The most Awkard moment during dinner

[chrisxmoa]

Ironic!! We had a tablemate who exclaimed and was proud that he was a communist!!!

 

lol oh wow ... and to think that i was just joking

[chrisxmoa]

These posts have been GREAT! --- Ah, now for my most awkward dining experience…. Well, also one of my funniest – still makes me laugh.

 

We were on the Royal having a last-night special dinner in the Sterling Steakhouse. The lady next to me had just placed her fork into her baked potato when the gentleman seated at the table across from us decided to stand-up. Oddly enough, when he stood, his pants remained stuck to the chair (I have no idea how this was accomplished – but then, he was wearing semi-baggy shorts to the Sterling, which we thought was odd to start with) and he ended up providing us with a rather ample ‘full-moon’ of his behind (no – there was no under-garment noted…..). My jaw dropped, but the lady next to me quickly pulled her hands back to cover her mouth, and in the process of doing so, hurled her baked potato a good 25 feet across the dining room (almost hitting a waiter on the broadside). I’d love to tell you that the ‘gentleman mooner’ was embarrassed, but – well,,, I can’t. He just hiked up his pants like nothing happened and walked on out of the dining room. My DH was on the side of the table with her back to the ‘event’ – and never saw a thing, but the staff upheld our story (having seen it too). The lady next to me ended up with a new potato and both of us ended up with a dining experience we hope will never be exceeded.

 

HHAHHAHAHAHH !!! that is priceless !!!! :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

[diddlydi]

these posts have been great! --- ah, now for my most awkward dining experience…. Well, also one of my funniest – still makes me laugh.

 

We were on the royal having a last-night special dinner in the sterling steakhouse. The lady next to me had just placed her fork into her baked potato when the gentleman seated at the table across from us decided to stand-up. Oddly enough, when he stood, his pants remained stuck to the chair (i have no idea how this was accomplished – but then, he was wearing semi-baggy shorts to the sterling, which we thought was odd to start with) and he ended up providing us with a rather ample ‘full-moon’ of his behind (no – there was no under-garment noted…..). My jaw dropped, but the lady next to me quickly pulled her hands back to cover her mouth, and in the process of doing so, hurled her baked potato a good 25 feet across the dining room (almost hitting a waiter on the broadside). I’d love to tell you that the ‘gentleman mooner’ was embarrassed, but – well,,, i can’t. He just hiked up his pants like nothing happened and walked on out of the dining room. My dh was on the side of the table with her back to the ‘event’ – and never saw a thing, but the staff upheld our story (having seen it too). The lady next to me ended up with a new potato and both of us ended up with a dining experience we hope will never be exceeded.

 

way toooo funny. LOL

[grandmato4]

We were on the Royal having a last-night special dinner in the Sterling Steakhouse. The lady next to me had just placed her fork into her baked potato when the gentleman seated at the table across from us decided to stand-up. Oddly enough, when he stood, his pants remained stuck to the chair (I have no idea how this was accomplished – but then, he was wearing semi-baggy shorts to the Sterling, which we thought was odd to start with) and he ended up providing us with a rather ample ‘full-moon’ of his behind (no – there was no under-garment noted…..). My jaw dropped, but the lady next to me quickly pulled her hands back to cover her mouth, and in the process of doing so, hurled her baked potato a good 25 feet across the dining room (almost hitting a waiter on the broadside). I’d love to tell you that the ‘gentleman mooner’ was embarrassed, but – well,,, I can’t. He just hiked up his pants like nothing happened and walked on out of the dining room. My DH was on the side of the table with her back to the ‘event’ – and never saw a thing, but the staff upheld our story (having seen it too). The lady next to me ended up with a new potato and both of us ended up with a dining experience we hope will never be exceeded.

 

There's been some great stories on this thread but NONE compare to this one:eek::eek: Can't wait for DH to get home so I can read it to him!!:D:D

[vandalayceo]

My wife and I always choose AD, and always insist on a table for 2 only. We always find the romance factor goes up significantly on a cruise, and in spite of being with each other all day, we love the intimacy of an elegant sit down dinner with each other every evening, with wine and our special dinner conversation.It must show because we are constantly being asked by wait staff if we are on our honeymoon-we have been married 34 years. Because of this ritual we are more than happy to wait, if that is what it takes, to get a table for 2, preferably in the more secluded areas. By about the 3rd day the HW knows us and our preference and doesn't even bother showing us to a table unless it meets our need.

