So when sitting with your significant other in a booth in a restaraunt....

[ryco]

do you sit beside her or across the table from her? Vote and/or discuss.

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I notice that most couples sit side by side. I however sit across from mine so I can gaze lovingly into her eyes whils conversing.

The downside to this seating arrangement is if I say something stupid I can be kicked under the table. (and if you've read any of my posts you know I must have some sore shins.)

If we're dining with another couple, then I sit sit next to her.
If it's a regular four square table I will sit diagonally next to her.

[Flabby1]

i like to mix it up on occassion but generally sit accross from her cause i think she prefers that.

[HollowBassman]

Originally Posted by ryco

do you sit beside her or across the table from her? Vote and/or discuss.

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I notice that most couples sit side by side. I however sit across from mine so I can gaze lovingly into her eyes whils conversing.

The downside to this seating arrangement is if I say something stupid I can be kicked under the table. (and if you've read any of my posts you know I must have some sore shins.)

If we're dining with another couple, then I sit sit next to her.
If it's a regular four square table I will sit diagonally next to her.

Wow, that's a huge table!



(1 square = 100sq ft)

[IconBasser]

uhh... I don't think about it. It pretty much changes every time...

[mattq]

across from cause it's easier to hold a conversation that way. i only notice couples sitting next to each other when they're in that beginning stage of always having to be super close to each other all the time

[Asa Samuel]

Across from, if your sitting next to each other you have to turn arund to talk, if you're with other people then definately next to, seems more protective but if you're on your own then definately across, its easier to talk to them that way, and when you get up to kiss him/her over the table there might be a very loud 'awww' from the rest of the restaraunt.

[fenderhutz]

Unless we are dining with friends, across so we can look at each other while having a conversation. We aren't on the front seat of a pickup ya know.

[morf]

Across from, that includes with friends.

[mike_v_s]

That depends on the situation. For our anniversay, we ate at Commander's Palace in New Orleans. It's kind of a "wear a sports coat" type place. This was the same weekend the National Chapionship was in town and we went for the jazz brunch.

We sat side by side so that we could play "in-town, out-of-town" and guess who was a native. The Ohio State sweaters were a dead give away, but a few sneaky people showed up dressed appropriately. The outed themselves when they pulled out cameras to take pictures of the food when it was brought to the table.

Hollowbassman: nice catch, other acceptable answers would have involved the game of four square and any reference to the rules.

Mike

[Tony G]

When it is just us, we sit across from each other. If we are with another couple, or more, we sit next to each other.

[rollerberg2000]

While we were dating, we sat side by side. I noticed she commented on how you could tell which couples had been married for a while and were not in "love" any more by whether or not they sat next to each other or across from each other.

We're married now, and make a point to sit next to her when we go out.

I open the door for her as well. (Car doors count fellas!)

I draw the line at lowering the toilet seat.

[jady]

Originally Posted by Tony G

When it is just us, we sit across from each other. If we are with another couple, or more, we sit next to each other.

Yup, that is how it is done.....

[Valerus]

Originally Posted by mattq

across from cause it's easier to hold a conversation that way. i only notice couples sitting next to each other when they're in that beginning stage of always having to be super close to each other all the time

That sounds about right.

[HollowBassman]

Originally Posted by mike_v_s

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Hollowbassman: nice catch, other acceptable answers would have involved the game of four square and any reference to the rules.

Mike

Thanks.
I've never heard of this "four square" game that you mention though. I figure it must be a game for city folk. When I was growing up we had games like: Dig a hole and put a post in it!, Build a wall out of firewood!, and(my favorite) Steal the corn from the cornstalks!

Good times, good times.

[mike_v_s]

Originally Posted by HollowBassman

Thanks.
I've never heard of this "four square" game that you mention though. I figure it must be a game for city folk. When I was growing up we had games like: Dig a hole and put a post in it!, Build a wall out of firewood!, and(my favorite) Steal the corn from the cornstalks!

Good times, good times.

I'm here to educate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_square

Although your games would have sufficed in a pinch, you forgot my favorite: Set (fill in object) On Fire.

Mike

[doctorjazz]

I use the same arrangements in the same situations as the OP. Across if it's just the two of us, side by side if we're with another couple, and next to each other if at a table with four people.

[HollowBassman]

Originally Posted by mike_v_s

I'm here to educate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_square

Although your games would have sufficed in a pinch, you forgot my favorite: Set (fill in object) On Fire.

Mike

Unfortunately, I only got the chance to play that game one time. I thought it was great fun, ...but it sure was cold having to sleep outside afterward.

[Jared Lash]

Originally Posted by mike_v_s

I'm here to educate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_square

Although your games would have sufficed in a pinch, you forgot my favorite: Set (fill in object) On Fire.

Mike

That Wikipedia entry is woefully short on important details. Where are all of the oh so valuable variations? Your blackouts, tea parties, double taps (or bubblies if you will) and cherry bombs?

I've long championed Four Square as a potential Olympic sport. All you'd really need to jump it up from playground game to world class athletic competition is really big squares. Let's get it done IOC.

[guy n. cognito]

Funny, I've always thought that same-siders were either teenagers or adults that hadn't been properly trained in social settings.

There's an easy way to pick out the tourists in Commanders. If they are in Commanders, they are probably from out of town.

[azmati]

I'm single and like it!

Back in HS when I had a signifcant other she'd sneek up from behind me, and stand there. While I ate my taco salad. When offered a seat, she'd decline.

She would kind of stand there, and rub my sholder. She never ate around me. A strange one, she was.