Is There Any House With Enachment Tables

Is there a less embarrassing way of asking for "A table for one, please" in a restaurant?

I feel you, it was hard for me too.I can get super awkward in public places and asking a table for one person can be daunting especially if the place is busy or posh or both!You do get judged at some places.The trick I have discovered is to be ‘cool’ about it. Since I have now become quite familiar with the possible reactions for such a request, I have learnt a specific approach. This is how it goes.Step 1: “Helloooo”. Smile, possibly in a non-creepy, non-threatening, natural way.Step 2: Don’t wait for them to ask the dreaded question.Step 3: “Table for 1 please.”Usual responses:No reaction.“Oh. Ummm. Let me see, table for oneeeeee……..” - Expression“Sure, this way please.”Step 4: Walk as if you are a special person being escorted at a special request and being offered a special table.Step 4: After being seated, “Thank you so much!” and smile. Yes, yes that natural one we previously discussed.Step 5: Order whatever the heck you want, be polite to the waiter and enjoy your meal in peace.See? Simple!Most times the service is more courteous than usual.I eat out alone as often as I can. I try a new place or a new cuisine and order their top rated/most recommended dish on the menu. And when the meal arrives, I am on a date WITH that beautiful meal. No phone, no distractions. It would seem like I am eating a meal after being hungry for days. I don’t care what people think. I focus on being one with my food, relishing every bite. When your date is so delicious, it deserves all your attention.Next time, leave embarrassment, go on that date with your meal.“Table for 1 (pretty) please.” Smile. Don’t wink. Just flash your disarming smile.Then you would be like, “Embarrassing?! This? Bae please. I am the boss!”.

Are table runners just for dining tables?

Honestly, table runners can be used on/for anything you want. The same goes for almost all decorative fabrics (table cloths, lose fabrics, etc.). You are only limited by your imagination.For example, while I was working at IKEA, I visited one of my interior design colleagues for her house warming party. She had hung up some table runners on her wall that draped down to the bottom of the wall (almost touching the floor). So instead of hanging up paintings/pictures like everyone else, she had used IKEA table runners as wall decoratons. It looked fantastic, almost like banners hung against the wall. It gave the living room a very cosy feel.Just know that table runners are only called table runners because that is what they are made for. This doesn't mean you can’t use it for something else. The same principle goes for all decorative pieces, and using something for a completely irrelevant purpose is also known as innovation (as long as it works of course). So again, you are only limited by your imagination.

Comebacks (replies): How do you handle the brother-in-law, or husband of a friend, who always finds a flaw or potential enhancement in any home improvement effort you've made, rather than simply praising or accepting what you've done?

My sis-in-law did that too me and it did bother me and I didn't know how to deal with it. Whenever she came to my house (which was usually in pretty clean but messy state due to kids) she would put things where they were supposed to be or would take a wipe and clean the dinner table etc. (I had actually find a week old rotting rice in her rice cooker and years old packets in her freezer all the time but never mention and let her take care of her household.) It was actually my husband one time who said something so cleverly that she stopped doing it. (So she did it so many times that even my husband noticed it.) As usual, when she picked up a wipe and started wiping the dinner table, my husband said this with self deprecating humor  "Hey, xyz, can you please also clean the TV also while you are at it? And may be coffee table too? We don't seem to get around it." As I said, she never did that again :-)