Unfortunately several times early on a trip I may have been misunderstood as to our preference for a table for 2, and found ourselves being escorted up to a table with 4 or 6 already seated parties. As soon as I have realized the mistake I have immediately (quietly) told the person escorting us that we want a table for 2, and have turned to return to the entrance.

The awkwardness arises from seeing the face of the seated diners as you are approaching their table, obviously to be seated with them, and suddenly turning to leave. Welcoming smiles suddenly become expressions of mild shock, with the person probably thinking that the sight of them and their companions is somehow the reason that we are rejecting the table assignment. Awkward, but somehow stopping to give an explanation doesn't feel right either.

Luckily it has only happened a few times, and I apologize to anyone this may have affected-it's not you, it's us.

[mpace58]

Ah, the old - "It's not you, it's me" line. ;)

:D

[spongerob]

We were seated with a couple of nice ladies who were traveling together. One of the ladies started telling me a long and involved humorous story that got her a little bit excited and she was gesturing with enthusiasm. At one point there was a bit of wardrobe malfunction and one of the 'girls' made an appearance. Ordinarily this would keep my attention well focused but the lady was about 70 years old and I was on my best behavior besides. I looked away and tried to get my wife's attention to...clue the lady in, but she was occupied with the lady's friend.

 

Every time I looked away the lady would grab my arm and say, "You have to pay attention, this is the best part!" and of course there the girl was, bouncing and perky. The story finally ended, and the situation sort of corrected itself (it was an odd outfit) and dinner continued, with the lady blissfully unaware of the show.

[beachgirl50]

DH and I had lunch in the MDR for the first time and got along fairly well with an older couple sitting with us. They both were very friendly and very talkative, and we enjoyed conversing with them.

 

I began to notice that food, particularly dry food, would every so often spit out of his mouth while he talked with his mouth full. That wasn't so bad as his wife sat between us, but I did make sure to keep an eye on the landing sites. Then halfway through the meal, the man began to accumulate quite the pile of crumbs down the front of shirt. Again, no biggie... it happens to all of us. But then his wife, chatting away and without missing a beat, proceeded to pick the crumbs on her husband's shirt and started to snack on them. I didn't dare look over at DH at the time because I knew we would both start laughing if we did.

 

These posts have made my day; I'm reading them aloud to my hubby and we are rolling on the floor laughing. Someone should write a book . . .

[UandMe4Ever]

These are some of the reasons, and more, than my DH and I decided, even though we were fortunate on many cruises, to either do Traditional late at a table for 2 only, or MTD at a table for 2 only! We like each other's company! No matter what ship, the last few cruises have been just the 2 of us for dining, regardless of the mealtime!

 

We changed after we got stuck with a very bigoted person, certainly no gentleman. I think his DW was quite embarrassed as some of the things he said. He left no one out. I finally asked him if he hates the whole world other than himself or "his people", why cruise with others from all over? I also asked him to refrain from badmouthing everyone or everyone else is leaving for another table and he can complain to his wife.... We tried the next night for dinner and he said nothing to anyone..Fine by all of us for the rest of the cruise. His DW spoke nicely and we'd respond to her in kind.

 

I am a very tolerant person~ To each their own and respect others beliefs, traditions, etc. I find it difficult to stand by and say nothing!

 

After that cruise, we decided enough was enough of large tables. We've never looked back and look forward to our meals alone.. We make lots of friends on board, sometimes even meet for drinks, shows, etc. Works out very well.

 

Safe sails everyone and keep cruising!

[sackman]

I have three examples. None are terribly funny, but each awkward in it's own way:

 

One: My wife and I were in our early 30's, and I was working part time at a travel agency. We took a Panama Canal cruise at a tiime when it was very uncommon for people who aren't retired to take a cruise that lasts longer than 7 days. At lunch one day, we are seated with somebody who turns out to be from our same town (Boulder). He makes note of our age and says "So, did you win this cruise or something?" No, jerk. I paid for it, just not as much as you did. :rolleyes:

 

