I Get Sad When I See Peoples Eating Alone :-(

[JohnXDoe]

I'm not sure why it affects me so much, but if I see someone who's maybe a bit homely or weird looking eating alone in the cafe where I work, I get sad for them. I automatically think they're one of those people who doesn't have any friends and lives alone in a crappy apartment, working at a minimum wage job for the rest of their life. Probably comes in to "treat" themselves every once in awhile, and usually orders the cheapest thing on the menu. Then they sit alone and try to really enjoy themselves :/

Ugh, I'm kind of getting down just thinking about it. This chubby bearded guy in sweats and a baseball cap came in today for the third time in a month and he had a plastic shopping bag with him. He sat down and pulled out multiple boxes of hockey cards from the bag, where he began to open them and write down info about the cards. I watched him for 30 minutes or so then couldn't stand it anymore and went to talk to him. I found out he likes to collect hockey cards and trade them online, as well as sell them on eBay. He had an order of mozzarella sticks in front of him, and later on he dropped one on the floor, picked it up, and ate it :(

Ffuu...does anyone else feel this way, or am I just a total pushover? I saw a kid walk past the cafe last week with a bag full of McDonalds, and he dropped his bag...spilling his burgers and fries on the sidewalk. He started to cry, and since I was working the cash register at the time I ran out and gave him $10.00 to buy some more. Even then I couldn't get it out of my head for a week

Come on MX, I could use some cheering up or something. I'm still in an ok mood, but it's more of a melancholy/tragic mood or something

"Alone" people....why? :upset:

[wartomods]

Thats my life, wuahahah...
talking seriously: i feel you

[asdf]

I eat alone in the cafeteria at school frequently. I don't really have friends in my dorm this year because in became the "athelete's dorm" this year, so there's not much of anyone I relate to here. And I don't call friends because generally when I have time to eat, it's just a small window between classes and they're in all likelyhood currently in class.

It doesn't bother me. I'm looking for food not conversation.

[huxtaposition]

i do too

but at the same time i eat alone frequently and i'm just having a good time eating something. so these people that get me feeling down are probably just doing the same

[<3<3<3]

If they were lonely they would talk to people probably.

My great uncle would always go out to eat alone and just talk it up and flirt with the waitresses. He was 80 something though.

[DBoons Ghost]

I am totally numb to derelicts. People who eat alone are common here in NYC with so many travelling salesman and transplants from their dull mundane home towns.

I barely notice them anymore.

[smith_]

i dont eat

[Against Miik!]

Whenever I eat alone I make sure I have a book and a pencil with me so it looks like I'm eating alone because I'm trying to get some work done.

[LostChild]

I've never eaten alone in public before,
because it would mean Id have to pay for the meal.

[Already_Taken]

i don't like it when people watch me eat, and talking while eating is never really possible for me so i don't mind.

[gloop]

eating alone is the best

[EightMilesHigh]

I do most stuff by myself. I go to the movies by myself, I go to lunch by myself, I go shopping by myself, hell, every weekday except Wednesday (when I have guitar lessons) I'm at home in my pajamas listening to music or watching movies or reading by myself. It's not that I prefer it, it's just that I accept it.

[Already_Taken]

i prefer it. having a hundred friends doesn't seem legit to me. like you can't have 100 friends and be a good friend to all of them at the same time.

[LostChild]

I wish I was cool with everyone in the world. I wish they all had my back, not that they'd ever need to because everyone would cool with me so there'd be no problems.

I still wish everybody had my back

[Already_Taken]

i'd have ur back, cause in the end, we both post on the same forum

[LostChild]

This is the only forum I've ever posted on. I never posted on any other one because it would make me, you know, some one that posts on an internet forum.

Sputnik is in a league of its own though i guess.

[sweboy]

Hey LC, we will always have your back.

Sputnik will always have your back.

[FIGHTCRIMEALLTHETIME]

ts save your sympathy for your own pathetic self im sure most of those people are perfectly content with themselves

[LostChild]

I feel like I can start **** with anyone now.

But would you ride with me even when **** got too real?

[Skyler]

I eat by myself inbetween classes all the time. It's not that big of a deal.

[Already_Taken]

dog, we post on mx dog why u gotta ask questions like that?

[sweboy]

**** dog

[masscows]

If they were lonely they would talk to people probably.


not if they're shy derp

[Reaganista]

i dont like eating alone or with ppl much both have disadvantages

[asdf]

i dont like eating alone or with ppl much both have disadvantages

ya like they involve eating

[Shell]

lonely people gotta eat too!

