Food court tables

[Ulysses G.]

Ignorant but smugly convinced they're correct. Thai visa in a nutshell. Bravo, chaps.

Indeed. Someone makes an inane ranting post, gets the mickey taken out of them, accuses everyone of being a bar rat and criticises the forum in general....

Yeah. I should have married a farm girl young enough to be my daughter. Then I too would know all there is to know about Thailand...

You would probably be having so much fun that you would not be whining about food courts. You could have your daughter/wife sit down at a table and hold it for you too. That is how the Thais usually do it, not with an umbrella.

Edited October 3, 2014 by Ulysses G.

[AnotherOneAmerican]

So much hate and bitterness over so trivial an event.

Get a life!

[ATF]

So much hate and bitterness over so trivial an event.

Get a life!

This is his life. Food Courts and bicycles.

[SoiBiker]

You forgot the temples.

[boldface]

Drinks and Ice on the table first. If I see an umbrella on a table, I would push it to the side and carry on.

[windbreaker]

Priceless

[YeahSiam]

 

So much hate and bitterness over so trivial an event.

Get a life!

This is his life. Food Courts and bicycles.

 

Can't be much worse than a dude with 2500 board posts in under 7 mos.

[NoshowJones]

I never got the idea to eat something in a food court....

Wow, you're so cool. Tell me, how can I become as cool as you?

One thing I hardly ever do is queue twice for the same thing, first a coupon, then your food, same on the skytrain, I always try and use the MRT first.

[Tim207]

This is very obvious from your OP, you couldn't find a table in a food court could you

seeing as you cant master this basic skill what chance would you have with a real life GF anyway ?

Can't get a table in a food court OR a GF........poor chap.....

Don't worry. I found a table in the end. I don't think the wife would let me have a girlfriend.

Wow you found a whole table in the end? I assumed it was just a large stick.

[MrJohnson]

I'm the sort of person that observes the way the locals do things, then does the same.

Clearly not a common trait round these parts.

Yes, you sound like a real Culture Commando. Please continue to enlighten us with your insights. They are most illuminating.

[SoiBiker]

I don't think bagging a table in a food court really constitutes culture as such.

Mind you, this is the forum where recently someone described visiting an Irish pub as part of their culture, so who knows?

[WhamBam]

If you had a GF she could get the food for you while you sit and wait.

That's the way I usually do it.

I get the water and cutlery and grab a table while she gets the food. Simple really.

[mozzer3953]

Someone's been to their first food court haven't they.

[SoiBiker]

Someone's been to their first food court haven't they.

Me? I've been eating there regularly for over a year now.

That's how I know how it works.

Oddly enough, in all that time, it's only ever middle-aged farangs that seem to get it wrong. Go figure...

[mozzer3953]

Maybe you're just far superior to them. I wouldn't let it bother you. Unless you have other issues....

[AYJAYDEE]

Someone's been to their first food court haven't they.

Me? I've been eating there regularly for over a year now.

That's how I know how it works.

Oddly enough, in all that time, it's only ever middle-aged farangs that seem to get it wrong. Go figure...

never seen the umbrella thing but if I ever do I'm gonna assume its yours and make myself comfortable while the wife goes to get the food.

[SoiBiker]

Do your wives cut it up and feed it to you too, or can you manage that for yourselves?

[farang000999]

So if you guys see a fresh drink reserving a seat in a food court you just push it out of the way and sit or do you invite yourself to the drink as well?

[AYJAYDEE]

Do your wives cut it up and feed it to you too, or can you manage that for yourselves?

nope, she has to find her own table. i store my new umbrella on the other seat!

[ATF]

Do your wives cut it up and feed it to you too, or can you manage that for yourselves?

Haven't you ever been to a No Hands Restaurant?

[lanng khao]

I'm not one of those guys that came here to sit around like a lemon while a local girl did everything for me.

This is very obvious from your OP, you couldn't find a table in a food court could you

seeing as you cant master this basic skill what chance would you have with a real life GF anyway ?

Should I hire one of those pretend ones instead?

If you wish, you may want to consider those inflatable ones, when finished eating you can deflate her and put her in your bicycle tool kit..

had a inflatable one once, when I unopened it it had a cock! Took it right back to the shop, when he got it back out the box and looked at it he said its inside out ya silly old Kunt...

[RottingCorpse]

This is coming from the guy who can't understand why a man might want to hold his wife's hand while out and about. He has no wife....

[SoiBiker]

I don't know who that woman who's always in my apartment is then.

[RottingCorpse]

Me either....but given the amount of farm girls and bars I've been to I may well know her....

[SoiBiker]

I very much doubt that.

[lanng khao]

Rottingcorpse, you've only just joined the forum and your causin murder already,, good lad, you'll go far...

[AverageBoy]

Rottingcorpse, you've only just joined the forum and your causin murder already,, good lad, you'll go far...

Methinks RottingCorpse is a Heavy Drinker.

[Gecko123]

SoiBiker:

I don't think that there is a universal standard etiquette governing "holding tables."

In some places and countries, holding tables is considered to be inconsiderate and frowned upon because people who have already ordered their food can't find a place to eat because the otherwise unused table has been "reserved" by someone who is still ordering their food.

I doubt this problem is ever going to completely go away. You might want to consider eating at the food court at less busy times or eating at sit down restaurants where seating is a certainty.

Personally, I almost never eat at food courts. I find them to be noisy and unrelaxing, and I'm always leary about the food handling and sanitation in those cramped little out-of-sight kitchens.

[Soutpeel]

 

So much hate and bitterness over so trivial an event.

Get a life!

This is his life. Food Courts and bicycles.

 

Can't be much worse than a dude with 2500 board posts in under 7 mos.

Ah that old gambit, nothing even marginally intelligent or witty to add, so attack someones post count... ....why are you stalking the poster ?.....fancy him do you, trawling for personal info ?

[Toknarok]

I wonder what the OP's reaction woulld be if he went to a hotel swimming pool and found that every single sun lounger had been reserved by a German or Russian placing a towell on it whilst they (the German or Russian) went away to go on a tour, shopping, or have a meal in the dining room.