I never used to go to restaurants alone. Then I got tired of my own cooking and decided I deserved to be waited on. Now I don't mind going to any kind of an eating establishment alone. I've even gone to real classy places. If people are looking at me funny, I just look back with a Mona Lisa smile. They either smile back or get flustered.

I sometimes think about all the things I missed when I was younger just because I was so self conscious or insecure.