When it comes to Public Displays of Affection, when is it too much? As a server, I don’t exactly enjoy watching couples at my tables making-out in front of me and the families at nearby tables. Hey, it makes me uncomfortable. I once worked at a restaurant that had little enclosed booths where people could have their dinners in somewhat privacy. I have walked in to many situations where people had stood on their chair and unscrewed the light bulb above their table, for even more privacy. I always felt like I was interrupting their private time. Almost like I was walking in on them in their bedroom, weird! I believe that unscrewing the light bulbs is a bit extreme.
When reading a article by the New York Magazine titled “Public Displays of Affection: Sex in the park, on the street, in a cab, at the bar; exhibitio
nism isn’t just a fantasy in New York.” I came to conclusion that people are becoming a bit more bolder. The article states “According to the book, having sex in a public place is a common fantasy. An Elle–MSNBC.com survey conducted last year found that 22 percent of Americans had done “it” in public in the preceding year. But almost everyone we spoke with in New York had a tale of public or semi-public lewdness. Which leads us to conclude—admittedly unscientifically—that the rest of the country is bringing us down in the polls”. At the restaurant I currently work I find myself serving couples that slip into the bathroom together before their entrees arrive and I have to ask them to please return to their tables. This makes me very uncomfortable. Don’t get me wrong: I love serving tables where the couple is clearly happy just being with one another, or the old couple that just enjoys one another after 50 long years. When does it cross that thin line of adorable to raunchy?
I think that kissing in a restaurant is fine to a point, just try and not to over do it! Making out in public is fine, it is your right, but you should ask yourself “When does it make the others around us uncomfortable?”
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