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Police Fatally Shoot Woman After She Stabbed Her Grandson To DeathAugust 6, 2012 at 8:34 am by imonfireDAMMIT
Buffalo, NY — A grandmother was shot to death by police after she stabbed her young grandson to death outside her home.
A scene of unimaginable horror is what two Buffalo police officers encountered when they were flagged down and brought to the front porch of a home. There they found 22-year-old Tiffany Fears performing CPR on her 4-year-old son, Roderick Geiger III, who was bleeding to death after having been stabbed in the stomach and chest by his grandmother.
While the officers began working on the boy they were charged by the child's 38-year-old-grandmother, Charlene Fears, who was armed with two large knives. She ignored repeated demands to drop the knives and, fearing for their safety, was subsequently shot and killed by one of the officers.
Roderick was rushed to Women and Children's Hospital, but later died. Charlene's two other children, who were in the home at the time of the stabbing, were not harmed. The officer who shot Charlene, a 25-year veteran, is not being named and the case is being investigated by the homicide squad and internal affairs.…
Xbox Live Argument Leads To Teen Charged With Attempted MurderAugust 2, 2012 at 11:20 am by Morbid
OAKLEY , CA – A 17–year-old has been accused of trying to kill his friend after the two got into a heated argument while on Xbox Live.
Kevin Kemp, 20, says he was chatting with the family friend on Xbox Live when the discussion turned into an argument. The argument was not about a game, but rather a longstanding feud between the two. Fighting words were exchanged and Kemp told the teen to jump if he was feeling froggy.
"I'm like, 'Bro, if want to do this, come over to my house and we'll do this right now,'" Kemp said.
Kemp heard the teen's headset hit the floor and was surprised at how fast he covered the short distance between their houses. He was also surprised to learn that the teen was not there for a fistfight when he walked through his front door with a gun in one hand, and a knife in the other. After pushing past Kemp's mother, the teen walked up to Kemp's bedroom, took aim, and fired.…
Felony Sex Crime Suspect Stabs Himself In Neck Before Being Shot By CopsJuly 30, 2012 at 1:19 pm by Morbid
MODESTO, CA - A 68-year-old felony sex crime suspect has died after repeatedly stabbing himself in the neck before being shot by police earlier this month.
On July 12, David Mendez was visited by a uniformed officer and Detective Steve Anderson, who works on the Special Victims Unit. Mendez was a suspect in a sex crime and Anderson had interviewed Mendez previously. He was there today, with the other officer, to arrest Mendez.
Mendez answered the door and briefly spoke with the two men. He said he knew he would be arrested after they had completed their investigation and that he had written a confession. Mendez then walked to a nearby desk and retrieved a 12-inch "diver's knife" that he used to repeatedly stab himself in the neck. According to Lt. Rick Armendariz, Mendez "repeatedly thrust the knife in and out, holding the knife with both his hands."
Refusing to obey the officer's demand to stop doing that, Mendez was Tased. This did not prove to be effective and Mendez continued to stab himself.…
Woman Stabbed Husband After Fighting Over Cosmopolitan Magazine QuizJune 14, 2012 at 11:52 am by Morbid
MESA, AZ – A woman in Arizona has been accused of stabbing her husband in the back after the couple got into an argument over one of those dumbass Cosmo quizzes.
Noelle Clough, 23, called police on Monday saying that her husband was cut in the back and needed stitches. According to the police report, while she was on the phone she said her husband was choking her so she stabbed him.
When police arrived they found Clough's husband suffering from a stab wound to the back. When police approached Clough, she informed them that she was a monster and asked to be shot and locked up forever. She told the responding officers that she and her husband had been drinking for a while when they began arguing over a Cosmo quiz and ex-lovers.
She said that the argument became more heated and that her husband threw two knives on the kitchen floor and instructed her to stab him. As he was walking away, she says she meant to cut her husband with a 4-inch blade paring knife, but accidentally stabbed him instead.…
Father Asks Kids For A Hug After He Stabbed Their Mother To DeathJune 13, 2012 at 11:20 am by Morbid
Grove City, OH – Police received a call from a 13-year-old boy on Sunday morning, telling the dispatcher that his father had just stabbed his mother to death and had instructed him to call 911.
"My dad just killed my mom. He just told me to call you guys," the boy can be heard telling a 911 dispatcher. "He just ran outside and killed my mom and she's laying in the grass in front of the apartment."
The boy's father, 38-year-old Jeremy Roberts, allegedly chased his ex-wife, Candice Roberts, outside his apartment and stabbed her to death in front of their children. She was there that morning to pick up her kids.
Eventually Roberts gets on the line and tells the dispatcher his wife is under a blanket and that the weapon he used was outside by her body. When the dispatcher asks about what he did, Roberts calmly tells her they will see when they show up.
For the rest of the five-minute 911 call, Roberts can be heard telling his children that they have a big sister who will take care of them.…
Crazy Tweeker Charged After Getting All Stab Happy On Random MotoristMay 25, 2012 at 11:14 am by Jaded
Everett, WA — The looker to the left is 25-year-old Ambrosia Riche – she's been accused of jumping into a random car and gettin' all kinds of stabby on the dumbfounded driver, leaving him dazed, confused and holey.
According to witnesses, Riche had been seen wandering up and down the street just moments before the bizarre attack, trying to get into several cars. At one point, witnesses say, she jumped on the hood of a passing vehicle but the driver managed to safely "shake her off."
Along came our victim, Richard Lynn…
Lynn told police he was slowing down at a stop sign when Riche lunged through an open rear window and attacked, stabbing him numerous times in the head, chest and arm.
Lynn was able to scramble out of the vehicle, but Riche was right on his heels, stabbing away.
Poor dude suffered six stab wounds to the back of his head and two to his chest and arm before he was able to disarm the crazy lady. Bystanders rushed to his aid, and Riche was left standing in the intersection, ranting unintelligibly.…
After Being Fatally Stabbed By Best Friend, Woman Kills Best Friend's Child With CarMay 21, 2012 at 10:25 am by Morbid
CLEVELAND, OH – Here's a crazy one out of Cleveland where a woman has been accused of stabbing her best friend while she sat behind the wheel of a car. The stabbed woman then tried to hit her attacker with her car, but hit her attacker's 2-year-old daughter instead. The woman and the toddler both died.
The incident happened on Thursday night when 29-year-old Kimberly Black and her best friend, 29-year-old Sharice Swain, got into an argument while sitting in a running car parked in Black's driveway. Police say Black left the vehicle, retrieved a knife from her home, and then fatally stabbed Swain in the face and neck.
As neighbors ran to assist Swain, she stepped on the gas in an attempt to run over Black, but ended up hitting Black's two daughters, 2-year-old Kimshia Ruffin and 1-year-old Taraji Ruffin, before running into Black's home and collapsing part of the roof.
For reasons unknown, Black stripped naked and stood in the street holding both of her injured toddlers. One neighbor says she picked up a bloody, broken Kimisha after Black dropped her and cradled her until help arrived.…
Teen Accused Of Stabbing Her 4-Year-Old Cousin To DeathMay 8, 2012 at 2:00 pm by Morbid
INDIANAPOLIS, IN – A community is reeling after a 14-year-old girl stabbed her 4-year-old cousin to death.
According to reports, Leon "Tater" Thomas III and his 11-year-old sister were at their grandparents, where their 14-year-old cousin also lived, when the stabbing took place.
The kids were in a front room of the two-story apartment while the grandparents were upstairs. Leon's sister ran upstairs to get them when the older girl's temper started to get out of control over reasons unknown. When she returned downstairs, she found that her cousin had repeatedly stabbed Leon.
The boy was rushed to the hospital, but would die later that day. The 14-year-old suspect was found shortly afterward walking down the street several blocks away, covered in blood.
She was taken to the Marion County Juvenile Detention Center on a preliminary charge of murder. Her detention hearing is scheduled to take place today, where it will be decided if she should remain detained and when prosecutors can ask that she be transferred to adult court.…
Woman Accused Of Cutting Off Man's Genitals Before Stabbing Him To DeathMay 2, 2012 at 9:22 am by Morbid
Dallas, TX – Police have charged a 28-year-old woman with murder after they say she cut off a man's genitals before stabbing him to death while in a Texas motel room.
