{"id":276,"date":"2006-01-02T08:46:38","date_gmt":"2006-01-02T16:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songoose.com\/?p=98"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:37:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:37:59","slug":"the-random-restaurant-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"The Random Restaurant Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is there proper etiquette for when you run into someone you know at a restaurant? Are you expected to get up and go over to their table, or does a wave and a smile suffice? If you do stop at the table, how long should you stand there? On one hand, you don&#8217;t want to cut the conversation short, but on the other hand, standing by one table is standing by several others in most restaurants. I wouldn&#8217;t want some bozo standing next to my table talking to their friends. If there is an extra table nearby, should you sit down at that table and have a longer conversation? Ask the waiter if you can move? <\/p>\n<p>This has happened to me quite often recently. Just the other day I ran into my buddy Leebo (who was on a date with a girl I didn&#8217;t know, complicating the situation even further). I decided to send him a text message saying &#8220;I see u&#8221;. He got freaked out and looked around the reastaurant. After noticing us, he came over to say hi. I was left thinking, should I have gone over to his table? Was that rude of me? Did we chat long enough?<\/p>\n<p>Just when you thought it was safe to go out to eat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there proper etiquette for when you run into someone you know at a restaurant? Are you expected to get up and go over to their table, or does a wave and a smile suffice? If you do stop at the table, how long should you stand there? On one hand, you don&#8217;t want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}