would it BU for me to go pub on my own!

[TakeMeDrunkImHome]

DD is at her dads for the weekend, bored in the house all alone...am I a terrible person if I walk down to the pub (with a book to hide behind of course) and have a couple of glasses of wine?? Or am I a disgrace to all womankind for being such a wimp that I even have to ask this question?

[BuggerAllTheBestNamesAreTaken]

Have fun and make sure you come back on tomorrow to let us know how it went

[upahill]

I find it really odd that people (women) feel odd about doing things by themselves.

Since I was 13 ish I have been going to the theatre, swimming, abroad, gigs,pubs and restaurants etc etc by myself.

Addmittedly my mum always thought I was strange but if I fancied doing something and none of my friends were up for it my attitude was always 'why should I miss out' so I did what ever I wanted.

I am so glad that DS2 who is 11 feels confident and has done for several years in being the same. If he fancies something at the cinema and his mates aren't around he enjoys his own company there.

[begonyabampot]

went to the cinema on my own last year and it was great - will def do it again.

Anyway you can always pretend your waiting for someone to turn up.

[AgentZigzag]

Tsk, just look at the time.

I bet the OP's up to all sorts

[upahill]

Begonya..

But if you 'pretend' to wait for a friend you will look like a sad cow whose friends let them down or someone who pretends that their friends are coming but they don't trap!!

[begonyabampot]

True! You'd have to visit several pubs just staying for one drink or you'd be rumbled!

[LineRunner]

So how did it go, OP?

[izzywhizzyletsgetbusy]

You don't seriously expect the OP to be home this early, do you Line?

[LineRunner]

If she went anywhere like my local, she's have been home hours ago....

[upahill]

I'm home from my local.
However DH was on a blokes works night but asked if I wanted to go for tea out with him. I said once the fellas arrived I would leave them to it.
We had a few hours together, his mates arrived and I stayed for about an hour with them before wandering home.
They are still there and no doubt all will come wandering in for a butty later!!

[malinkey]

I've just been out for a meal and to the cinema on my own. Best date night I've had for ages - and the company was great.

[VforViennetta]

I would go most places on my own I think, but not a pub, maybe during the day when you could sit with a book/paper. I just find pubs really really boring unless you are there with other people, like people who sit in coffee houses, park benches and what not for hours tapping away on laptops or reading, I'd rather be somewhere comfy where I could scratch my arse in peace.

[RufusTFirefly]

I'm glad you went, TakemeDrunk. My marriage broke up suddenly in 1994, and although we had been unhappy for ages, it was a shock. I made the decision not to sit at home and mope, but to go out a lot. It was easier for me, as I went to pubs where there was jazz. There was usually someone I knew, if only on the bandstand.

I had let my singing go while married, partly because of a humungous knock-back I got from a drunken punter (from which my exH did not defend me - he was on the gig too), and partly because he didn't like my singing and said so. At length. So I started to sit in with bands and eventually put my own band together and started to get some gigs. It took some doing to walk into a pub or club alone, without knowing for sure if there'd be someone I knew there. But it was worth it.

You have every right to go for a drink on your own - your local sounds ideal (you have to pick your pub as some are grisly). Enjoy!

[ScarletOHaHa]

How did you get on? I would eat/drink on my own no probs :)

[darleneoconnor]

Hope it went well. It's a shame that there are all these public spaces where women feel uncomfortable going alone. It's one part of gender inequality no one sems to talk about.