A security guard at a Motel 6 contacted police to report he had heard a loud argument going on between a man and women in one of the motel's third-floor rooms. He told them that when he went to investigate, he witnessed Cristal Richardson walking down the hall naked and covered in blood.
Responding police were let into the room by the motel manager, and there they found the dead body of 34-year-old Cedric Owens. According to the medical report, Owens had suffered, "multiple stab wounds to his upper body, his throat was cut and there was traumatic amputation of the penis and scrotum."
Richardson was treated at the hospital for minor, offensive injuries to her hands before being booked on a charge of murder with bond set at $200,000.
The two were casual acquaintances who both have criminal records that include assault and drug related convictions. …
Grandmother's Last Words To Stabby Grandson: "I Love You"April 30, 2012 at 2:21 pm by Jaded
Lake Wales, FL — Christopher Whaley, 23, is in police custody after reportedly admitting to fatally stabbing his grandmother as she bathed Saturday evening.
The proverbial sh*t apparently hit the fan shortly after a verbal confrontation between Whaley, his grandmother, 69-year-old Barbara Denmark, and another relative as the family was preparing to return home from a mini-vacation in Daytona Beach.
"Chris is exceptionally angry because he's been forced to come home and couldn't stay with new best friends," said Sheriff Grady Judd. "So angry that he decided to kill his grandma who he'd been living with for the last five years."
Family members told police that Whaley lived with Denmark for the last five years because, due to his "mischievous" behavior, she was the only one that would take him in. Shocking.
Anyway, upon his return home, Whaley began plotting. He decided to off grandma first, then figured he'd head on over to the aunt's house and kill her, too.
With a knife in each hand, Whaley allegedly entered his grandmother's bathroom and proceeded to slash and stab, leaving the woman with nearly 25 stab wounds.…
Woman Stabs Infant In Neck During Supervised VisitApril 27, 2012 at 11:31 am by Caustic
Baltimore – A Baltimore woman was able to smuggle a kitchen knife into a Department of Social Services and then used it to stab her 8 month old child in the face, chest and neck.
Kenisha Thomas, 29, was at the Baltimore Social Services office having a supervised visit with her infant daughter that she no longer has custody of.
Visitors are supposed to pass through a metal detector and are subjected to bag screenings, but as the end of their visit ticked away she pulled out a long, wood handled kitchen knife and started stabbing her baby in the neck and face.
Hearing screams of help, co-workers rushed into the conference room to see the mother holding the infant on the table and pressing the blade of the knife to her throat. Kenisha was met with a chair to the face and pinned to the ground until help could arrive.
Kenisha being the lady she is, exclaimed, "I hope my baby is dead!" and then proceeded to bite the man who was holding her down. …
Woman Stabbed Man Because She Was Sick Of Cooking For HimMarch 22, 2012 at 8:11 am by Rebekah Herzberg
Lake Worth, FL – Lisa Cherry, 46, was arrested on Monday after allegedly stabbing a man during an argument over how sick she was of cooking for him.
Police report that the 56-year-old male victim said Cherry began drinking beer and throwing food out the door because she was sick of cooking for him. He admitted to taking away her beer and threatening to cut her pony tail off if she didn't stop throwing things.
Cherry allegedly picked up a kitchen knife and cut the home's phone line before stabbing the man in the left hand. He refused to go to the hospital so his injury was treated at the scene.
The victim's sister witnessed the stabbing and collaborated her brother's account of the assault. Lisa Cherry was apprehended after trying to run from deputies and is being held at the Palm Beach County Jail with a bond set at $1,000. She faces aggravated battery charges with a deadly weapon.
It's psychotic moments like this that make some men terrified to ask their chemically imbalanced women the age-old question, "Honey, what's for dinner?"…
Teen Who Blamed Devil For The Murder Of Child And Cellmate Pleads Not GuiltyMarch 21, 2012 at 2:33 pm by Morbid
Las Vegas, NV –Last year I posted about Carl Guilford, the teenager who claimed the devil made him suffocate his 6-year-old cousin to death and then later stab his cellmate to death with a pencil. On Monday, he pleaded not guilty.
His attorney, Deputy Public Defender Norman Reed, intends to argue that his client is not guilty by reason of insanity even though his client was determined to be sane enough to stand trial.
For those of you who may have missed this story when we reported it last August, Guilford, then 18-years-old, was arrested and charged with suffocating his 6-year-old cousin. He said that after he killed the boy, the Devil told him "well done."
After being arrested for that murder, he was placed in a cell at the Clark County Detention Center with Francesco Sanfilippo, a 39-year-old who had gotten busted possessing child pornography.
A few weeks later, Guilford attacked Sanfilippo as he sat at a table and began stabbing the man in the neck with a pencil.…
Man Tells Police He Gutted Neighbor With "Big-Ass Knife" After DisagreementMarch 19, 2012 at 8:08 am by Jaded
Tampa, FL — Steve Lott, 30, was taken into custody Tuesday after he apparently called 911 to report he had cut his neighbor with a "big-ass knife" because the man had entered his home.
When police arrived on scene, they found 56-year-old Tony Jackson suffering from a massive wound to the gut. So massive, police say, his internal organs and intestines were visible and/or falling out.
According to investigators, after a long standing dispute with Jackson, Lott had finally had enough and walked over to the man's home and opened up his gut with his big-ass, razor-sharp knife.
Police say Lott resisted arrest and was tasered while being taken into custody. And though he later admitted to quarreling with Jackson, he denied stabbing the guy. Lott is now facing charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and resisting an officer without violence.
Prosecutors have asked for increased bond, calling Lott a habitual violent offender. (Lott spent a year in prison after he was convicted of assaulting a pregnant woman with a deadly weapon and holding her captive in his home back in '07).…
Teen Stabbing Suspect Tells Police Ouija Board Made Him Do ItMarch 17, 2012 at 1:26 pm by Jaded
Weslaco, TX — A 15-year-old boy accused of poking a hole in his pal's gut is apparently trying to convince police an Ouija board made him do it.
The teen was hanging out with a couple friends late last month, when he allegedly stabbed the 14-year-old victim in the gut with a 4-inch knife, causing a severe laceration to the boy's intestine.
Afterwards, police say, the alleged stabber walked the stabbee to a nearby auto repair shop, where an ambulance was summoned.
A third teen claims to have witnessed the pokin', and later told police he heard the alleged stabber tell the victim to pretend he had fallen on the blade.
The 15-year-old, who police say has no criminal background or questionable mental health history, reportedly told police he poked his friend because an Ouija board commanded it.
Weslaco police spokesman J.P. Rodriguez admits that the case is "a little eerie" but said investigators believe the boy used the Ouija board to rationalize the attack.
"He actually believed what the Ouija board advised him, that the friend was the cause of his problems," Rodriguez said.…
Mom Blames 'Evil Presence' For Daughter's Stabbing DeathMarch 14, 2012 at 7:51 am by Jaded
Las Vegas, NV — A woman accused of stabbing her 6-year-old daughter to death with a pair of scissors reportedly told police she did so because she felt an "evil presence" in her home and believed her child may have been possessed by a demon.
After being found naked on the streets of Las Vegas, covered in blood from what she claimed was "the Lamb of God," 27-year-old Danielle Slaughter apparently expressed disbelief that she had disposed of her child in such a way.
"Did I kill my daughter? Is she dead?" Slaughter questioned police, later claiming that "wasn't like her."
Slaughter, who apparently began taking the dietary supplement Hydroxycut about four days prior to the murder, reportedly told police she had felt an evil presence in the home and claimed "she never felt this way before," she just wanted to remove the evil from the house.
Slaughter claims 6-year-old Kyla Franks began speaking and laughing in an evil voice Sunday evening. When Kyla began kicking and clawing at her, Slaughter said, she grabbed a pair of scissors and stabbed the girl multiple times.…
Man Charged With Killing Neighbor Over Dog FecesMarch 5, 2012 at 11:11 am by Morbid
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A man has been accused of stabbing his neighbor to death after an argument over dog shit, making this the second story this year involving disputes over dog defecation.
