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The person eating pasta at the pool...

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Carouselfish · 17/03/2025 19:38

It was me. I know it was weird. I kind of hid it in my coat which made it weirder and look like I was some sort of compulsive eater. Also felt massively unhygienic. A chocolate bar or crisps is normal in the spectator seats, but full on pasta in a tupperware!!!??? But I didn't have any other time and I hate cold pasta. If I'd eaten it in my car 4 year old dd wouldn't have had me watching her lesson. Sorry, so sorry to be the weird secret pasta shoveller...

Sooooo...what's the oddest place you've ever had dinner?

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Carouselfish · 17/03/2025 19:53

No, dirty was me being amusing.
I'm glad other people do it! I've never seen anyone.
(Hiding in coat on lap not like man with stolen watches in trenchcoat)

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Shmee1988 · 17/03/2025 19:50

One of the women in my sons lessons eats her dinner at the pool. She then gives pasta in tupperwear to child number 1 while child number 2 swims and vice versa. She then showers them and brushes their teeth in the pool showers.

Littletreefrog · 17/03/2025 19:49

Just so you know no one cares about you eating pasta at the pool. You have made yourself look odd by hiding it in your coat not by eating pasta.

SingingSonnets · 17/03/2025 19:45

The only weird thing is that you tried to hide it.

Dirty? Do you have issues with food?

MrsTerryPratchett · 17/03/2025 19:44

The older I get, the less I GAF about people think. Fly your Freak Flag high.

I’ve eaten weird things in weirder places.

Sminty2 · 17/03/2025 19:44

I used to take my lunch and sit eating it while finishing my marking from school. Next time, take a linen napkin, proper cutlery and maybe a cruet. Be proud you are a multi tasking, totally handling it woman!

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Carouselfish · 17/03/2025 19:43

Nope. Still hot. Still feel dirty from doing it. Grin

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BendingSpoons · 17/03/2025 19:43

I say go for it! Not that weird, but as a student I would plate up my dinner and then eat it in the park opposite if the weather was nice (no garden). I did feel a bit odd sitting there with my proper plate and cutlery! I'm sure some other weird ones will come to mind soon.

Annascaul · 17/03/2025 19:42

You hate cold pasta? Surely it was cold by the time you got to the pool and got your child in the water?!

TourangaLeila · 17/03/2025 19:40

I don't know why you bothered hiding it?

I used to take full on picnics to swimming lessons when I had 3 on rotation 😂