Eating alone

Eating alone is something I feared a few weeks ago, now its something I cherish. I have been learning how to enjoy being by myself and it has made me appreciate others and friends even more. My summer adjustments of driving for hours a day and learning about agriculture are coming along quite smoothly and I have come to love the open road, especially with books on tape. My challenge for myself this week is to sit alone at a restaurant with a pen and paper ( my journal) and write about the restaurant. How it looks, how the service is, how the menu looks, how expensive it is, etc, and in the meantime try to strike up a conversation with the server. How he feels about the place, the management, the food, the area, the lighting, whatever. I don't know why I want to do this but I do. I had a nice conversation at "the Coffee Pot" owner in Bloomfield NY. She told me about how the place had burned last year and it gave her an opportunity to change the place around. It was a quirky, but colorful diner with license plates of all 50 states... I digress. If your all alone, looking to eat, look to learn too! peace