Does anyone else hate going to restaurants?

[_Brittany_]

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I haven't been to one since December (and only cause I was forced to go)..I just hate everything about them.

 

[Coper]

I used to be afraid to go to restaurants, unless I was with my family. Now I've mostly gotten over that, though. It was that or learn to cook for myself, which I was apparently even more scared of. :lol:

I still have problems though, like recently I was at a diner, and I wasn't sure whether I needed to pay at the register, and where to leave the tip. Also, I didn't have exact change, which further screwed things up. Tipping etiquette questions always make me very nervous. Also, when I'm with someone else, I'm always nervous about bringing up the subject of who pays.

 

[2Crowded]

I'm alot better now with going to them than I was years back..but stil am uncomfortable most of the time.....If I am in control of the outing, I always choose a time & place to go when I know there will be a minimal amount of people there...like in between lunch & dinner...but I can go when crowded if forced to but I hate it greatly.....I never go alone either (minus a handful of times)..always have to be with someone else that i trust who knows about my problem....or I will be miserable.

 

[Hael]

I used to be awfully anxious going to restaurants - I also used to struggle to meet my husband for coffee, although I wanted to meet him for coffee, social anxiety made things difficult. However - I perservered and over time I got over my fears.

 

[Nabu]

I don't like to go alone into a restaurant. I feel embarrassed.
EVen if I go with someone else I can't fell comfortable around this lot of people. I'm not able to stop my negative thinking, that they observe me.

 

[ripewithdecay]

I love eating out. But i get nervous when i'm about to order because most of the time the waitress doesn't hear me clearly enough the first time.

 

[KevinMF]

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I haven't been to one since December (and only cause I was forced to go)..I just hate everything about them.

i just hate eating in front of people i dont know

i dont like people watching me eat....it makes me feel uneasy

 

[recluse]

I actually love going to restaurants, my only problem is i have no one to go with and i would feel weird eating alone. I used to be terrified when i was younger and i couldn't bear the though of being watched eating, even though people are too busy eating their own food though.

Sigh..I just wish i had someone to take for a meal

 

[Coper]

I actually love going to restaurants, my only problem is i have no one to go with and i would feel weird eating alone. I used to be terrified when i was younger and i couldn't bear the though of being watched eating, even though people are too busy eating their own food though.

Sigh..I just wish i had someone to take for a meal

I feel weird eating out alone too, but I still do it, again just because I don't want to cook for myself. What I really hate is when, after I've been to a restaurant several times, the wait staff start getting all chummy with me, and they can predict in advance what I'm going to order. I know they're trying to be nice, and earn a good tip, but it just makes me embarrassed that they have come to know me as someone who never has anyone to eat with, and always orders the same things over and over.

Recently I was at one of my regular places, and I saw one of the professors from my department (who I've noticed also seems a little shy) doing the exact same thing as me, eating a meal by himself, responding to the waitress' overly familiar banter with mumbled monosyllables, and I thought to myself "God, is that what I look like? That's pathetic. I so do not want to still be doing this when I'm his age." Really, though, I don't have any good reason to think I won't be.