Kids and Small Hotels and Breakfast Time Nightmares

Person_one

PasturesNew wrote: »

The parents and the children were complete strangers to me that day. I'd never met any of them before.

lostinrates's children?

But you were talking to the parents, so you had a connection, they weren't just bodies and voices floating about unconnected to you.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

You mean at breakfast? I am there to eat breakfast. In, eat, out. No room for a paper anyway. It's a room about 12'x13' with 7-8 small/square tables laid up with cutlery. Tables are only 2' square and contain all manner of clutter (cutlery, placemats, jams, butter dish, cups/saucers, pot of sauce sachets, etc etc).

I walk in, say "usual", he scuttles off to make it, I shove bread in the toaster, pour a glass of juice, pour a cup of coffee. Get toast out of toaster, butter it .... as I am eating the 2nd piece the breakfast comes. 2-3 mins tops to eat breakfast. Then I leave.

Actually, ithink the reading is worth a go. Not books, i know thats a nono,but the paper or even short stories.

PasturesNew

I wasn't going to mention it ..... but I met the dad outside (smoko time) this morning.... and he came straight out and said to me "Last day - thank goodness. I need a holiday to get over it. They made me go to ....... seen one monkey, seen them all..." He sounded right p155ed off with his whole family.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Actually, ithink the reading is worth a go. Not books, i know thats a nono,but the paper or even short stories.

I'm not sure I see how. There's no time to read books at breakfast. You're in, sit, eat, leave. Why hang around in a breakfast room ... staring at an empty plate ... just to read a book?

I am not sitting there with nothing to do.... there's food to be eaten. If the breakfast doesn't come pretty immediately I'll toast a 3rd slice, it's always arrived before I've finished eating that. It's only one bloke, you give your order and he goes and cooks it and brings it straight out to you.

Savvy_Sue

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm not sure I see how. There's no time to read books at breakfast. You're in, sit, eat, leave. Why hang around in a breakfast room ... staring at an empty plate ... just to read a book?

I nearly missed my GP appt yesterday morning because I a) made the mistake of HAVING breakfast and b) started browsing MSE while I ate my cereal ... :rotfl:

I'm usually a 'breakfast bar in the car' kind of person, but DH is away, so I'm trying to get myself into better habits. Clearly reading MSE isn't better ...

lostinrates

Person_one wrote: »

lostinrates's children?

But you were talking to the parents, so you had a connection, they weren't just bodies and voices floating about unconnected to you.

Lostinrates is childless and failed to kidnap any of the cuties that pn and i met that day.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm not sure I see how. There's no time to read books at breakfast. You're in, sit, eat, leave. Why hang around in a breakfast room ... staring at an empty plate ... just to read a book?

I am not sitting there with nothing to do.... there's food to be eaten. If the breakfast doesn't come pretty immediately I'll toast a 3rd slice, it's always arrived before I've finished eating that. It's only one bloke, you give your order and he goes and cooks it and brings it straight out to you.

Ok, so here is how i eat a leisurely solo hotel breakfast with a book.

I wander down a little late, and choose my table, dump my stuff on it (sunglasses and a silk scarf, book and handbag) then i get my drink, if there is self service drink arrangement, usually putting half orange juice and half grapefruit juice in a glass (i love juice but do not have it often because of the sugar issues) then wander back to my table, find page in book, and read while i sip. Then order coffee if its a waiter. And tell them i will think about what i might want cooked for me while i enjoy coffee number one. I do this over a few pages of book. Then i order food as i wake up a bit and become comfortable with my environment (hotels are such odd places to breakfast). If its self service i choose what i want (and spend a long time choosing fruit especially). Wander back, set up with a fork andproceed to stab food with gork while reading. Nb this would not work for bavon, which is impossible to cut politely or discretely with the side of a fork.

If dh is with me the book hides my embarrassment in him going back to any buffet at least three times. I have at least two coffees and sonetimes three. And it can tak fifty mins or so. Thats about four chapters of book often enough, but sometimes less than one.

Lotus-eater

I read a paper at hotels when I am by myself, a book doesn't stay open on it's own like a paper, a very useful thing to do at breakfast.

Lotus-eater

PasturesNew wrote: »

I wasn't going to mention it ..... but I met the dad outside (smoko time) this morning.... and he came straight out and said to me "Last day - thank goodness. I need a holiday to get over it. They made me go to ....... seen one monkey, seen them all..." He sounded right p155ed off with his whole family.

He sounds a bit of a kn0b tbh. Not a family man we presume.

lostinrates

Lotus-eater wrote: »

He sounds a bit of a kn0b tbh. Not a family man we presume.

Obviously, but means pn's complaints were possibly justified if even their father feels like that.