Police say that sometime around 10 a.m. Sunday, 37-year-old Robert Wright took his dog out for a walk. Witnesses say he got into an argument with his next-door neighbor, 56-year-old Ellsworth Colbert, after Wright's dog crapped in his yard.
I cannot find any articles stating anyone witnessed Colbert stabbing Wright, but Wright was found minutes later suffering from stab wounds. He was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
An hour later, Colbert was arrested and later charged with second degree murder while armed.
Colbert was a volunteer worker for the D.C. City Council campaign of Kevin B. Chavous, an insignificant point being brought up by most news articles leading to Chavous releasing the following statement:
"The first thing I want to say is that my deepest condolences go out to Mr. Wright's family. This is an awful tragedy.…
Police: Teen Shot Grandmother With Crossbow, Stabbed Her Nearly 100 TimesFebruary 9, 2012 at 12:09 pm by Jaded
Lake Wales, FL — A teen accused of brutally murdering his 67-year-old grandmother, shooting the woman in the back of the head with a crossbow and stabbing her approximately 93 times, apparently did so because he was pissed off at his uncle.
Jasper Aristotle Smiddie, 19, was taken into custody Wednesday after confessing the alleged crime to his father.
According to police, Smiddie initially intended to kill his uncle, but decided to take his anger out on grandma instead. That way, police say, his uncle would have to live with the death of his mother for the rest of his life.
Police said Smiddie, who lived with his grandmother, Gloria Helfrich, as well as his uncle, confronted the woman in her bedroom on Tuesday. He first fired the crossbow, then repeatedly stabbed the woman in the back, neck and face. He then left the room, but returned a short time later to bash the woman in the face with a wrench.
In what police are calling a "bizarre twist," Smiddie locked his grandmother's bedroom door and waited for his uncle to get home.…


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Norm Uhl will no longer be spinning HISD.Winner of Best Flack in last year's Best of Houston® issue, Houston school district spokesman Norm Uhl is now out of a job. He was fired by the district. We gave the award to Uhl, a former KHOU reporter, because he seemed willing to battle what had ... More >>
Official Whote House photoAnyone want a speaker? Anyone?A news item today, gleefully highlighted by the Drudge Report, noted an internal Obama administration memo bemoaning the lack of offers from high schools for the president to give the commencement speech. We're thinking this probably fa ... More >>
Snowmageddon comethGet ready for snickers from the Midwest and Northeast, if they possibly get this news through the tons of ice and snow they're buried under: HISD is canceling all soccer games for the rest of the week. Soccer is the only outdoor sport going on now, and afternoon temps migh ... More >>
An all-girls' school for HISD?The Houston school district is considering a school limited only to girls, a district spokesman says. A public meeting Monday night will discuss the possibility, Norm Uhl said. The district already has an all-boys charter school, but an organization called The ... More >>
Some being left behindAnother week, another bunch of statistics and reports on public school district performance.Today it's a report on how districts are doing in making progress towards a 2014 deadline to meet standards in the No Child Left Behind Act.For two years, the Houston school district ... More >>
Photo courtesy wikipedia Lee High School: Bricks started falling from the facadeLee High School is almost 50 years old, and it doesn't seem to be aging well.In fact, it's sinking.Worse, the two distinct parts of the building are sinking at different rates."The building has been declared sa ... More >>
Constables go after HISD students' unreturned books
The long arm of the law is coming for youIrma Alvarez was at work on Thursday, June 17 when her cousin called her to say a uniformed officer was at the door, demanding the return of the textbooks Alvarez's son still had after the end of the school year. Alvarez had received notice by mail that p ... More >>
HISD's maintenance department needs some fixing upHouston ISD's maintenance department, officially known as the Construction and Facility Services Department suffers from low morale, a lack of any kind of plan, and hasn't had an appraisal review for more than two years. Some "interim managers" h ... More >>
Holly Gologhtly wouldn't throw out the food HISD doesAs Breakfast in the Classroom spreads across the breadth and width of the Houston ISD, Superintendent Terry Grier has announced he's been getting some "push back" from parents and educators who aren't embracing the plan.Critics -- most from som ... More >>
Gallegos is writing, but he's not hearing back from GrierState Senator Mario Gallegos has continued to dictate letters since calling for Houston ISD superintendent Terry Grier to leave in an earlier letter, saying Grier was going to ruin the lives of students here.In his latest set of letters -- ... More >>
Few details are available on the blaze right nowThere's a smoky fire at the LyondellBasel plant southeast of town, and most educational experts that learning shouldn't take place next to a smoky fire at a chemical plant.As many as eight HISD schools could be affected by fumes, depending on which ... More >>
Plus: Rites of Bellaire - It's not hazing, it's fun
Welcome to the Bellaire High volleyball team!Here's what you need to bring if you go to the annual Bellaire High School girls' freshmen volleyball team sleepover: Whipped cream, chocolate pudding, a plastic tarp and plenty of Saran Wrap. No, you sick bastard, not for any immoral purposes, bu ... More >>
Pershing Middle School is not exactly in one of the Houston school district's most rugged areas -- it's near West U, for crying out loud. But Pershing was the location for a relatively rare middle-school stabbing between two students today.Before school this morning, in the schoolyard, we had two ... More >>
You knew something like this was gonna happen as soon as Obama was elected: There is a drug epidemic among seven-year-olds. You have to define an epidemic as "one kid," but still, that seems like one kid more than we would have guessed would be picked up for weed possession at an HISD school ... More >>
Photo courtesy HISDIs the Houston ISD Police Department about to expand its drug interdiction efforts to include the seizure of teachers' and students' cars and trucks? No, HISD has no plans for that, a laughing district spokesman Norm Uhl said this morning. Last night the board approved two m ... More >>
There's been more fallout from the Houston school district's investigation into whether a principal at Key Middle School may have improperly tampered with TAKS scores and then tried to cover it up.HISD spokesman Norm Uhl tells Hair Balls six district employees have been reassigned since the Thurs ... More >>
Further discussions of what organizers are calling "systemic illegal referrals of students to CEP/alternative disciplinary education on the basis of forged government documents" at Reagan High School will be just one of hot-button agenda items tonight at a suddenly called meeting of "over 100 ... More >>
The Houston school district provided some anecdotal evidence of how many parents ordered their kids not to watch President Obama's speech on education (Westside represent!!), but we wondered if there was a little more info to be gleaned.The district put up on its website a link to a form that cou ... More >>
Photo courtesy HISDThe Houston school board plans to vote later today on $121.5 million in school improvements over and above the projects approved in the 2007 bond election.Because each of the nine trustee districts has exactly the same amount of overcrowding/undercrowding and facilities in need ... More >>
HISD is releasing some scattered statistics on how many parents sent in "opt-out" forms so their children could remain God-fearing Americans instead of becoming Communist by listening to a president tell them to stay in school.District spokesman Norm Uhl says no survey of the district's 300 ... More >>
We have word from HISD spokesman Norm Uhl that the district might officially name the new superintendent at 2 o'clock. If the choice is Terry Grier, as it's been reported, some people are already unhappy. (Update: It is.) "I'm very disappointed in the board," State Sen. Mario Gallegos, who serves ... More >>
HISD is expanding its at-home learning program, whereby kids from across the state (mostly home-schoolers) can get a tuition-free educational curriculum monitored by a certified teacher via computer and phone.The district partners with the Texas Connections Academy to offer the program, which is the ... More >>
Turns out, Houston ISD superintendent Abe Saavedra sent out an e-mail to district administrators last Friday, giving them his last day news. HISD spokesman Norm Uhl found out about it Friday afternoon and planned to release the news today, "but the Bellaire Examiner got a tip and scooped me. G ... More >>
Travis Elementary's swine-flu heyday came just as the topic was losing its national cachet, but the school made the most of it -- closing completely after days of frantic parents keeping their kids home, leaving the school a ghost town.At first HISD said a weekend scrub-down would be enough to set t ... More >>
