For myself, there's one for sure (The one that makes this post relevant to the hobby anyways.)
I could see another couple perhaps. (I hate leaving my coat at the coat check* and I love to eavesdrop.)
How about you?
*I always forget to bring ones for the tip with me.
I have either went to dinner with most of them, or have seen them in a restaurant. On a related note, I once split a check for dinner with the other 2 couples that went with me, and we told the waiter that we wanted to split the total check 3 ways. He agreed. After we were done eating, and gave him the 3 cards, we got the bill back (after 30 minutes I might add), ad noticed that some of us only had 2/3's of a dinner, and 1/3 of an appetizer we never ate. I never have seen a waiter take the thirds literally, but he did. It took 2 other staff members and the Manager to re-do the check. I still laugh to this day when splitting checks.
My friends laugh it off and when they do it to each other they call it "doing a Pangloss."
One that really annoys me is the Freeloader when he/she is the one who suggests splitting the check. That reminds me of when I began going out with my now W, we would go out to dinner with my now brother-in-law and sister-in-law. At the time, I was barely scraping by and they would order soups, appetizers, bottles of wine, expensive entrees and desserts and the now brother-in-law would always say "let's split the check." It was not malicious, he was simply not thinking but by the third or fourth time going out, I finally said to myself, fuck it, I cannot afford it anyway, I might as well order expensive plates too
The Sad Solo Diner
Man, you didn’t even bring a book? At least pretend to look at something on your phone! I’m getting anxiety for you.
and I'm a little surprised, figured I'd hit at least one. I'm sure I do something annoying, it's just not on this list.
I loudly proclaim that I eat Veal BECAUSE of the way it's raised.
Oh, and the "pro-shoot" pronunciation for prosciutto is the way Sicilians pronounce it. Northern Italians and Romans don't drop the "o" at the end.
to suffer from noise hypersensitivity. It is a genuine problem, even if it is one that gets virtually no recognition or protection. I am unable to go outside at all in the fall without wearing noise cancelling headphones over earplugs (I actually manage to mow my own lawn with a push mower -- obviously only in the wee morning hours -- and clean up the leaves with a rake. Takes a whole half-hour/week and a few hours in the fall.) But I never go to a restaurant. As Noah Cross would say, not worth it, really not worth it.
And also sing this little tune to really do it right:
I am the solo diner but I'm not sad, I just want to eat, drink, n b on my way, n why would u bring a book to have dinner? That's why most places have tv's.