Floridaman999
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I'm too busy drinking wine to train for runs.I'm too busy training for runs to drink
I'm too busy drinking wine to train for runs.I'm too busy training for runs to drink
It could be fluff stuff, like are the even numbered Star Trek movies really that much better than the odd numbered ones? (YES, they are, BTW. )
Diner, coffee, shop, and greasy spoon were pretty much interchangeable terms back in the day. The term coffee shop predates any of the coffee stores such as Starbucks by years upon years. It is very similar to a diner. Same food. Same cup o' joe. But usually bigger. Diner originally referred to a train car. And many of the earliest Diners were converted train cars. Hence the name. There were also prefab buildings that were used that could be delivered almost anywhere that were made to look like a train car. We didn't have any of them where I grew up because land was dirt cheap. Ours were always bigger.That's a diner. I think most people think of a coffee shop as sort of a non-chain locally owned Starbucks type place.
Seriously, if I'm going out to some place, it needs to either have really good food or drink or some other sort of entertainment. The places that seem to be doing well lately (again, regardless of alcohol), combine some other sort of activity - around here, there's been axe throwing, bocce courts and board games as things to draw people in. And yeah, they're fads, but hey, it's at least something new.
I'm too busy training for runs to drink
This is ONE of the reasons that I stopped going out. I would go to Thursday Night Pint Night at a local pizza place and the night (2 beers & a pizza) would cost me nearly $40.
I know what the two women in the place are thinking. Wow. Back when we went to the alcohol bar these guys looked hot. I picked a heck of a time to quit drinking.View attachment 416763
Hmmmm, looks kind of awkward, like these people seem to be thinking, "that guy speaking is a total dweeb, lemme finish my drink and get outta this lame place."
Yes but without the social interaction that can happen at a bar. I've never had a random person ask me what I'm reading at Starbucks. Sitting at a bar drinking a beer, it happens nearly every time.Just what I was thinking. Doesn't Starbucks already fulfill the purpose of serving overpriced non-alcoholic drinks?
Next time just don't order the pizza....problem solved!
.....and you know I'm totally jk!
That still seems to be what I was talking about.I'm not talking about the obnoxious drinkers. Those people are obnoxious even without drinking.
There is a group of us that attend various workshops or seminars together. Then we all go out to dinner or a tapas bar afterwards to chat. We often have great talks, witty, intellectual debates, (no degenerating into name calling or anything close to that,) sometimes about what the seminar was about, etc.
There was this one time, where the debate got really heated, and this one woman, who, by the way she dressed and held herself, was probably a really strong, intelligent supervisor, (but not at all arrogant,) at some corporation, was about to tell us her argument. We were all quietly waiting, on bated breath, as though she was about to tell us she had come up with the cure for AIDS. Just when it was about to come out of her mouth, her eyes went woozy and she put her hands up to her head as though she felt the room start spinning, and she said, "Damn. . . Sorry. I've had too much to drink. . . I just lost my thought. . . Nope. . . I can't get the thought back." And in an instant, <poof!> there went the cure for AIDS as she had tipped over into the sloshed zone. We all groaned.
I'm not flaming her. She had every right to relax and kick back a few - or several, after work.
Yet, as a non-alcohol person hanging out with social drinkers, this happens a lot. It's not always deep conversations about splitting the atom. It could be fluff stuff, like are the even numbered Star Trek movies really that much better than the odd numbered ones? (YES, they are, BTW. ) One moment we are having a lucid conversation, then comes a moment when we are not.
I find it depends on type of beer and place too.I do that on occasion but then it's only ONE beer and a nearly $10 tab. I mean seriously when did a pint of beer become $7 - $8?
The only reason I’m training for runs is because I have a Disney addiction and need more excuses to go to Disney.I'm too busy drinking wine to train for runs.
I understand completely.The only reason I’m training for runs is because I have a Disney addiction and need more excuses to go to Disney.
I find it depends on type of beer and place too.
Or maybe a starbucks?Uh, I hate to point out the obvious, but you can do all those very same things at a bar that serves alcohol, too. Just don't drink. But then they wouldn't be able to feel sooper speshul by doing that.
My first thought was either theraphy circle let's introduce ourselves or church group. People at normal " bars" do not stand in a wide open circle with tons of bubble space. i I usually up to my friends face speaking so they can hear me.View attachment 416763
Hmmmm, looks kind of awkward, like these people seem to be thinking, "that guy speaking is a total dweeb, lemme finish my drink and get outta this lame place."