Photo courtesy of WikipediaTravis Elementary, the school where one kid after another was coming down with or thinking he was coming down with swine flu, was supposed to open next Tuesday to finish out the year in some sort of style. That's not going to happen now, Norm Uhl, spokesman for the Houst ... More >>
Even more kids are out at Travis Elementary today, HISD spokesman Norm Uhl tells Hair Balls -- of the 712 registered, 378 stayed home today. Another dozen felt sick at school, went to the clinic and were sent home.Oddly, teachers don't seem to be affected: Only two are out sick. (Another two are hom ... More >>
The hallways are pretty empty today at Travis Elementary near the Woodland Heights. Of the 712 students there, 242 are out sick.It can't be a Senior Skip Day, so what is up, HISD?"Twenty-six additional students at Travis were sent home sick today bringing the total to 242," spokesman Norm Uhl tells ... More >>
Another HISD school has declared total victory in the battle against swine flu (No political correctness here, pork industry!!). Harvard Elementary in the Heights, one of the first district schools to close down, will reopen tomorrow.The city's health department has given the OK for the move, HISD s ... More >>
HISD has announced two schools have closed until further notice because of possible -- but not confirmed -- cases of swine flu.Harvard Elementary and Hamilton Middle School, both in the Heights, are the schools."Late last night the City of Houston Health Department informed HISD Superintendent Abela ... More >>
HISD is working on its first swine flu evacuation, which started with about an hour left of TAKS testing. The students at Lyons Elementary will have to take the whole thing over again, according to district spokesman Norm Uhl. The infected child that caused the evacuation wasn't at school today, but ... More >>
Photo by mikebairdEarlier this week, Governor Rick Perry called a press conference to announce the results of last spring's statewide Fitnessgram assessment of Texas public-school students. According to a press release, the results were based on six tests "taken by more then two million students in ... More >>
The Houston school district is coming under heavy fire for its "no-tolerance" drug-dog searches of school parking lots, mostly because they nabbed a popular West U teacher who is very likely to be proven innocent.West U residents, when they get up in arms, tend to get results. HISD superintendent Ab ... More >>
It's been a tough time for HISD's drug-sniffing dog (today's name: Cocainey).Even though he's been out every school day since December 11 -- district spokesman Norm Uhl tells Hair Balls more than a third of HISD's parking lots have been searched in that time -- he's been coming up empty.Today, thoug ... More >>
Even though our noble effort to get the drug-addled teaching corps of HISD free detailing at Bubbles Car Wash ultimately failed, it appears the need for clean ultimately got through.HISD spokesman Norm Uhl reports that Cracky the drug-sniffing dog (our name for him this week) has searched 58 school ... More >>
It's no longer news when an HISD teacher or employee gets nabbed by Druggy, the drug-sniffing dog. (At least that's we call him.)Which means it is news when no one gets arrested. And that's what happened today.Fourteen campuses searched, no arrests.That means a) Druggy has a stuffy nose; b) Even tho ... More >>
The bad news: Another Houston teacher has been busted for pot.The good news: Let's look at the media alert from interim spokesman Norm Uhl -- Based on an anonymous tip, HISD PD's K-9 unit searched the parking lot at Woodson MS. One teacher has been arrested for possession of marijuana. I am on my wa ... More >>
HISD has the world's busiest sniffer dog
We were baffled.Here it was, pushing hard towards 3 p.m., and no one had yet been arrested on an HISD campus for drugs. That didn't seem right, so we e-mailed district spokesman Norm Uhl.Incredibly enough, he reported back that it was, indeed, true:
Houston school officials want to be very clear -- the latest employees arrested for drugs were not teachers at a northwest side charter school.Their desire to make the point clear is understandable, given that so many teachers and staffers have been nabbed for pot lately.So let's emphasize -- the tw ... More >>
What is it with HISD teachers and pot these days? A month ago, a middle-school assistant principal gets nabbed for growing dope in his home. Now, a pair of teachers at Williams Middle School (Northwest side represent!) are making friends in county due to a meddling tipster and a drug-sniffing dog.
Mount Carmel High School looked like it was about to close earlier this year. The Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston could no longer afford to keep it open after 52 years. The Houston school district came in and agreed to partner with Mount Carmel as a charter school and the doors stayed open. Only ... More >>
The Houston Independent School District has another information session planned for Monday, October 27 to talk about the alternative certification path for a teaching career. All you need is a bachelor's degree and an interest in teaching. According to Interim Press Secretary Norm Uhl, the progra ... More >>
And all this time we thought HISD Abe Saavedra's outreach to dropouts was just in the kids' best interest. Turns out, it can be a money maker as well – or at least that's the pitch made in a July 31, 2008 letter to the superintendent from a local attorney speaking on behalf of the private al ... More >>
Most of Houston's schools opened today -- 120 campuses -- but not all of them are in tip-top shape. Three schools are operating on generator power, HISD says -- Harvard Elementary in the Heights, Kashmere High on the northeast side of town and Westbury High on the southwest side. "We managed to se ... More >>
Remember that image after Hurricane Katrina of all those New Orleans school buses underwater? Kudos to the Houston Independent School District for taking steps to prevent that from happening here. "HISD's Transportation Department parked all of our buses on high ground in tight formations, w ... More >>
Word has just come down -- HISD is closed tomorrow. Spokesman Norm Uhl says tonight's board meeting will go on as scheduled, though. Some things are just too important to stop. Update: And some things aren't. Except for a pro forma vote on a bond matter, the board meeting has been put off until S ... More >>
Hurricane Ike has claimed his first Houston-area victims -- high-school football fans. HISD is canceling all athletic events and field trips this weekend (Friday, Saturday and Sunday). In addition, any games requiring teams to travel outside of Harris County tomorrow night are canceled. "The decis ... More >>
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- Transplant_DK Dec 9, 2011 10:35 PM
Would you ever consider inviting a stranger to dinner out?
I was having an interesting conversation with someone the other night, and this question came up. Here's the scenario:
You travel a lot on business and often find yourself walking around town late in the afternoon following a day of meetings with people you don't know. You're mind is on finding a good restaurant, but you wish you didn't have to dine alone so often. You spot a pleasant looking couple that are obviously tourists and you consider going up and asking if they'd like to join you at the steak house across the street. You offer to treat them to the meal, naturally.
Would you be so daring? Or would you be afraid that they would think you were a freak of nature?
What would you do if you were the couple? Would you assume it's some kind of scam and run the other way, or see it as a chance to meet a nice person and have a good meal?
I think I'd be kinda nervous, as the female half of the couple, if a stranger appeared and offered us dinner, but less so if we'd been in a bar and had been talking for the best part of an hour or so - that might not feel so weird.
I can't tell by just looking at someone whether I'd want to spend 90 minutes talking to him or her. So I'd neither offer nor accept an invitation-as-introduction. But as smartie says, if it were someone I already "knew" from the bar, sure, why not?
I have had meals and have even been invited to stay over with people out of town that I met not long before. During a train strike in France I struck up a conversation with a couple of waiting passengers and I wound up not only taking one out to dinner but staying over as well.
Also I have had meals with out-of-town Chowhounds who I had never met before.
I have had meals with total strangers at crowded downtown lunch places where table sharing is essential, and I have had meals at communal tables where that is a given as well.
But I am not interested in having meals with total strangers for simply the companionship.
re: beevod
That's so funny! I was thinking the same thing. When I'm on business trips, I enjoy being AWAY from people. A book is a perfect companion. I hate making small talk.
After spending the day in meetings with people I don't know, the last thing I would want to do is spend my dinner time with more people I don't know. I think I'd take my book (novel, magazine, whatever - that is a requirement for traveling), pick up something yummy and eat in a park if it's nice out, or go to a warm cozy quiet restaurant and curl up in a booth with my book and my dinner.
"Would you be so daring? Or would you be afraid that they would think you were a freak of nature?"
No, and more or less inappropriate.
"What would you do if you were the couple? Would you assume it's some kind of scam and run the other way, or see it as a chance to meet a nice person and have a good meal?"
