Sharing tables with strangers during meal time

last SG · 2008-10-25T18:23:32+00:00

but hor, i dont know what do you mean by private session.... how private is private? Just intimate chats? If it's like that, i dont really care if a 3rd part...

yong93 SG

errr then i quickly finish up & go lor.

This guy is smart to not follow my ideas ~

Hello Kitty SG

i wun mind unless that stranger tries to strike up a conversation.

pls leave me alone.

and if me & my frds will mind, we will go to a posher restaurant.

rainee SG

i wun mind unless that stranger tries to strike up a conversation.

pls leave me alone.

and if me & my frds will mind, we will go to a posher restaurant.

haha...

seriously, you guys dont feel like your personal space is being invaded when you have strangers sitting on the same table as you?

yong93 SG

haha...

seriously, you guys dont feel like your personal space is being invaded when you have strangers sitting on the same table as you?

Of cuz i do everybody does ~

kopiosatu SG

i don't mind if people join me no matter how cramped.

time be less selfish and picky in this world.

rainee SG

i don't mind if people join me no matter how cramped.

time be less selfish and picky in this world.

can't help it that I will feel uncomfortable initially...

but if they ask politely and don't create a lot of noise while sitting on our table then after a while most prolly i wudnt even notice them there anymore...

but when it is too cramped until no place to put your food items, not to mention theirs, how to let them join in? THen like this how to eat? Put the food on my lap?

16/f/lonely SG

share ok, but must ask politely lah, these days people got bad upbringing, they just go to your table put down food and start eating.

like we owe them something or all the tables in the shop belongs to them.

Strange leh....such people tend to come from the uncle/auntie generation.

At least what I kena so far.

caleb_chiang SG

you never ask them why?

Didn't bother to... Anyway, I was with another guy while the person is alone and male also... My friend told me that he told him that someone was sitting there but he still insisted on sitting and in fact, he had moved over from another table which he was sitting by himself initiately... weird people...

zaxis SG

no problem at all...esp if the stranger is a chio bu..

invite her to share my food

save another invitation for lunch together

zodi SG

invite her to share my food

save another invitation for lunch together

lol~ idea siah!!!!

kopiosatu SG

can't help it that I will feel uncomfortable initially...

but if they ask politely and don't create a lot of noise while sitting on our table then after a while most prolly i wudnt even notice them there anymore...

but when it is too cramped until no place to put your food items, not to mention theirs, how to let them join in? THen like this how to eat? Put the food on my lap?

they join, its their job to use the limited table space, u don't have to move food to your lap

u can edge out a little and give them a little bit more table space if you are gracious enough.

some things in life are very easy to solve.

don't have to think so much and make life difficult for yourself or to others

rainee SG

they join, its their job to use the limited table space, u don't have to move food to your lap

u can edge out a little and give them a little bit more table space if you are gracious enough.

some things in life are very easy to solve.

don't have to think so much and make life difficult for yourself or to others

what if there is no space? and they asked me to move away my food so that they can put down theirs?

kopiosatu SG

what if there is no space? and they asked me to move away my food so that they can put down theirs?

no space then they share with u for what. you can share SOMETHING, u can't share NOTHING.

like i said, if u can afford the space then give them a little, you can be nice and say "this is the most i can move"

if there's no space, look at my first line.

fudgester SG

what if there is no space? and they asked me to move away my food so that they can put down theirs?

Simple.

Just nicely tell them, 'Sorry, but we don't have enough space left, could you find another table please?'

If they're gracious enough, they'll look for another table.

If they kick up a fuss, then they're not being gracious. End of story.

NoobUnited SG

Hmm you want your own space? den u just would have to pay more to eat in a resturant or office cubicle. Moeny can buy u anything.

ShrodingersCat SG

if the table is 'built' for 4, then I think in a very crowded, not very high class place its okay and polite to share

but if it is a restaurant (and this had happened to me before) I was meeting up with 2 friends whom I have not met for some time, so we were chatting, taking our time, catching up - there was a queue outside but we will still considering to have dessert - when an auntie walked in and said that we were inconsiderate for taking so long and if we finished we should just LEAVE.

I was quite... appalled ba.

Would you tell someone off for not leaving the restaurant fast enough after their dinner?

fudgester SG

if the table is 'built' for 4, then I think in a very crowded, not very high class place its okay and polite to share

I was quite... appalled ba.

Would you tell someone off for not leaving the restaurant fast enough after their dinner?

This is of course not right lah.

If that auntie wants to use the table, she should have at least asked nicely.

And besides, it is after all a restaurant.... she should have waited for the serving staff to seat her.

seotiblizzard SG

Nope.

I wont mind if im eating alone, or maybe a small grp of 2-3 person. But if a big grp then will mind, or rather they mind us.

16/f/lonely SG

if the table is 'built' for 4, then I think in a very crowded, not very high class place its okay and polite to share

I was quite... appalled ba.

Would you tell someone off for not leaving the restaurant fast enough after their dinner?

Pays to be thick-skin here.

3nityblood. SG

i wont mind if im eating alone and there came like 1-2 people wanna share tables... but if is a big group den forget about it. lol

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