There’s no such thing as a free lunch. Unless you don’t eat. January 17, 2008
Here’s the thing.
You eat lunch at lunchtime. Especially if you make an appointment to meet someone in a restaurant at noon. You eat lunch. You do not get there, let the other person order, then say, “Oh, I’m not hungry. I ate a big breakfast/packed my lunch/am an anti-foodite/hate you and want to make you feel uncomfortable. I’ll just have a drink.”
That is mean.
It is especially mean when it is the second time it’s happened to me THIS WEEK. What is up with the universe? I order lunch, the other person does not, and then I spend the rest of the meeting, a meeting that requires a lot of talking to be done BY ME, eating in front of them while they sip their soda or whatever. AWKWARD. If you don’t want to eat lunch, don’t make a lunch appointment. It is not brain surgery. It’s lunch. For me anyway.
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I can’t believe it’s happened TWICE this week. That’s never happened to me in my life. So sorry, and I completely agree that it’s weird to attend a lunch meeting and not eat.
next time you should just constantly make comments during lunch “omg this is so good….i’d offer you some, but you said you already ate/hate food/hate me.”
Maybe you shouldn’t make lunch meetings and tell people you can meet sometime over coffee.
Um, yeah, that would seriously tick me off.