Even if I don't think it is a scam, I would feel uncomfortable about the question. I actually have eaten with strangers many times (more than 10 for sure) -- but they were unplanned event, not asked. I sometime go to lower tier restaurants, where I would be asked by the waiter or waiter if it is alright that I share with a table with someone. I am ok with that, have not once turned these offers down, and sometime made decent conversations with the strangers.
However, I don't think I would direct invitation from someone on the street, nor would I accept a direct invitation from a stranger on the street.
Interesting responses, thanks! I am perfectly content to eat alone, especially if I've been at meetings all day so I either take a book or find a place where I can sit and watch the world go by while I eat. This man I was speaking to seems to hate even asking for a table for 1, however, and says he has honestly considered asking strangers to join him for a meal. My question was why not ask one of the people he'd met at the meetings, since there would at least be that common ground.
I'm quite sure my introvert is showing, but I really can't imagine feeling so desperate for company that I'd invite a stranger--or accept such an invitation. I'd probably worry it were a scam, or worse.
re: Transplant_DK
I recently went to a conference where there were organized 'dinner groups' every night: one could sign up to have dinner at a designated restaurant with other conference participants. I didn't go to one of those dinners (although I was part of a group of colleagues who knew each other and organized our own group dinner for one of the conference nights), but I can see the value in terms of networking. I wouldn't choose to do it just to avoid eating alone, however. That is what eating at the bar is for. :-)
re: Transplant_DK
OK, this is different than your OP.
To the OP I would have answered "God no"
However, if you are at a conference and you meet some people there that somehow you connect with .. sure. From the OP it sounded like you meant strangers on the street .. and God no.
Even in the OP, why in hell should you "offer to treat them to the meal, naturally"
No, no, no. You would just say that you are dining somewhere and would you like to meet for dinner and clarify that it would be separate checks. Why the hell would you assume you need to pay? That actually would creep me out.
If this guy is so desparate for company, tell him to eat at the bar. Usually you meet people there and at the worst at least you have the bartender to talk to.
I would NEVER accept an absolute stranger on the street asking me to dinner ... and then offering to pay for it ... Lord ... my mind would be racing a million miles a minute wondering what the catch was and if I was going to be alive the next morning.
Seriously ... how well do you know this person? Either he is socially inept to the EXTREME, not a US Citizen (rules are different in various countries ... ask me about getting a hotel from a stranger that chased down our car in Guatemala ... jeeez), or ... dangerous.
re: Transplant_DK
What you are saying here is a completely different scenario than you gave in the OP. If you are having a meeting with someone, they're not a complete stranger after the meeting (and I would assume there is some commonality between the two of you since you're meeting for some reason). You also already have a feel for whether or not they would be good dining companions or that you would have a good rapport at the dinner table. That's is in no way similar to walking up to strange tourists on the street and asking them if you can treat them to dinner. One makes total sense, the other is completely bizarre.
If you would have given this scenario in your OP instead of the one you did, I don't think the responses would have been so "interesting". I think many more people would be comfortable asking a colleague, even if newly acquainted with them, to join them for dinner. This happened to me many times when traveling for work (and I especially appreciated it when abroad). However, if anyone ever came up to Mr. Gardencook and me on the street and asked us to join them for dinner, I'd run the other way.
I wouldn't mind finding a restaurant with a communal table.
But inviting a complete stranger or strangers to dinner with me? No.
never ever.
not only because i'm deeply introverted but also eating/enjoying a meal is a very intimate thing.
All of the above, plus as a woman who travels alone frequently, NFW.
I eventually got to a point traveling solo as a woman that I didn't even go to the bar in the hotel for a glass of wine after a long and/or difficult day. There are, sadly, still a good number of Neanderthals who believe that a woman sitting at a bar - even one wearing a suit in the bar at a nice business hotel -- is gagging for male companionship and is therefore fair game. After a couple of bad experiences, I just gave up. (I was usually sitting at a table with a book -- not making eye contact with any of them, conservatively dressed -- and yes, it pisses me off that I can't just go have a damned drink without having to deal with some legend-in-his-own mind Lothario.)
No way I'd stand in the path of an oncoming train by inviting a stranger to share my table.
re: sunshine842
re: sunshine842
Oh boy can I relate to this ... when I was travelling for biz.
re: Gio
+1, and I really REALLY HATE when you come to the host stand by yourself, and they say "JUST 1"? I mean, can't they say something more positive, like "ma'm?, a table for one?"
Why the negative connotation of 'just one?', which I have heard so often that now I shoot back ' "not JUST one - the one and only!"
re: gingershelley
Well, often groups drop off that early scout to snag a table. Maybe a better pharse would be "How many will be in your party?" Then you could reply "I'll be dinining alone tonight".
Some of the better places I've been to when traveling will ask when I sit down and order if I would like a newspaper or magazine.
re: rworange
i agree. it is very common for a single to be joining a larger group or waiting for someone to park the car or asking about seating in a bar/lounge area. the host can't read the customer's mind. the customer could always be proactive and say: "good evening, table for one, please," or "hi, do you have a table for one available?" i don't think that the passive-aggressive route with the "gotcha" response from the customer is very helpful, and it could actually get things off to a very bad start.
re: soupkitten
Well, it is allready off to a bad start for ME, the diner, if before I can even speak, the host/ess has said the dreaded 'just one?" comment. I am suprised how often it has been said to me... at least a dozen.
I would think like several of you - that I may just be the first of a party checking in for a larger reservation or something - that's why I find it so odd. It seems like poor customer service on their part.
Usually it is a younger gal who says it - sometimes I wonder if they just don't think and at that age it has never occured to them that people dine out alone when travelling on business sometimes.
My tone makes clear I am not upset, and I always answer with a smile, but hope that my reply will get them to thinking about the language they are using to greet someone alone.
re: gingershelley
I agree with you. At least in my case, the FOH makes a lasting "first impression," and would hope that it is a good one. This is an area, too often overlooked by management, but it's important to me.
re: gingershelley
I dine alone frequently and have heard the "just one" phrase frequently.
It doesn't bother me in the least. If it helps, remember that it is basically an inexperienced/young person who is thinking more about what section to seat you in rather than passing an opinion on your dining status. True, there are better ways to phrase the question, but to do so requires a greater degree of awareness than what many of these folks are able to pull together on the spot.
Perhaps you are dining alone when you would prefer not to? If so, try to find a way to relish the situation and the question won't be "dreaded".
re: meatn3
That is a shame. Maybe specific to some restaurants, or perhaps a gender-thing?
I would be offended too.
In my "dining alone" situations, I would definitely prefer that my wife were with me, but about 18 times per year, that is not possible, so I make the best of the situation. At least I do get to scope out some neat restaurants, and then take her back to the "winners."
re: gingershelley
I have never encountered that "JUST!," but maybe I have just been fortunate, or perhaps being a male has something to do with it?
Now, except for breakfast and often lunch, at a resort, I normally have reservations for one, so they should know that I am very likely solo. If someone IS joining me, after the reservations, I always call, to bump thing up, but the restaurant might not know that.
I'll keep my ears "peeled," to see if I can pick up such.
re: Bill Hunt
I was hoping other CH'ers would be able to share they had this same experience.
It doesn't happen when I have a reservation, and certainly more likely in a 'lesser' establishment. Of course, I don't dine in very many high-end restaurants alone.
Dining alone is usually only when at a biz. event somewhere out of town, and that's when due to circustances, can end up in a dreaded 'better' chain resto due to convenience near hotel, etc.
re: gingershelley
I once had an awesome 'just one' experience, but on the slopes: I was a beginner-to-intermediate skier still taking lessons. My group of friends wanted to go skiing at Schweitzer over President's Day weekend. I was skiing with my girlfriend who was more advanced than me. I felt I was slowing her down so I told her to go hit the harder slopes, I'd be fine. That meant I had to go on a ski lift all by myself. I had been told to tell the chair lift person if you were alone, and if you were getting off at the half-way point, so that you could seated correctly (right or left). I got on, I said 'I'm alone and getting off halfway'.