[JohnXDoe]

<3 :)

[Jude]

It doesn't bother me in a lot of situations but if it's in a restaurant and someone's eating alone, that makes me really really sad. Like, I get broken up over that in a way I don't over just about anything else. It's really weird. Kind of ruins my meal too.

[fatkidzonmopedz]

i hate eating alone in public cuz it looks like i have no friends or life.

[SugarCoatedSour]

I'm not sure why it affects me so much, but if I see someone who's maybe a bit homely or weird looking eating alone in the cafe where I work, I get sad for them. I automatically think they're one of those people who doesn't have any friends and lives alone in a crappy apartment, working at a minimum wage job for the rest of their life. Probably comes in to "treat" themselves every once in awhile, and usually orders the cheapest thing on the menu. Then they sit alone and try to really enjoy themselves :/

Ugh, I'm kind of getting down just thinking about it. This chubby bearded guy in sweats and a baseball cap came in today for the third time in a month and he had a plastic shopping bag with him. He sat down and pulled out multiple boxes of hockey cards from the bag, where he began to open them and write down info about the cards. I watched him for 30 minutes or so then couldn't stand it anymore and went to talk to him. I found out he likes to collect hockey cards and trade them online, as well as sell them on eBay. He had an order of mozzarella sticks in front of him, and later on he dropped one on the floor, picked it up, and ate it :(

Ffuu...does anyone else feel this way, or am I just a total pushover? I saw a kid walk past the cafe last week with a bag full of McDonalds, and he dropped his bag...spilling his burgers and fries on the sidewalk. He started to cry, and since I was working the cash register at the time I ran out and gave him $10.00 to buy some more. Even then I couldn't get it out of my head for a week

Come on MX, I could use some cheering up or something. I'm still in an ok mood, but it's more of a melancholy/tragic mood or something

"Alone" people....why? :upset:

Damn you, you know I was just telling my girlfriend about this same strange feeling I get. Some people are just more empathetic, in that it correlates their perception of other people or pets or personified objects.

I've felt that feeling ever since I was young. I could cry for this pitiful world and it's inhabitants. I guess it most of all relates to our inability to properly reach out and express yourself, deep down you feel like everyone really does think that "#1" is the only one you gotta look out for...

[Chaindrive]

If I pass a person who is eating alone (and I'm eating alone as well), if they look up and smile, I'll ask to join them. Same if someone passes me and I'm eating alone and they ask to join me.

Hell, I pick up hitchers if they look like they're struggling and I've never had a problem having a conversation with them.

[McP3000]

i prefer it. having a hundred friends doesn't seem legit to me. like you can't have 100 friends and be a good friend to all of them at the same time.
lol somebody is lonely

I wish I was cool with everyone in the world. I wish they all had my back, not that they'd ever need to because everyone would cool with me so there'd be no problems.

I still wish everybody had my back
i gotcha back but you best to watch front
because its the niggas that front that be pullin stunts

[SugarCoatedSour]

Crazy

[Already_Taken]

Damn you, you know I was just telling my girlfriend about this same strange feeling I get. Some people are just more empathetic, in that it correlates their perception of other people or pets or personified objects.



just because someone's eating alone doesn't mean they're lonely nor does it mean they are eating alone because they have to. it's an insecure soul who can't be seen in public alone.

mcp i'm a little lonely but i'm mackin on girls every day tryin to get me a girlfriend thanks for lookin' out for me.

[Pop music sucks]

It doesn't really bother me all that much when I eat alone. It's just content, quiet, and cause for introspection.

:smoke:

[ToXiCvEnOm_666]

i would eat with u rory and i dont care who saw and we would fall in love in the cafeteria

[adb]

ToXiCvEnOm_666

[JonG]

you know that kid used the 10 dollars elsewhere

[JohnXDoe]

well hopefully he bought a dimebag or somethin' then. he was already a chubby little bastard

i should say idk why i feel like that. i think it has more to do with the person and how i observe them

i live alone and am alone a lot. so it doesn't bother me. i walk down the street from where i live and have coffee, a bite to eat, sometimes i go to the cigar lounge and have a smoke and a drink. talk to some people. i'm a happy go lucky dude

but a lot of people i see out and about (and eating) alone don't seem like that. the guy who comes into the place i work...just seems sad. and there he is eating cheese sticks off the floor. and the fat kid crying over a bag of spilled burgers...

...oh the humanity :(

[viciouscycle]

That's satan trying to pull you down

[Crapdragoon]

johnxdoe...WHAT THE **** is wrong with you?


let these people squander there miserable little lives away as they do, i dont understand why you sweat such small stuff

[Fuqueue]

Because he's a human being and he has compassion. There's nothing wrong with that.

