To regulary go to the cinema and/or a restaurant alone on a Friday or Saturday night?

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Full of couples and families. I went to watch Ted tonight and mostly OK.

Incase others think I am some weirdo.

Yep I travelled round south east Asia on my own for 3 months. It's fine. It depends on you being comfortable with yourself. I have a friend that won't even walk into a pub on her own to meet friends. I think it's sad. I say stop worrying about what other people think because people are not thinking about you at all. You are insignificant to them! Get over your egocentricity!

no problem with the cinema but I wouldn't like eating in a restaurant alone x

Love going to the cinema alone. Your choice of film, don't have to share your snacks, no constant "oh what was HE in??" "isn't thy the girl from thingy" etc.

More than happy to go to a restaurant by myself. You're never alone with a Kindle :)

I went to an Everyman cinema on my own a couple of years ago and, despite being almost empty with 20 mins to go, they refused to sell me a seat except at the end of the row.* So they would apparently think you were being unreasonable. I do not. And why would you care if people you will never this again think you are a Billy no-mates?

*I told them I would go somewhere that actually wanted my custom and headed to an Empire instead, who were happy for me to sit in any empty seat.

Will never meet again

I moved seats just before the film started. I heard the guy behind me say whats up with that bitch do we smell. Then before film statred I was on MN and another petson said fancy being in the net in the cibema.

Anyone who doesn't feel comfortable going to the cinema alone needs to get some self esteem. It is 100% normal and I don't know anyone who doesn't do it.

Eating out alone, I can see why it's a bit uncomfortable for some, but I do it. Again, normal. I see plenty of people doing it.

I have alwsys been to cinema alone in daytime but just had opp to do so at night. The nasty remarks put me off a bit.

Neither of those remarks were about you being on your own. They were about you moving seats and about you MNing. You might be less inclined to do either of those things if you go with someone else and possibly you'd be less likely to hear snide remarks if you were talking to a friend.

I'd love to go alone. I think I just might soon. A nice big popcorn just for me and a drink. Done.

I go alone to the cinema. I've also been the only person in there on more then one occasion! That was fun :)

It's rude to make comments on a total stranger moving seats ect.

Yanbu to go on your own, once dd is in school I will be going on my own alot :)

I often move seats if someone sits near me in a virtually empty cinema. I've never had a comment about it though.

Restaurants are a different matter. I don't mind anyone sitting near me because it's a chatty environment.

I like to see films in peace. It's lovely

i never go to the cinema alone. i'd like to but i've never had the nerve. the easiest to get to is a city centre one, and i'd be almost certain to be 'seen' there.

Since DH died 18 months ago I have started to do both. It is, sorry DH, lovely to go to the cinema and not have someone either wanting plot explanations; insisting on watching some crap action thriller; or wanting to be 'romantic', not a problem normally but tended to happen when I chose the film! I think it is one of the great pleasures of being a grown up!

Three Stooges is on soon, shall go and watch that.

lovebunny be seen by who though? If you see someone you know and like there, then you can go and sit with them, maybe have a coffee after, what would be the problem? If it's someone you don't like, then their opinion is not really important.

I wouldn't even notice that someone was alone. But if I think about someone alone in the cinema, the image is more of an independent and stylish auteur than a sad loser with no friends.

In London, people are always doing things alone, maybe because it's often a bit of a pain to get together with people. I was thinking about this yesterday. I went to a cafe and then to the park with my partner. I'd say 50% of the people in both places were on their own.

I love going to the cinema alone, have been doing it a lot more recently. I got fed up of spending all day looking forward to a planned cinema trip then coming home to my husband saying, don't feel like it tonight, can we go next week. Now I just go anyway and love it. No more missing films I want to see, and no more worrying about if he's enjoying the movie.

I sometimes go to the cinema alone. It is the least social activity I can think of really, so there's no point in having a companion. I also much prefer going to a coffee shop alone than with someone else - it's my reading time.

My hurdle to jump over is the solo dining experience. I desperately want to get up the courage to go to a proper, sit down restaurant by myself. I shall do it one day!