Just like cell phones have been banned from most restaurants, I think Jewish Geography restaurant trolls should be banned as well. You know those people that walk into restaurants with no intention of sitting down, they just want to “see” if there is anyone they know inside. They walk in and act like they are checking the place out and all the sudden they see someone they know and boom its like one of those obnoxiously loud phone conversations while standing in line at the checkout.
I wonder if this happens in the non-Jewish world, do people walk into a restaurant purely to find someone to talk to? It just irks me that while I am paying good money to enjoy the décor and food, I have to listen to Yanky relate that he knows the folks at a nearby table from some vort they both attended 3 months ago. Then of course they must find out about who else thy both know, at the expense of the rest of the diners. Of course they pay no mind to the angry glares, as is the case with loud obnoxious cell phone users- which I will not talk about because everyone has written something about this crowd at one point or another.
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yeah i know what ya mean i can understand some teens who do it on mutzie shabbos
aaaah tenth grade…the good old days its a blast! but now its just creepy
speakin of JG my second grade campers rocked some JG with me ,their hebrew morah was my drivers ed teacher….geshmakt no
This does not happen in non-Jewish places, but it happens in the Jewish ones all over the world.
There is that little kosher place in Manchster (England) where waiters would start talking to my family in the same manner. They would tell me all about the other visitors as well, including who sleeps with whom and what her parents would say if they ever find out.
My kids used to be on the floor laughing every time we visited – it was quite a cultural shock in comparison with all the uptight British places.
This is why Jewish restaurants are the best.
B”H Maybe these people are lonely. Maybe they don’t have anyone to go to restaurants with like you do. Maybe they don’t know how else to relate to others socially. Maybe the next time you hear one of these people say something familiar to you, you could chime in, and then invite one of these lonely souls to coffee.
I’ve never played JG myself. Its mostly an American thing.
REALLY? I have NEVER wittnessed this as far as I know. But I did witness a game of Jewish Geogaphy in French over shabbos and I thought of you.
Hesh, have you ever been to North Carolina?are there jews in there?
Chas V’Shalom!
You should be put into Cherem just for thinking this! As a big macher, this is my major source of heimish news.
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North Carolina rocks, Asheville is one of my fave towns.
JG is great, besides when it disturbs everyone- and that always happens. Specially when its hocker JG- then they have to make sure everyone hears their conversation.
I’m lucky because whenever someone tries to play Jewish geography or asks my last name so they can compare which families my family might know they get this defeated look on their faces because my last name is a Greek-Jewish last name and in Greece it’s known as a Jewish last name, but not in the US. And I rarely know anyone so they give up quickly.