I feel sorry for people a bit too easily sometimes. There's nothing sadder than a kid spilling his favourite food.. I guess it's the idea of someone looking forward to something and then being totally disappointed, and it's like, so much worse for a kid because they get all excited about everything.

Often people end up lonely because people don't have the time for them, and I guess after long enough they start to get 'left behind' by their friends and family. What makes it worse is that the longer you're lonely for, the less confidence you have to go out and make friends again. It's like a catch 22. Some times just taking five minutes to have a conversation with someone can really make their day tho.

[ToXiCvEnOm_666]

i think its cute when kids like ice cream

[adb]

compassion is for losers

WHO CARES

SO WHAT

[Fuqueue]

That's exactly what Pol Pot would've said. Sure is a shame there aren't more people like you..

[Jay Link]

I sometimes prefer eating alone. A few years ago I was in West Hollywood eating alone at Madeo on Beverly Boulevard and as I was finishing up my meal, Jack Nicholson walks up and says " Hey, can I buy you a drink buddy? He was alone too and waiting for his car & driver. He had a whiskey with a water chaser and I had a Jack Daniels straight. We shot the breeze for about 5 minutes and he took off.

[Chaindrive]

I went to a drugstore cafe in Key West for breakfast and didn't bring my glasses and a nice man eating alone at a table (I was at the counter) offered me his so I could read the menu. That was awesome.

[SugarCoatedSour]

just because someone's eating alone doesn't mean they're lonely nor does it mean they are eating alone because they have to. it's an insecure soul who can't be seen in public alone.

mcp i'm a little lonely but i'm mackin on girls every day tryin to get me a girlfriend thanks for lookin' out for me.

I didn't say that. I'm thinking more in terms of being able to relate or being humbled by that perception of someone.

[SugarCoatedSour]

Where the hell is it that you guys live. I'd feel awkward if any of that happened to me, only in that I'd never expect it to. People where I live just kind of keep a 3 foot minimum distance between each other and rapidly glance to and fro all the while trying to preserve their escapist mentality.

[Chaindrive]

Well, in Key West, everyone talks to each other.

In Arizona everyone talks to each other.

[Mr. Ron]

I'd much rather be alone when eating

[Already_Taken]

Where the hell is it that you guys live. I'd feel awkward if any of that happened to me, only in that I'd never expect it to. People where I live just kind of keep a 3 foot minimum distance between each other and rapidly glance to and fro all the while trying to preserve their escapist mentality.

texas bro. and when i lived in GA it was similar. southern hospitality yo

[iliketoplaydrums10111]

When on campus I usually eat alone because it's only a small window between classes I gotta fill up quick. w/e idc, I'm content with my life so it doesn't bother me

[Already_Taken]

that's not really weird on campus, not like it matters cause you're content and it doesn't bother you.

i think i've taken my earphones out maybe 3 times all semester to talk to people on campus, the rest of the time i'm doing something or going home.

[Pop music sucks]

Where the hell is it that you guys live. I'd feel awkward if any of that happened to me, only in that I'd never expect it to. People where I live just kind of keep a 3 foot minimum distance between each other and rapidly glance to and fro all the while trying to preserve their escapist mentality.There's an interesting (and logical) reason why things like that happen. A person is far more inclined to help a stranger if they were shown kindness by a stranger beforehand. This sort of set-up is cyclical. Oxytocin is believed to have a great influence in placing trust in others.

[Tillius]

There was an old guy at work today who came in being pushed in his wheel chair by a Dart bus lady. I pushed him to his table and then he ate alone. In between eating and waiting for somebody to come get him he was there for about two hours by himself, and I really felt bad for him and felt inclined to talk to him. I didn't give a **** that he only tipped me two dollars I just wanted to give him company.

Nobody else has ever really bothered me being by themselves but something about this guy did it.

[(*The Noonward Race*)]

If they were lonely they would talk to people probably.

My great uncle would always go out to eat alone and just talk it up and flirt with the waitresses. He was 80 something though.then how could they be lonely

if they have and act on this impetus

[(*The Noonward Race*)]

also didn't nacho make this thread before or post

[Already_Taken]

quite possibly

[(*The Noonward Race*)]

yeah he did i remember but it wasnt the exact same thing tho which is why i was curious about it since its a jxd thread

[adb]

I ate alone today

YEAH BIG DEAL

SO WHAT

[(*The Noonward Race*)]

looo0000000000ser

YOU DONT EVEN TALK TO PEOPLE

AS U EAT

[adb]

fuuuuuuuuuu

[Jay Link]

I love to eat alone. More food for me!

[The Feeding]

i usually eat alone now that my gf doesn't live with me, never bothers me