"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 8/18/2014 4:56 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>> Gary wrote:
>>> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>>
>>>> What do you do when traveling hundreds of miles from home? You never
>>>> stop for lunch?
>>>
>>> As I said...I'll eat in the car or take it to the motel room. I've
>>> actually just never cared to eat in restaurants at all whether alone
>>> or with someone. It's just me.
>>
>> I really don't care to eat in a restaurant alone, feels like I'm in a
>> fish bowl.
>
> It's only a fish bowl if you think people are watching you. Chances are,
> they're not.
>
>> I didn't like eating alone in my car and even worse is
>> eating alone in a hotel room.
>
> Eating in a car is so sophomoric. It's apparent people who eat in cars
> are buying fast food from a drive-thru window. They aren't out looking
> for good food.

That's not true at all! Angela and I often bring meals from home for her
dance recitals or when we go to dance shows out of town. There isn't always
a place to eat inside so we sometimes eat in the car. We have also gotten
food at a grocery store and eaten it in the car on road trips when the
weather outside was inclement or the rest area was teeming with bugs or
something.
>
>> When I found myself alone away from
>> home I'd find a tavern and eat at the bar. I didn't like watching TV
>> alone in a hotel room, I much prefered watching TV at a bar and only
>> leave when I was ready to sleep.
>>
> Eating in a hotel room is fine if you get room service in an excellent
> hotel with a good dining room. I don't think that's what Gary is talking
> about.

I have gotten room service a few times but more likely, I will either bring
food with me in a cooler or in cans such as kidney and green beans or I will
go to a nearby grocery store and get stuff. When I lived in a motel for
weeks on end, I lived off of assorted raw veggies, some fruit, hummus,
canned beans, cheese, boiled eggs (purchased that way), nuts, etc. I did
send out for a pizza once and also got a very large Greek salad which was
enough for two meals. I had a little fridge in there. I may have had a
microwave. Not sure about that. I may have made microwave popcorn which I
normally wouldn't eat but... When you're stuck in a motel, you have to make
do. I don't even want to think about how much it would have cost me had I
dined out for every meal. Instead, I bought one small sharp knife, paper
plates and bowls, plastic flatware and dish soap. I think I did buy a
larger plastic bowl so I could make big salads.