article. Only pariahs eat alone! Feel it realize it and then here are some ways to help you from feeling self conscious about it.

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#28

how not to grant others unncecessary power over your own existence

Posted: 1/21/10 at 12:59pm

Usually if I'm alone, I'll pick a table that looks interesting and just join their party. Great way to meet new friends and if done right, free food.

#29

how not to grant others unncecessary power over your own existence

Posted: 1/21/10 at 12:59pm

I must have missed the part in the article where it said it was intended for those with extraordinary anxiousness

I just read the comments as being dismissive of anxiousness in general, though. Probably because the fear of dining alone sounds like a product of extraordinary anxiousness to me. But everything is a gradient, so I'm sure plenty of people experience that on a more shallow level.

i think craww would rather sit home and cry than dine alone.

It's better than sitting at home and being BroadwayWorld's pet hyperbolic conservative troll.

Updated On: 1/21/10 at 12:59 PM

#30

how not to grant others unncecessary power over your own existence

Posted: 1/21/10 at 1:02pm

When I eat alone, I like to keep a pad and pen on the table. Then, while I eat, I openly watch and observe everyone else eating. If they stare back, I pick up the pen and write something on the pad (doesn't matter what.)

#31

how not to grant others unncecessary power over your own existence

Posted: 1/21/10 at 1:03pm

Q, that's hilarious!

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#32

how not to grant others unncecessary power over your own existence

Posted: 1/21/10 at 1:04pm

it's ok, craww, eventually you'll find some people who are as unliked as you adn then you can go out together and talk all the cool people who are not you.

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r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.

...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty

pray to st. jude

i'm a sonic reducer

he was the gimmicky sort

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#33

how not to grant others unncecessary power over your own existence

Posted: 1/21/10 at 1:08pm

it's ok, craww, eventually you'll find some people who are as unliked as you adn then you can go out together and talk all the cool people who are not you.

Nice sentence structure. I can't wait to "talk all the cool people".

#34

how not to grant others unncecessary power over your own existence

Posted: 1/21/10 at 2:17pm

grammar nazis are notoriously unpopular, but then you already knew that. didn'cha?

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r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.

...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty

pray to st. jude

i'm a sonic reducer

he was the gimmicky sort

fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective

#35

how not to grant others unncecessary power over your own existence

Posted: 1/21/10 at 2:33pm

grammar nazis are notoriously unpopular, but then you already knew that. didn'cha?

Oh, I'm no grammar nazi. But if you're going to show a lack of imagination in recycling insults more appropriate to Cruel_Sandwich, than there's no reason for me to put any creativity into what I lob back.

It's okay, I know you're only lashing out at me because your toothless mascot position here at BroadwayWorld has to rankle occasionally. When people increasingly find your most outrageous statements to be bordering on adorable, then you have to find new places to channel your frustrated internet rage.

#36

how not to grant others unncecessary power over your own existence

Posted: 1/21/10 at 3:03pm

like i told you in the pms, craww, not interested. move on.

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r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.

...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty

pray to st. jude

i'm a sonic reducer

he was the gimmicky sort

fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective

#37

how not to grant others unncecessary power over your own existence

Posted: 1/21/10 at 3:05pm

#38

how not to grant others unncecessary power over your own existence

Posted: 1/21/10 at 3:31pm

By "Pet" troll, you DO mean papa is the troll we'd most like to pet?

#39

how not to grant others unncecessary power over your own existence

Posted: 1/21/10 at 5:17pm

What happened here ... I was enjoying this post .. then it all went awry!

#40

how not to grant others unncecessary power over your own existence

Posted: 1/21/10 at 5:26pm

When I eat alone, I like to keep a pad and pen on the table. Then, while I eat, I openly watch and observe everyone else eating. If they stare back, I pick up the pen and write something on the pad (doesn't matter what.)

I'm totally stealing this maneuver when I dine alone next time.

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#41

how not to grant others unncecessary power over your own existence

Posted: 1/21/10 at 5:51pm

Children, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

#42

how not to grant others unncecessary power over your own existence

Posted: 1/21/10 at 6:21pm

If dining alone is the cause for this epidemic of acute anxiety and paranoia, I suggest...not going to restaurants alone. Or abstinence. Stop eating.

Seriously, what a ridiculous article. Are people often forced into this situation on a regular basis? My guess would be no. If you think eating alone is so horribly humiliating, yet you choose to do it anyway, then HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I will point and laugh at you from across the room. And I'll do it in a way that you'll never even see me. Keep that in mind the next time you walk into Broadway Joe's.

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#43

how not to grant others unncecessary power over your own existence

Posted: 1/21/10 at 6:29pm

In order to avoid the dining alone humiliation, I just utilize the drive thru. Nothing beats eating a Big Mac in the car.

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#44

how not to grant others unncecessary power over your own existence

Posted: 1/21/10 at 6:39pm

Not even a Baconater, danmag?

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#45

how not to grant others unncecessary power over your own existence

Posted: 1/21/10 at 6:51pm

And when I want seconds, I just throw on a mask and drive through again.

#46

how not to grant others unncecessary power over your own existence

Posted: 1/21/10 at 7:02pm

"Not even a Baconater, danmag?"

The Baconater is just hangover food - not fine dining like the Big Mac!

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"This show had the WORST magnets on Broadway!"

#47

how not to grant others unncecessary power over your own existence

Posted: 1/21/10 at 7:12pm

Oh dear God. When a Big Mac is fine dining I fear for you my dear....LMAO!

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#48

how not to grant others unncecessary power over your own existence

Posted: 1/21/10 at 7:13pm

I was really hungry so I got a Big Mac, a McChicken, a McRib Combo (Super size it- they still HAVE the extra-large fry cup they just don't advertise it, you have to really demand it) and that two-pies-for-a-dollar deal. When I got to the window, the cashier asked what kind of drink and I said "Diet Coke" and she LAUGHED at me. She handed it out to me and said "Here's your SUPER SIZED Big Mac Meal, McRib, McChicken, Two Pies and a DIET Coke, sir!" with a really bitchy voice. The girl working the fry machine laughed and looked at me. I was so humilated.

Is there some sort of advice book on how to order lots of food in a drive through and not feel like a pig?

#49

how not to grant others unncecessary power over your own existence

Posted: 1/21/10 at 7:18pm

Joe, pretend like you are talking to your co-workers on your bluetooth to find out what they want while you are ordering.

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KFTC!!!!!

#50

how not to grant others unncecessary power over your own existence

Posted: 1/21/10 at 8:38pm

Hell, you can call Outback, Applebees, Ruby Tuesday and Houlihans and they will all bring your food out to your car. Even McDonald's delivers in Manhattan. There's no need to eat alone if it freaks you out.

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