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06-09-2009, 09:09 AM
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Location: Manchester, UK
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We don't usually sit next to each other (and we've never sat on the same side of the table, only at a 90 degree angle from each other at a square table, if that makes sense), but if it's a large table, I hate feeling like I have to shout across it. I don't like people in a restaurant overhearing our conversation so sometimes we sit next to each other just so we can have a private converstion and actually hear one another! I imagine some couples who do sit on the same side of the table feel the same way. It's got nothing to do with insecurity, it's a shame people feel the need to make such presumptions about couples they don't even know.
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06-09-2009, 11:16 AM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Back in New York
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Drover
Good grief. It is absolutely amazing what some of you people think you know about a couple's relationship based on their seating arrangement at a restaurant. MYOB.
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You can tell a lot based on how ppl sit or gestures they make. |
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06-09-2009, 11:43 AM
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Work in progress...thank you for your patience :)
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space! ;)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CleanCutHippie
You can tell a lot based on how ppl sit or gestures they make.
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Yikes, the internet is scary - how did you know I was making that gesture?  Kidding! Kidding!  |
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06-09-2009, 12:08 PM
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CD: Just Having Fun
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"Winter is here right on schedule"
(set 19 days ago)
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Memphis - home of the king
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Originally Posted by Charley
My wife and I have been married for 35 years and friends for 43. Sometimes we sit opposite each other and sometimes we sit next to each other. It doesn't mean a thing either way and it doesn't matter to us what anyone thinks about it. If it bothers anyone, that's too bad. Don't them not look at us. With so many other problems in this world, how we sit in a restaurant is meaningless.
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Good answer, Charley! 
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Originally Posted by CleanCutHippie
You can tell a lot based on how ppl sit or gestures they make.
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Or you think you can. |
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06-09-2009, 01:04 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Manchester, UK
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Originally Posted by CleanCutHippie
You can tell a lot based on how ppl sit or gestures they make.
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Sometimes.
Other times, people are just reading too much into it. |
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06-09-2009, 01:06 PM
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There's beauty in the solace of not giving a damn.
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Chicago
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Originally Posted by CleanCutHippie
You can tell a lot based on how ppl sit or gestures they make.
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Or by the things they think they know about people based on their seating arrangement at a restaurant. |
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06-09-2009, 01:20 PM
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If you refuse to use your brain
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Heartland
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Originally Posted by CleanCutHippie
Its a sign of insecurity and an invasion of personal space.
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It's a sign of love and personal closeness that we still have after 37 years of marriage. If we have the choice we always sit next to each other.
If you really believe what you say you were never a Hippie. Take it from someone who was... |
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06-09-2009, 01:21 PM
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Warrior Princess
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: SC Foothills
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Well, just forget what I said in a previous post....I have a very slanted view on this because of a bad marriage.
You guys who do this for the "right" reasons....keep on rocking!!
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06-09-2009, 01:26 PM
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If you refuse to use your brain
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Heartland
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Originally Posted by Ilene Wright
Well, just forget what I said in a previous post....I have a very slanted view on this because of a bad marriage.
You guys who do this for the "right" reasons....keep on rocking!!
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Two sides to every coin. I wish your side had been the better one...
To any of you just starting out in marriage or a relationship I give you this wish; one we always give to newlyweds.
May your marriage be as full of happiness and love as ours has been. |
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06-09-2009, 01:39 PM
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CD: Just Having Fun
Status:
"Winter is here right on schedule"
(set 19 days ago)
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Memphis - home of the king
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tek_Freek
If you really believe what you say you were never a Hippie. Take it from someone who was...
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What he said.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ilene Wright
Well, just forget what I said in a previous post....I have a very slanted view on this because of a bad marriage.
You guys who do this for the "right" reasons....keep on rocking!!
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