She snaps back 'please sit on the left and I hope you meet someone'. :o) It still gives me warm tingles to this day.
re: pdxgastro
Yikes, pdx...
Here in WA, when I go skiing, I am usually seperated from my BF - who is a crack snowboarder, while I am these days at best, an intermediate skiier.
We have seperations in the lines for 'singles and groups; it is really easy here at most ski slopes to figure out how to see who is with folks, or join in a single or pair for the three-lift", or two singles together.
But, I know the feeling!
re: gingershelley
I may be wrong, but I think I've heard "only the two of you?" when dh and I were alone as much as I've heard "just one?" when dining alone. I've never thought to be sensitive to being asked that way. I dine out alone about twice a month (lunch, usually) these days, but did so very often when I traveled for work. I think I was just so glad to be able to enjoy a quiet meal alone with my book that I wasn't really thinking of how I was greeted at the host/ess stand or by the maître d'. I'll have to pay more attention. As long as the greeting is prompt and courteous, I haven't paid close attention in the past. Interesting observation.
re: gardencook
Ninety-nine percent of the time, we have reservations for a party of two, and I have never heard that phrase. If the FOH cannot look at the reservations list, then I am not impressed.
Before I was married, I traveled alone often. Sometimes it was on business trips, other times for pleasure.
Some of my finest memories are of meals I shared with total strangers.
Often the meals were at crowded, popular restaurants where I'd have to wait in line.
By nature, I chat. Often I'd just start by asking people next to me in line questions about their city, maybe about the park nearby or about gardening. Often they would respond and we'd talk. Many, many times they would ask me to join their table and I would.
I never had a bad experience.
I dine alone, all too often. Wife is often in meetings, with dinner provided.
I do not invite strangers to share my table, but I do often share my wine, even when it is wife and I dining. That is as far as it usually goes, though recently we did invite a gentleman, who was waiting for a to-go dinner at Charlie's Seafood (Harahan, LA) to join us, while he waited. That was an exception.
re: Bill Hunt
I've shared Chinese broccoli! I was at a dim sum with a few friends, sitting at a big table with strangers. My group ordered the broccoli side because we felt the vegetable component was lacking. It was a big platter, there was no way we could finish it. I offered it to the group sitting next to us and they accepted. Love it.
I travel alone and have been asked and have asked people to join me. It has been fun and I have not had one weird experience. I am not naive, I work with criminal types, but I use good judgment and have found most people are nice and fun to get to know.
Very interesting question. My answer, no from either side. I'm an introvert who acts as an extrovert in public, and I don't really enjoy self-disclosure. I love "hermit time" and I always have a book with me. If a stranger walked up to me and the Duke and invited for dinner, I'd assume there'd be multiple Roofie Coladas and a shallow grave at the end of the evening.
But the world is also blessed with the very social types, and long may they enjoy their happy interaction.
re: DuchessNukem
This made me laugh so hard: " I'd assume there'd be multiple Roofie Coladas and a shallow grave at the end of the evening."
It reminded me of a roommate I had in school who, when I said that I'd been asked to go on a blind date with a friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend, said : "This is terrible---this is either going to end in marriage or end with you as the star of a 48 Hours Mystery."
If someone approached me and proposed this, I would immediately feel uncomfortable and think they wanted something from me. Money, sex, who knows. I'd never agree to it.
If you are on a business trip and feel like some dinner companionship, there's nothing like eating at the bar of a good restaurant. At some point there's bound to be some conversation with either the person to your left or right. Also, a good bartender will engage customers in conversation and it's a great way to learn more about the city, what's happening in town, etc.
Under the circumstances you highlight, no I would not accept and would feel uncomfortable. It is just a random situation without a natural way for the invitation to occur.
I have had serendipitous conversations with strangers while traveling which have segued into shared meals and were completely delightful. But the exchange started as casual chitchat and proceeded in a mutually comfortable manner.
The person you discussed this with would have better luck trying to strike up a conversation with a colleague at the event - that provides a little more comfort for the invitee. Better yet he could do a little research and have a restaurant in mind. At the point when everyone is gathering up their briefcases he could mention to the group that he heard of a great xyz place nearby and anyone who would like to come along to try it is welcome! There are sure to be others who want company and appreciate having a plan.
re: meatn3
"I have had serendipitous conversations with strangers while traveling which have segued into shared meals and were completely delightful. But the exchange started as casual chitchat and proceeded in a mutually comfortable manner."
Exactly. I travel alone a lot, and end up traveling in circles where I meet people who have similar interests. Very often an interesting conversation has turned into a shared meal. But never would I accept from a random stranger on the street.
God no. What if the people were awful/boring/stupid? If someone approached me cold in this manner, I'd walk away and think "wow, creepy".
Yes, I'd consider asking a stranger to share a meal, but not in your situation. It would have to be if we had already struck a conversation and were getting along really well. In college, I interrailed through Europe and we did it all the time, and often shared accommodations with strangers. Maybe it was the naivety of youth. But, I run w/ a group of friends. We've struck up conversations w/ other runners (you see the same people all the time) and invited them to run with us; and join us for coffee and I've been asked the same by others when I was running alone. My friend was riding the subway on the way to the Marine Corp Marathon. He talked to a woman who was also running it and invited her up to his friend's office where they were going to hang out before the race. Total leap of faith and she took him up on it and made a lot of new friends. But, had he led w/ inviting her up, I'm hoping she would have passed. So, if someone came up to me and my husband to invite us to eat out, his treat, I'd say no and I'd never do it. But, if we were chatting and it came up that there was a place nearby we'd always wanted to go, I'd consider it. But. at that point, I guess we're no longer strangers.
And, then I'd consider sharing a table, if there were empty seats and people really wanted to eat.
re: chowser
Oh, back in my single days I did have a guy stop me on the street, tell me I looked like a nice person and he was new to town and if he could treat me to coffee. I declined and thought it was kind of creepy. I wonder, though, how different is that from chatting with strangers at a club and having them buy you drinks, as a lot of women do? Is it the setting? OTOH I've been running and had a guy run up and chat w/ me and we finished our run together. Is that creepy? It didn't seem like it at the time. I must tend to let my guard down around runners.
The closest I've come to doing this is finding myself in the entryway of a packed restaurant and asking another single diner if they'd like to share a table. I feel bad when two single diners take up two tables in an otherwise-packed restaurant. I wouldn't mind if the other person said no, but everyone has always accepted my offer. I've met some nice, and strange, people this way!
No offense but your scenerio doesn't make any sense.
If I'm new to the area why would I ask tourists the best place to eat let alone invite them to dine with me?
That's a really interesting question, because I am a frequent business traveler who has often wished that I could be bold enough to make exactly that sort of offer. I never have, though I have on occasion ended up chatting with adjacent diners and more or less merging tables.
What I HAVE done when I knew I'd be dining alone far from home is to contact a local Chowhound in advance (someone I knew from a variety of chats on the boards), and invite them out to dinner on my nickel. That's been great fun, especially when I ask them to pick the restaurant, since they're much more likely to know the good places on their home turf than I am.
honestly? i would assume the person was a swinger, trying to pick both my dh and myself up. maybe i worked in bars too long! -- but my solution to the problem lies therein as well-- if you are interested in a local restaurant's *food,* go over there and order an app at the bar, and strike up a conversation with a group of other folks also eating at the bar. if they are regulars, you may get some excellent menu recs or get to share some dishes w others, and get to try more stuff-- and it would not be "weird," in that situation, for you to pay for a few shared plates or a round or two of drinks. assuming you like the groups' tastes, you can get other great local chow-recs that way.
I would like to imagine a world/self where it might be likely for me to invite two total strangers to dinner. As many people have said, if there were some context for knowing each other, then maybe (drinks at a bar, attending same conference, etc).
