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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDining out alone...I invited a guy to sit with me at my table..
Too forward?
He was cute, but I was so tired, that I just went back to my hotel room..
Response to HipChick (Original post)
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ThoughtCriminal
(14,049 posts)When you go to a popular restaurant, there are many people waiting to be seated, and most of the tables have empty seats.
On a train, you get placed in the next available seats. It is a wonderful way to meat people and most of the time lots of fun. Sure, sometimes the table companions may be on the dull side, but I've found that to be the exception.
So what I would like to see is more eating establishments offer that as an option. When you leave your name, they ask if you would be willing to join a table. Less waiting, more fun, more profit.
Anybody know of places that do this outside of Amtrak?
Aristus
(66,462 posts)A patron may walk up to a table with available seats and ask: "Is this free?" (In German: "Ist hier noch frei?"
If you're comfortable with it (and most Europeans are; they don't have our personal-space issues), invite them to join you.
Mopar151
(9,997 posts)A fish joint, right on the pier - no sign - just look for the line out the door.
www.nonamerestaurant.com/
petronius
(26,603 posts)If I had a jet, I'd eat breakfast at Samoa and fly to Boston for late lunch at No Name - and probably stop in New Orleans for dinner on the way home...
elleng
(131,106 posts)the maitre d' sat me with a handsome young man (about same age as me at the time.) Definitely deliberate, and definitely worked!
ThoughtCriminal
(14,049 posts)The maitre d' has never seated me with Eva Marie Saint, but I'm not exactly Cary Grant either.
elleng
(131,106 posts)I'm DEFINITELY not Eva Marie Saint!!!
hay rick
(7,639 posts)MiddleFingerMom
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hay rick
(7,639 posts)Tea for two?
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)I don't eat out a lot ever, but I've definitely invited people to join me at bars. The last years, since so many of my friends are coupled up, I'd go out to bars alone (granted, places where I'm a regular and know the staff) and just chat with other customers. I never met a serious girlfriend that way, but made a good few friends.
All that said, this was when I was living in England. It took me years to become that forward - or, as I think now, not shy/paranoid, as most Americans are raised to be.
fbguy_144
(47 posts)geardaddy
(24,931 posts)As long as you were comfortable with it.
hunter
(38,326 posts)Totally random, a crowded place, I was at a table for two with an empty seat, and he asked if the seat was taken.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ballard
So I'd say no, not "too forward."
Random people are always interesting. Everyone has a story.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)Nothing wrong with it.
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,588 posts)I like to think at my age, I could sit down to eat with a woman I didn't know and get along just fine. Mostly 'cause I'm old!