On 2020-08-15 1:35 p.m., graham wrote:
> On 2020-08-15 10:01 a.m., jmcquown wrote:


>> I've never had a problem dining out by myself.Â* Sometimes the
>> establishment thought it was odd.Â* I remember one time on a lunch
>> break I went to a small bistro.Â* I'd been there before with co-workers
>> but this time I was alone.Â* The hostess saw a couple standing behind
>> me and assumed we were together. "Three?" "No, one."Â* ONE?Â* Yes.Â* A
>> table for one.Â* Got a problem with that?
>>
> I wanted to try a new restaurant one evening but was refused even though
> it was barely half full.
> I never went there after that.


I once made the mistake of being insistent at a place that did not want
to let me it. It was in Sudbury Ont. I was up there to deliver some
equipment. The shop loaned me a pickup to get back and forth to my
hotel and out for dinner. I drove around and didn't see any place worth
going to so I went to the restaurant in the hotel across the street. I
was dress in clean blue jeans and a flannel shirt and did not comply
with their dress code. I talked my way it, telling them that I was
staying across the street, did not have a change of clothes and it's
early, just wanted some supper and go back to the motel to sleep.

The let me in. I wished they had not. My filet was just OK. It was
served with tasteless overmashed potatoes frozen mixed vegetables and a
commercially made roll. I was the only one there. It wasn't like some
other diners had come and then decided not to eat they because someone
has admitted the riffraff. They had tried to turn away the only customer
of the evening.
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