I'm also fairly introverted and I wouldn't want to commit to 90-120 minutes of forced conversation with total strangers if I didn't know/believe I'd have enough that I wanted to say or hear. I used to travel a lot for work, and I found it soul-crushingly lonely. I would usually find a place where I could eat at the bar if it had TVs to give myself something to look at, or eat alone in a place with something to read. There's part of my fantasy brain that can envision the OP's scenario with a positive outcome. But for the most part, no matter how lonely it would get, I simply can't picture myself actually extending that invitation. I will say, however, that I've had a number of interesting and fun conversations while eating by myself at the bar of some pub or restaurant.
I'm not what anyone would call Shy. I like people, and I'm fairly sociable. But my batteries recharge better when I'm not "on." If I've spent a whole work day in meetings with strangers, I definitely do not want to be "on."
ETA - I stopped travelling 100% for work not long before Lost In Translation was released in theaters. My reaction to that film was "That's what it feels like to travel 100% for work, by yourself!" It's somewhat socially disorienting.
re: egit
People who've never traveled for a living think it's stupid if you say you've awakened in a hotel room (completely sober) and had to go find a phone book to remember where the hell you are. Road warriors smile knowingly and sympathize.
It's pretty unnerving (and a big neon sign that it's time to slow down for a while).
I was one of a threesome that was invited to dinner by a stranger. My roommate at Penn and I were hitchhiking back to Philly from Acapulco on winter break, and we passed through New Orleans to get a night's rest and a shower at a friend's frat house at Tulane, and joined a third Penn friend there, a native American girl, to hitch the last leg back to PA. A soft spoken, retirement age white gentleman approached the 3 of us on a sidewalk. We must have looked cold, hungry, and broke, and we were. He offered to take us to dinner. We went. I have not been a party to many "random acts of kindness" in my life, but that was one I remember. 40 years ago, next month. Thank you, kind sir.
re: Veggo
Nice story--heart warming. Things like this would happen in Europe all the time when people were interrailing. My friend met a guy at the laundromat who'd just moved to this country and had little money/ He invited the guy to come live w/ his newly wed wife. His wife was completely welcoming, which might be why they're still happily married 20 years later.
re: Veggo
Well, I remember one afternoon, with the High Sonoran Sun beating down, when you were looking for sustenance, and another "kind gentleman" took you in... [Grin]
At least the restaurant was cool, in the Summer heat, and the conversation was excellent! During that meal, many of the world's problems were solved, but unfortunately, the "powers that be," have not listened, and they danged well should have! Many world problems were actually solved that afternoon, if they had only listened. Guess that we need to have a "reset," and hope that the satellite is overhead my deck, with Port and cigars. Some could learn a lot of useful stuff.
re: TroyTempest
Reminds me of the time I was dining i alone in London, and there were two younger women at the table next to me. After a while one of them started chatting me up - not really flirtatiously, though I do think she probably had a glass or three of wine in her, and as it turned out, was also a musician so somewhat accustomed to performing to an audience - while her friend was clearly terrified that she was doing this, sure that I would end up following them home for mass rape & murder. But the talkative one and I had a good time at dinner, and that's all there was to it.
Some years back, we were dining on Maui, and I'd ordered some very nice wines. There was no way that we could drink all of them, but they DID go well with our multi-course meal. My lovely, young wife excuses herself, and I looked at all the bottles (Maui has some odd wine laws, unlike most "counties/Islands" in Hawai`i), and saw a nice young couple, one table over from us. They were doing a nice wine in half-bottle, so I called our server over, and instructed him to pour a glass for each, from the three opened bottles. We talked, and they expressed their gratitude. It happened to be the wife's birthday, and the gentleman happened to be the executive chef for a local restaurant, plus their lu`au. Next trip, we dined with him, and his fare was excellent, though we did not do his corporation's lu`au (not normally our style), and he was excellent. Those few glasses paid ME dividends, as we got his recs., and when we did dine, he more than made it up to us.
re: Bill Hunt
I don't find that outside the acceptable social parameters. You are already in a restaurant and not inviting a stranger off the street to dine with you because they seem nice.
There was an odd to me request on my local board. Someone blowing into town and wanting to do a food crawl ... they would provide the car and gas. Um no. I did check the profile and they were a long time but infrequent poster ... but still. That is a real two way street. Local getting into a strangers car ... visitor picking up locals who are strangers to them.
re: rworange
I thought so too. As for approaching a stranger on the street, well, that is not my thing. Maybe it is just me?
I also understand your trepidation about going for a drive with a stranger. Meeting up (if they are a poster to one of your local boards is one thing), would be OK with me. Otherwise - well I'm not so cool with the idea. Maybe I am just a tad paranoid, or maybe cautious?
re: Bill Hunt
Last year I took off to the wilds of Guatemala to a Chowhound's posada. I never met the guy but had followed his posts for quite a while, chatted on the phone and emailed. It was located near a Coca Cola sign, a trek up a dirt road by foot. It was truly one of the most memorable eperiences in my life. I mean ... there's strangers ... and there are strangers.
re: rworange
Great news!
Though the ChowHound team seems to think that "Chow-downs" are a bad thing, I have done two, with but one CH each, and the evenings were great. We so greatly enjoyed ourselves, that I would gladly do it again.
When it comes to dining, many on CH know their "stuff," and I greatly appreciate that.
Thanks for posting,
re: rworange
Btw. Not sure if this is the same food crawl but I did go on the one (actually I went both days) that Von moishe organized when he came to town Met some other hounds, had great food - which was the point. I exchanged several emails before I committed and it was great. Went to many new places and I am an introvert - would rather each alone than evenwithmany acquaintances. Was inspired and am organizing my own food crawl with another couple.
re: fruti
Yeah, it is. You know, even after reading about the great food people ate, I would still never do this. I wouldn't do it either if the same poster asked again. Maybe i watch too many crime shows, but all that crossed my mond was that someone established a confidence level. So it looks safe. Everybody had a good time. What is to guarantee that the nes time isn't the set up.
What bothered me about it was the organizer controlling the car. I just would not get in a car with a stranger. Meeting people I don't really know in a restaurant where i control my own transportation ... fine.
I don't know, no food no matter how fun or fabulouse seems worth the potential risk. i live in the area. I can visit these joints on my own. The whole thing made me feel uneasy. It still does.
re: rworange
I totally see your point. And I'm usually a very suspicious person but he seemed to into the food to have ulterior motives so I took a chance and had fun. And, upu're certainly right about living here and being able to do it on your own. I'm certainly not trying to convince you. Happy eating!
re: rworange
I did something like that last summer when I was in London alone on business. I wrote to a local 'Hound with whom I had had some interaction on the boards but had never before contacted personally, and offered to take her and her significant other out to dinner, in order to have some company. She was interested but her SO was not available, and instead she brought along limster, which was a great treat for me - the guy is a veritable walking encyclopedia of food! A delightful dinner was had by all.
re: BobB
Did you drive them or meet them at the restaurant?
The difference is that you had some sort of relationship with them on the board. iin the case of SF, this was a person who was not local and asking any stranger to jump in the car and drive around the Bay Area with them.
It would have been a different thing if the car had not been involved.
re: rworange
We all met up at a pub of her choosing and walked together from there to the restaurant. And you're right, I wasn't looking for a random Londoner, I specifically asked her since we'd had some pleasant discussions on the boards. I had also gleaned the fact that we work in related fields, so I knew we'd have something to talk about beside food.
Let it happen organically...go the bar, have a couple of drinks, maybe an app and if you strike up a good conversation that leads to dinner, great, but, I would think if someone came up to me and asked to join them, outside of the restaurant and they would buy..my first thought would be...swingers..freaks, serial killer..
Communal table is another animal and sometimes, I really like hanging with strangers.
It's kind of like golf..if your a twosome and they put you with another twosome and sometimes you jibe and it's and out of the park home run (played with an Indy 500 winner, Nobel Laureates, famous actor and some freaks too) and then there are times you just want to play alone or with your tribe..
I always thought it was dumb when I would eat in the hotel dining room, alone, and every night see the same businessmen sitting there eating, alone. But people just aren't that open.
I also thought it was dumb when going to a seminar being held in a hotel and seeing other classmates that evening who just want to go order room service and not join others for a meal.
re: GraydonCarter
It's possible that some people are completely fine dining alone and don't see doing so as a problem that needs fixing, let along something "dumb". It may have nothing to do with how "open" they are.
