Eating alone

Barriehie said:
Yep, no surprises...
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It's just smart, no-cost insurance on maintaining basic awareness for an event where you may need to either stop a threat or throw your loved ones out of the nearest exit. If you stay out of urban shitholes, the odds of such an event are seriously negligible, but are still never zero. Similarly, you can stage Stop The Bleed / trauma kits through your house and in every vehicle, that hopefully will never be needed. Just like having fire extinguishers, they may never be needed over a lifetime... until they are.
 
Gone Hiking said:
It's just smart, no-cost insurance on maintaining basic awareness for an event where you may need to either stop a threat or throw your loved ones out of the nearest exit. If you stay out of urban shitholes, the odds of such an event are seriously negligible, but are still never zero. Similarly, you can stage Stop The Bleed / trauma kits through your house and in every vehicle, that hopefully will never be needed. Just like having fire extinguishers, they may never be needed over a lifetime... until they are.
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Situational awareness, it only makes sense. 👍
 
80% of the time my wife is with me unless I go some where on the bike for a weekend and then I eat alone. Find a table in a corner and try to look inconspicuous. I always thought it was sad to see someone eating alone in a resteraunt .... like you guys, I don't like having my back exposed either ....
 
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Once a year I used to book a days holiday and not tell anyone.
I’d supposedly go off to work but instead I’d go somewhere fabulous to eat on my tod. I was quite partial to Harvey Nics golden dining room, good food, excellent service.

So just me, a book and complete peace and quiet. A few hours only once year but true peace and quiet.

I only recently confessed to Mr SSOAP I used to do that. I expected him to be irritated because we don’t have any secrets and it wasn’t exactly a one off, I did it every year for donkeys, but he understood completely.
We had young children at the time, I was working two jobs and were building a business so if you were awake you were working.
I didn’t even watch a single television programme for about 10 years because it was sleep, work and repeat day after day after day.
That one day a year felt very much like the ultimate forbidden fruit and as grabbing some naughtiness goes I figured it wasn’t the worse thing in the world!

So yes I like eating on my own and will deliberately ride out by myself just for that.
However unlike Wombat theres no hiding or peace and quiet because a single woman on a motorcycle seems to be a magnet for people who want to know where you’ve come from, why you’re on your own (it appears I’m not supposed to be on my own 🙄) and why I’m riding a motorbike! 😂
 
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Single woman traveling for work eating alone at a bar, is a magnet for big people or men to approach you and put their arms around you. Little did they know “the little woman” as they called me came from New England, they just as tough as the New Yorkers. I think after that incident, I bet they don’t underestimate “little women” anymore, lol.
 
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SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
Once a year I used to book a days holiday and not tell anyone.
I’d supposedly go off to work but instead I’d go somewhere fabulous to eat on my tod. I was quite partial to Harvey Nics golden dining room, good food, excellent service.

So just me, a book and complete peace and quiet. A few hours only once year but true peace and quiet.

I only recently confessed to Mr SSOAP I used to do that. I expected him to be irritated because we don’t have any secrets and it wasn’t exactly a one off, I did it every year for donkeys, but he understood completely.
We had young children at the time, I was working two jobs and were building a business so if you were awake you were working.
I didn’t even watch a single television programme for about 10 years because it was sleep, work and repeat day after day after day.
That one day a year felt very much like the ultimate forbidden fruit and as grabbing some naughtiness goes I figured it wasn’t the worse thing in the world!

So yes I like eating on my own and will deliberately ride out by myself just for that.
However unlike Wombat theres no hiding or peace and quiet because a single woman on a motorcycle seems to be a magnet for people who want to know where you’ve come from, why you’re on your own (it appears I’m not supposed to be on my own 🙄) and why I’m riding a motorbike! 😂
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I really feel for you as I know what you mean and what you have to endure. That is all courtesy of stereotyping and societies ignorant beliefs. Had you travelled by car, you may have attracted attention - BUT it would have been far more respectful I would hope.

Society seems to think that "girls on bikes = easy", and that is simply just NOT the case, Regretably, some females do submit to that though and, like the 1%'s, give female bike riders a bad name.
 
Wombat457 said:
I really feel for you as I know what you mean and what you have to endure. That is all courtesy of stereotyping and societies ignorant beliefs. Had you travelled by car, you may have attracted attention - BUT it would have been far more respectful I would hope.

Society seems to think that "girls on bikes = easy", and that is simply just NOT the case, Regretably, some females do submit to that though and, like the 1%'s, give female bike riders a bad name.
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Tbh I mostly seem to seem to attract curiosity and a lot of the time people are being kind, in a ‘are you ok on your own? Can we help you?’ type of way.
Blokes are.. blokes. I’ve been invited to all sorts I would never say yes to but as my Pa says “well you can’t blame them for trying” 😂
There is certainly an “easy” or wild connotation that goes along with it but like you say I’m someone who enjoys riding a bike!

I’m friends with an amazing bunch of women that I see every now and then and when we ride together we have a riot.
The sight of a bunch of women on motorcycles in some countries will stop the traffic and my goodness they know how to have fun, but patronise them or mess with them - mistake! 🤣
Oddly enough these women are all very competent, quietly tough people and all but a couple are middle/upper middle class. I guess they’re the ones confident enough to go and do what they want to regardless of societal expectations and I know for sure every single one of them enjoys going for a ride, visiting places and are happy eating on their own!
 
I can imagine the fun (and no doubt good trouble) a bunch of girls on bikes could create just as I am sure they would/could stop traffic :)

I suppose you have to be tough/thick skinned to ride a bike be you male or female BUT especially female. I admire the girls on bikes and praise them for doing what they want to do and enjoy ... that is what life is (or should be) all about :)
 
Wombat457 said:
I can imagine the fun (and no doubt good trouble) a bunch of girls on bikes could create just as I am sure they would/could stop traffic :)

I suppose you have to be tough/thick skinned to ride a bike be you male or female BUT especially female. I admire the girls on bikes and praise them for doing what they want to do and enjoy ... that is what life is (or should be) all about :)
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This is us a few years ago now.
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Wombat457 said:
Oh yeah ... there is no doubt about it .... trouble just waiting to happen :D

You guys look like a great bunch and full of fun and (possibly) mischief given the chance :) Do you mind me asking which one is you?
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Of course not, so long as you remember that none of us (including myself) quite look like we usually do because that was a tough ride for a long ol’ time at very high altitude so everyone was pretty swollen. Especially me who had broken my foot and was hiding it 😂 The small one top row 8th from the left (or 3rd from the right) 😊

So much mischief but all good people 😊

And just to swing this back on topic before the mod choppers are left with no option but to chop, everyone of them will ride off solo and happily eat anywhere on their own!
 
You are the guys that should have the focused placed on them - the REAL side of riding ;) :)

SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
And just to swing this back on topic before the mod choppers are left with no option but to chop, everyone of them will ride off solo and happily eat anywhere on their own!
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Oooops, yeah, got a little side tracked - but anyone who can ride with a broken foot CAN certainly eat alone - see, back on topic again guys :)
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
Of course not, so long as you remember that none of us (including myself) quite look like we usually do because that was a tough ride for a long ol’ time at very high altitude so everyone was pretty swollen. Especially me who had broken my foot and was hiding it 😂 The small one top row 8th from the left (or 3rd from the right) 😊

So much mischief but all good people 😊

And just to swing this back on topic before the mod choppers are left with no option but to chop, everyone of them will ride off solo and happily eat anywhere on their own!
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The short one! 🤠
 
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