According to Google searches, solo dining and travel is on the up - would you ever consider going it alone whether it be dining, travelling or something else or would you feel self conscious solo?
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00:00I have thought of it and then I think, oh no, I'm really thinking of it.
00:07My daughter keeps saying to me, go on a holiday.
00:10I think I'd rather be somebody else.
00:13Tell me why?
00:15I'd be a bit afraid on my own.
00:18She and us are hanging around, isn't it?
00:21No, we wouldn't.
00:23I don't think I could go by myself.
00:25But we do see a lot of people now.
00:28Do you ever go for dinner or lunch or anything by yourself?
00:31Are you more than happy to sit and have a meal by yourself?
00:33Yeah, I'd go by myself, I don't mind.
00:36I feel uncomfortable just sitting there on my own,
00:38thinking everybody's going to be looking at me,
00:40or look at her, poor thing, sitting on her own.
00:42And she's got nobody to sit with.
00:44I'd eat alone, yeah.
00:46If you're hungry you go and eat at least anyway.
00:48I feel uncomfortable because,
00:50the reason I feel uncomfortable,
00:52I feel uncomfortable for them.
00:54Because they're sitting on their own.
00:56Sometimes you feel like sitting on your own,
00:58pull a chair up and sit in it with those.