eating alone

so i have had like twenty ideas over the last week of things to talk about in a post and I will try to remember them all. so here is the first one.

What is your take on eating alone? Like at a public place? This is something that doesn't bother me at all but I know some that would never dream of doing it. The other day I was waiting on a friend to get off work so we could go tacky outfit shopping. I was hungry and wanting some zoes. So i went and ordered me some food and sat down to eat it. This is great people watching time. As I was observing the other customers I noticed a few things. The first was that I was getting alot of looks. Im not sure if this was because I was sitting alone, or because they were taken away with my smoking hot looks(holding in a laugh) or just because I was staring at them doing my people watching:) I think it was a mixture of one and three. Two was just for my own fantasy. I found it funny that people were so concerned that I was sitting alone. I have a husband, a child and lots of friends so I am not sitting here by my self because I am all alone it is just because everyone is doing something else and I am hungry.

The second thing I noticed were the other people that were eating by them self. There was a man that looked like he was on his lunch break, and a younger lady. The interesting thing about these people was how they were acting and what they were doing while eating alone. The younger girl who was probably younger than me but not high school age was on her Phone the whole time. I think at one point she faked a conversation with someone just to look and sound like she had friends. I only got a small part of the conversation but she was basically explaining why she was sitting there eating by her self to someone on the other end. She was doing this just load enough for everyone else to here. The gentleman that was on his lunch break was the funniest. He was working on some papers but he would not even look around or at his food long enough to take a bite. He seemed to want to disappear so no one would notice him. Then he was finished and gone...I don't think he even chewed. Either he just was not comfortable being by him self or he needs to tell his boss he needs a longer lunch break.

so I want to know your thoughts...??? Can you eat alone?