Table or Booth?

[Iron_chet]

Tables all the way. I need to be leaner but it seems in most booths I have to sit really upright because I am tall.

I like being able to kick back a bit and reposition the chair.

 

[spikechiquet]

The dude in the background always bugged me. STOP LOOKING AT THE CAMERA!
They should have had someone sitting with him to fake a conversation.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

I'm right handed, but I eat with my left hand, so I feel your pain because I'm always bumping up next to the righties. I need to go out to eat with left-handed friends more often.

That's me, too. I just sit on the side that keeps my left hand away from whoever's next to me. In a booth this often means bumping up against a wall, but after a certain amount of time you get used to these things.

I go with a booth for a number of reasons. The wobbly chair thing (of course, if the booth table is wobbly, that's a major problem) and in a booth you don't have other people - wait staff, customers - walking by and bumping into you. In my estimation it reduces the chance you'll have a drink spilled on you.

 

[qtlaw]

Booth
So much better for client discussions; also when I was single it was more intimate.

 

[Vombatus]

Two people dining, with no one else present, and sitting on the same side of a booth is creepy.

But it allows you to discreetly feel each other's inner thighs.

 

[Buck]

But it allows you to discreetly feel each other's inner thighs.

... In a restaurant ...

Which is creepy.

 

[Songbird]

Booth
So much better for client discussions; also when I was single it was more intimate.

Client ... discussions ... lol

(This is at Ben's on 38th)

 

[Fly]

Or a handjob

One of the biggest surprises in SJ history - @Vombatus did not LIKE this post!

 

[Buck]

Frank Costanza didn't take the subway all the way to New York to sit at a table:

 

[swingline]

Booth if she's sitting across from you wearing a short skirt with nothing underneath it just to tease you. Otherwise, table.

 

[spikechiquet]

Booth if she's sitting across from you wearing a short skirt with nothing underneath it just to tease you. Otherwise, table.

That sounds like a great story! LOL

 

[Deskgrunt50]

I find all this booth love puzzling. Booths are too unpredictable. Some are ok, but many are terrible. Can't adjust your distance from or level to the table.

Table gives you freedom. Freedom to move and adjust! Freedom to get up without a hassle! Tables are freedom! 'Murica!

Of course, we always get a wobbly table. So **** it. I don't know.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

That sounds like a great story! LOL

Dear Penthouse Forum ...

 

[Vombatus]

Dear Penthouse Forum ...

It's also a good situation for the under the table cellphone camera snapshot, although you probably need the flash on.

 

[Buck]

If you're sitting in a booth, how can you see what's going on under the table and across from you?

 

[Riptide]

If you're sitting in a booth, how can you see what's going on under the table and across from you?

That's why you drop your fork.

 

[expendable]

That's why you drop your fork.

Just don't eat with said fork after you pick it up.

 

[Buck]

This conversation is creeping me out and making me uncomfortable.

 

[Joe Williams]

Booth with wife, table with buddies. We all are tall enough that we're banging knees or kicking each other's feet in a booth, especially the ones that have the fat metal support bracket taking up too much space underneath. I want to be able to straighten my legs once in a while, and table allows for all sorts of angles and pushbacks. Also, I like to be able to face the restaurant's door and booths often don't offer that view.

 

[playthrough]

Booth with wife, table with buddies. We all are tall enough that we're banging knees or kicking each other's feet in a booth, especially the ones that have the fat metal support bracket taking up too much space underneath. I want to be able to straighten my legs once in a while, and table allows for all sorts of angles and pushbacks. Also, I like to be able to face the restaurant's door and booths often don't offer that view.

Outing alert: Joe Williams is in the mafia.