As for secnario #2, I know when I spend all day with certain colleagues the last thing I want to do is break bread with them--I want some downtime to myself. Isn't that the point of room service?
re: LeoLioness
Also, if I am at a company paid seminar, I'm probably reviewing information i learned during the day. If I must socialize it is in a work context. It isn't a vacation.
re: LeoLioness
re: GraydonCarter
It's just different personal preferences. I've been to many seminars where the topics were very technical and/or intense, leaving me mentally drained and wanting nothing more than to have a sandwich and go to bed.
Sometimes my fellow attendees are just not my type of people, and I don't care to spend 4 solid days with them both in the seminar AND in the evenings. (Other times I've had a blast hanging out with people with whom I've hit it off)
Sometimes I have actual work to do after the seminar, and it's easier to have room service while I work than to screw around going out to eat.
I hate eating in restaurants by myself (but have done so for decades) -- but it's far preferable than listening to some boor drone on and on, and I'd very much prefer to share my dinner with CNN or a book in my room than to have to fend off some lonely-heart who sees anything of the opposite gender as a possible sexual partner.
It's only dumb if you have no perspective on why people might make those choices.
re: sunshine842
That makes a lot of sense, and I can understand completely. In wife's case, the "others" are usually in the same corporation, but not 100%. There have been times, where we invited a presenter. Usually, they have agreed, as they usually hope that wife hires them for one of her retreats.
Still, and with some seminars/retreats, we will book a fine-dining reservation, even when there is some "after-meeting" buffet provided. Neither of us is a "buffet type person." Given the opportunity, we'll do fine-dining every time.
re: GraydonCarter
Ahhh, alone time. I thrive on alone time especially after a day w/ co-workers. I even need alone time when I've been w/ friends and family too long. When I traveled on business, my evening consisted of hitting the gym, grabbing a quick bite to eat in the hotel or room service--all w/out talking to anyone. Peace at last.
re: chowser
I can relate. Much of my work history has required me to be "on" in a major way. My idea of bliss has often been having a day or more where I don't have to speak and can just luxuriate in a lovely cocoon of silence.
I enjoy people, but I'm not so good with the middle ground. I can be "on" performing and I love spending time with those I am close too - it's the large middle range which I find difficult, small talk with those you barely know, cocktail party chit-chat in groups too large to have a conversation which can really go anywhere.
When I was younger I would have been uncomfortable going out for dinner alone. The last 15 yrs. or so I have gotten where I rather enjoy it!
re: meatn3
My friend calls that being a functional introvert--I'm the same way. But, after being "on" for my job, I need to be off and have my own down time. I hate small talk in a "cocktail" type setting, too. My family understands--sometimes I won't shut up, sometimes I just want to be alone.
re: GraydonCarter
"I also thought it was dumb when going to a seminar being held in a hotel and seeing other classmates that evening who just want to go order room service and not join others for a meal."
Not dumb in my opinion, but evidently you think I am dumb....
re: GraydonCarter
My wife is often in similar situations, and often asks me to "bump up" the reservations, to accommodate _____. Usually, works fine, but some do not seem obligated, and will cancel at the last moment... better offer?
Still, we dine very well, and if someone from the meeting joins us fine. If they do not, well OK.
re: GraydonCarter
sometimes i think that it's only a matter of time before everyone on earth realizes they would much rather eat alone, without their pants on. all restaurants will close or go to delivery or "room service" versions only. we must keep marijuana illegal, to prevent this.
re: soupkitten
I wonder how a restaurant would do, if it had a wall of rooms, glass overlooking a view, all for single diners. Pleasant atmosphere, no need to interact with others or deal w/ manners (picking up cornish game hen w/ fingers), your choice of music/volume, lighting, or none, kindle w/ your choice of reading material.
re: soupkitten
'it's only a matter of time before everyone on earth realizes they would much rather eat alone, without their pants on'
New restaurant marketing concept...solo dining with no pants required...love that!
re: Beach Chick
isn't this why some municipality is moving to make wearing pajama panta in public liiegal? could it ne new orleans?
re: betsydiver
Shreveport. But so far it's just one guy's proposal for an ordinance.
re: GraydonCarter
Golly, what a bunch of sourpusses. If I'm out of town and have a free evening and don't have to help the kids with their homework or clean the house or mow the lawn, there is nothing I'd rather do than have dinner with you.
re: GraydonCarter
I'd eat w/ Chowhounds because we have at least one common interest. I just don't want to make small talk with total strangers, after doing it all day.
re: GraydonCarter
but not everyone has a free evening when they're traveling.
To each their own.
re: GraydonCarter
I like that you replied to yourself, as if GraydonCarter is expressing interest in having dinner with GraydonCarter.
re: small h
Well, I would.
And so would I.
re: GraydonCarter
re: GraydonCarter
If you want a third, I'd join you.
Lol, I keep coming back to this thread. And still in the non-social camp.
But the musical accompaniment to the meal (other than "Strangers in the Night") has finally popped into my head: "Phone Booth" -- Robert Cray version (a seriously delightful song anyways):
Even when I eat at the bar alone, if I talk to guys at the bar, they seem to think that's a come-on. Even a smile and a friendly nod can turn some men into a pest. So I can't imagine actually asking a stranger for his company.
I've thought about advertising on Craigslist for a nice gay man who wants to go out with an out of town woman, to go to the theater or a good dinner. I mean, if he has nothing to do, it's always nice to get out with someone stylish and be seen/do something interesting, right?
I have yet to try this idea out, tho.
re: AsperGirl
You should read that book by Jonathon Ames, The Extra Man. They call them Walkers, but then you have to pay, which is probably worth it.
re: GraydonCarter
Ha! i'll look it up, thanks.
re: AsperGirl
I often have young ladies initiate conversations with me, when solo at bars. I assume that they have something to share, or that they are looking for info on something. I never look upon it as a "come on," of any type. [In that, I do believe that the vast majority are NOT "ladies of the evening." I think that they just want my opinion on something, like the wine, or the food. I hope that I have always come across as friendly, have given them good info, and have not been a pest.
re: Bill Hunt
There are indeed many nice solo males out there to talk to, I was overdramatizing a bit, I think. It's wonderful to come across a good chat like that.
Plus, it seems there are more professional women who will go alone to good restaurants and bars, than there used to be, even ten years ago.
re: AsperGirl
This is just from looking around, and not some scientific study, but I tend to agree with you, and am glad at what I see. A solo diner, regardless of sex/gender, should be able to enjoy themselves at most dining venues.
If you see an older guy, with a navy blazer, and a white beard, strike up a conversation with me, and I promise to only talk about the menu and the wine list.
PS - My wife is often solo, when traveling on business, and I would wish the same for her too. She has too many problems with ME hitting on her, and she does not need any additional pressures.
re: Bill Hunt
'If you see an older guy, with a navy blazer, and a white beard, strike up a conversation with me, and I promise to only talk about the menu and the wine list.'
re: Beach Chick
Yes, that is the way that it always has been - the food, the wine, and maybe a very few sports teams. I am totally harmless, though hopefully not "charm-less."
I wouldn't ask to buy a stranger dinner, but if there were enough signals that we'd have enough in common to talk about, I would strike up conversation (e.g. dining at the bar).
I attenuate the fear of being perceived as a freak of nature by understanding that to some people, a young, smaller-bodied woman who (by choice) walks fast and roams alone is already a freak of nature -- i.e. nothing I do will throw me further in -- or send me out -- of this bucket.
re: Harmy
I am in no position to pass any judgments, but were you to approach me, while dining solo, I would gladly welcome you to the table.
For me, it's all about the dinner, the wine, and conversation. Usually, my lovely young wife provides the conversation, but some times, she is not available.
In some dining experiences, I choose a "communal table," if one is available, and welcome the conversation. I would allow as how many feel the same way.
Now, it almost sounds like a line from "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," and I never wish to get into intrigue, but good food, wine and conversation are something different - very different.


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