Do you go into bars on your own?

Used to do a lot of business travel and consequently dined etc alone. Never got propositioned that I recall. Maybe I have perfected the non-verbal signals that say "I want to be alone" .
Favourite passtime (apart from eating and reading) was to try to guess purpose of other groups e.g trainee insurance salesmen, group of academics entertaining a visiting speaker.
When working for W Water, I could always spot one of "my boys" as they came through the door of a hotel.
Although once in the training centre I said to a nervous looking chap "have you come for interview" and he said "no the excel course"

I go into bars if I'm meeting someone and I'm quite happy to eat on my own in restaurants though I've never had the experiences of the above GNs

Susie, I made up for lost time after I got divorced at 39 and went to work in Monaco. I was married at 18 to a man who was born elderly even though he was only five years older than me, and didn't like me to wear fashionable clothes, contact lenses, or have fun at parties. I kept right on flirting until my late 50's, when I decided I was bored with hearing the same chat-up lines and retired to live in splendid seclusion in France.

Oh Greatnan JEALOUS!!! I would love a little flirtation before I die - I'm off to Wetherspoon's tonight after Slimming World- doesn't have the same cachet!!!

I did have some pleasant 'encounters' , of course. I sat next to one lovely man on a flight from Paris to Nice, when I was working in Monaco. He invited me to have dinner with him at The Carlton, Cannes, and then he would ring me whenever he had business in Nice and we would have dinner together.

I always rather liked that bit in Mrs Doubtfire where the son discovers that Mrs Doubtfire is really his father in disguise and Robin Williams remarks that he doesn't go into old lady bars or anything. I think old lady bars would be quite a good idea.

absent - you pulled!!

I travelled on my own quite a lot when I was younger and, probably although not necessarily more alluring both on business and for pleasure. I did go into bars, restaurants and cafés, but was quite careful about which ones I chose. I always felt more confident when I was in a country where I spoke the language reasonably fluently. These days, I'm rarely on my own but have no problem going into such places if I am solo, especially if I'm a familiar customer. It's like the advice about walking along a dark street at night – look confident and self-assured and you are less likely to be bothered.

I have to admit to feeling very slightly flattered when I was in a pub on my own not all that long ago for the purposes of writing a review. Two young men – young enough to be my sons – started chatting to me and we had a very pleasant conversation. Then both of them, but separately from each other, gave me their mobile numbers. Bless.