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RE: an evening out... the restaurant - 10/13/2008 12:08:04 AM
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captainfraulein
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I finish my plate, I am a big eater and it shows. In the event I don't finish, I generally do not take home left overs as I forget to eat them...unless it is steak or brownies. I live alone and forget what is in my fridge
When I lived in London, there were NO left over boxes! You just did not do that! It is am American thing.
I find it a burden to carry around this extra food on a date. I would try to just eat most of it and not have any left overs. If a guy is turned off by that, he should not go out with me again. I tend to enjoy good food and don't like it to go to waste.
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RE: an evening out... the restaurant - 10/13/2008 10:18:37 PM
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OneJohn410
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Gut Nacht, Capt. Fraulein,
Thanks for participating! It was a most unexpected evening, and I've been thinking lately Jack & Jill will not be going out doubling with me again. They've been too much of a distraction.
On a side note, it was fun to share names of places my Mom has seen twice now in London and around the UK. This last trip, she saw a bunch of restored historic churches, one with a laboratory in the bottom of it.
Thanks again,
OneJohn410
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I finish my plate, I am a big eater and it shows. In the event I don't finish, I generally do not take home left overs as I forget to eat them...unless it is steak or brownies. I live alone and forget what is in my fridge
When I lived in London, there were NO left over boxes! You just did not do that! It is am American thing.
I find it a burden to carry around this extra food on a date. I would try to just eat most of it and not have any left overs. If a guy is turned off by that, he should not go out with me again. I tend to enjoy good food and don't like it to go to waste.
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RE: an evening out... the restaurant - 10/14/2008 9:09:25 PM
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sudden
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Dear OneJohn:
Are you kidding me? You take this woman on a FIRST date to CAFE Le HUGE?!?!?!? AND you ask her to pay for her own bill? A bill for a 2 pound steak and some suds? Food she didn't want in the first place? and then you have the audacity to suggest that she use a *cough, cough* DOGGIE BAG?
What are you? NUTS??!?!?!?! 
I can tell you this...NO WOMAN wants to go to CAFE la HUGE on a first date. Cafe la Huge caters to the appetites of large men and teenage boys (who think that quantity always outweighs quality) not to the refined tastes of the charming young woman you wanted to woo on a date.
No! No! No!. NEVER... (pay attention to this) NEVER take her to CAFE la HUGE if you wish to make a good impression. Her tastes are for a restaurant that offers fine dining in a beautiful and romantic atmosphere complete with music, candles and a nice glass of wine.
As to the question as to what to do about the left-over food on the plate, first of all, it is HER plate, not yours. Second, you should be so busy gazing into her beautiful eyes that any thought of food becomes a distant memory.
Yours for wining, (or is it whining?) dining and wooing them.
Sudden
< Message edited by sudden -- 10/14/2008 9:26:19 PM >
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RE: an evening out... the restaurant - 10/16/2008 3:06:38 AM
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OneJohn410
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Hi Sudden,
Somewhere in this is an explanation that this was a hypothetical situation. I had no idea that food on a plate in a restaurant was such a volatile question for some, or I might have chosen something else to ask about. As things progressed, I was glad to not be in L'Elegante Sinco Star Restaurante with Jack & Jill. There'd have been a scene. 
It was a double date, our first, and she found her favorite entree on the menu, and as you later realized, I didn't bring up carry-out box, only that I could keep the rest of it cold for her while we played mini-golf.
Thanks for trying to tarnish the rep of my pretend restaurant, but as OP, you are overruled. See, part of the challenge of all this was that things were unfolding AFTER you'd agreed to eat with me there. I had to try to place you into a setting, otherwise I'd have maybe 60 places the two couples would have eaten, right?
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Her tastes are for a restaurant that offers fine dining in a beautiful and romantic atmosphere complete with music, candles and a nice glass of wine.
That's excellent by me, but again, I wanted to rule all that out, and just focus on two things.
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you should be so busy gazing into her beautiful eyes that any thought of food becomes a distant memory.
Who's to say I wasn't. In fact, who's to say I really intently was as belching frog noises surrounded she and I in stereo?
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BELCHING? ARE YOU KIDDING ME??!?!?! There is only one thing to do.
Assume that the people performing this outrageous behaviour don't know any better. Since they don't know any better and one presumes they are adults the behaviour is best ignored as it is very impolite to tell another adult what to do.
Oh, I think they are just real giddy in love with each other and do know better. C'mon Sudden, they are our friends sitting at the same table with us. But they wouldn't let up, and I was distracted from gazing into your beautiful eyes by all that racket. So we moved, etc. But you do have to let friends know you've had enough sometimes, right?
I can tell we left the rest of your food in the restaurant, and that you had an incredibly disappointing evening, but you did enjoy the conversation at the bookstore and the decaf double mocha latte.
Thanks for participating... I've made some notes on that wooing you talk about.
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RE: an evening out... the restaurant - 11/13/2008 12:02:36 AM
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captainfraulein
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I have to admit, I hardly ever pay anymore with guy friends even. One guy friend...I started us going out to breakfast just to chat and catch up. He ALWAYS pays..NO exceptions. He laughs when I try to pay so I gave up trying. And he is just a friend! You make ladies pay? Okay...hmmm. I guess i am spoiled.
BTW, John, I want so bad to go back the UK! It rock! The pubs are first rate! And the old old churches! you lucky boy!
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RE: an evening out... the restaurant - 11/13/2008 11:12:03 AM
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OneJohn410
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Ah, Guten Morgan, herr Capi-tan Fraulein!
Forgive my German, yes? It is bad, no? Yes, it is bad.
A woman of your grace and rank should not have to pay for anything, and so I am thrilled to hear of this... this laughing morning guy friend of yours. Vonderbar! I hear of suppers being perhaps $10 and up, excluding tax, tip, mint or gum... it is appalling! I would no longer make someone pay than I would laugh at you if you wanted to buy your own meal! 
But spoiling from the standpoint of someone such as you, why that is as natural as... as nature itself.
My friends and I must get you back to the UK for a short visit, ya? But you will come back again? Were I but a young lad, I could get a child's rate and go visit with you, but alas, I am much older now.
I pray one day you get a chance to return.
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I have to admit, I hardly ever pay anymore with guy friends even. One guy friend...I started us going out to breakfast just to chat and catch up. He ALWAYS pays..NO exceptions. He laughs when I try to pay so I gave up trying. And he is just a friend! You make ladies pay? Okay...hmmm. I guess i am spoiled.
BTW, John, I want so bad to go back the UK! It rock! The pubs are first rate! And the old old churches! you lucky boy!
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The Lord is my strength and shield. I trust Him with all my heart. He helps me, and my heart is filled with joy. I burst out in songs of thanksgiving. Psalm 28:7
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RE: an evening out... the restaurant - 11/13/2008 10:30:52 PM
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captainfraulein
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Thanks John. I spoke only high school German so no worries! LOL.
God bless. +
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RE: an evening out... the restaurant - 11/15/2008 1:48:33 AM
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OneJohn410
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Ah, dear Frauline,
I must ask, is that chocolate you have balanced so delicately on your avatar glass? Is the chocolate not to your satisfaction, that I should ask for another? The lighting, the reflections, forgive me. I am distracted by your nimble placement there on the table.
And I see you are from planet Earth? Have you visited a Planet Hollywood? Quite overpriced in my opinion.
OneJohn410
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