Two: We are seated at a table for 6, but only have one other couple with us. These are great folks and we hit it off immediately. The husband mentions that he likes to dine with larger groups, as it's more interesting. We agree, but don't think much of it. We get a note in our stateroom the next day instructing us of our new table assignment. We don't understand what's going on, so we go to the old table and have two couples that we've never seen before. We realize what happened, and go to the new table the following night. One of the couples from the first table gets into the elevator with us after dinner. We hear the husband say to the wife :"Those are the folks that ate with us last night". :o

 

Three: Politics. This actually happened at an adjoining table to ours, but we could hear just about the entire thing: Somebody at the table must have been Jewish, and the conversation must have evolved into something to do with the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. Before you know it, one woman is screaming at the top of her lungs at another woman, who begins screaming back. The first woman picks up a full glass of water and hurls it at the second woman and gets up and leaves the table... leaving her husband behind. :eek: The really weird thing is that after a couple days, they were all back at the table like nothing had ever happened.

[cruisin36]

lol oh wow ... and to think that i was just joking

 

They were a strange couple. We sat with them at the wine tasting. This was their first princess cruise, they had elite cards. Said vthey were TA's. I asked for a card. They said they only book for relatives. Sounds like they found a way to become elite by taking the Princess TA course and perhaps to get other bennies.

[BandK10]

I was on a HAL cruise with my mother, who, at dinner, insisted on telling our just-met tablemates about her digestive problems - which, as I recall, included constipation. NO, I DON'T KNOW THIS WOMAN!

 

(And no, she doesn't read CC, so I'm safe.)

 

Oh dear, shepp...we must be related! Sounds like my MIL! LOL!

[matondo]

I certainly can't top any of these stories which are great but our most awkward moment was dining with a gentleman who was a bigot. It took everything we had in us not to burst out laughing at some of his outrageous comments.

[BandK10]

Great stories everyone! Finally had to shut my office door...was afraid my hysterical laughing would disrupt my coworkers!

 

The hurling potato...omg...too funny!!!!! Reminds me of the scene from Pretty Woman where Julia Roberts exclaims about her oyster "slippery little suckers!"

[IDRATHERBCRUISN]

This was a very awkward moment last week on the Emerald, not at dinner but at breakfast in the Horizon. It was Friday morning, Cozumel, very busy so people were sitting at tables with strangers. My DH and I are sitting at a table for 6 and the attendant asks if we mind if others join us. Well no problem, along comes a couple with their plates heaped with food and 4 cups of yogart each. The man proceeds to eat while the woman starts making sandwiches. No big deal so she is having a cheese sandwich for breakfast, European, thats what they eat. WOW she is hungry, she makes six sandwiches, has 3 danishes and 4 cups of yogart. She asks the attendant for extra napkins and proceeds to wrap her freshly made cheese sandwiches in the napkins and puts them in her back pack along with 2 danishes and the 8 cups of yogart. She eats one danish and then takes food off her husbands plate, wraps that up and shoves it to in her back pack.

 

My DH and I are in a bit of shock, the couple did not so much acknowledge us. She grabs my bottle of water (she must have forgot she didnt bring her own water to the table as she didnt have enough hands to carry it because she had 2 plates of food for her picnic lunch on the beach) and leaves the table with her husband close behind.

 

So very strange.:o

[jagsfan]

I was cruising with a blonde co-worker when a man at our table for 8 looked at her, looked

at her Rolex and said "I'll bet your husband's first wife would have loved to have had a

Rolex". Then his wife said "I just despise these gold digging women." Pat turned red as a

beet and just sat there. I told them she was awarded the watch as a reward for outstanding work at her job. The guy actually said "I'll bet". That's when I got up,

pulled her up by the arm and went straight to the maitre d' and explained why we wanted

to change tables. I was almost as upset as Pat was....we both lost our appetites, but

the next night we had lovely tablemates.

That's the only time I've run into horribly rude people, but on an Alaska cruise one of the

men who happened to look a little scary, leaned on the table and said "I don't mess with

the Mafia, and they don't mess with me." He had lots of great stories, but none of us

wanted to mess with him!

[skellis]

A few years ago (alright 20 years) my good female friend and I were assigned to a table for 6 with two couples. The men had a contest to see who could eat the most through the entire cruise, so they ordered three or more main courses as well as multiple appetizers desserts etc. They also drank three or four cocktails with their meal. While they were chowing down they tried to feel up myself and my friend while their wives were sitting right there. We hit their hands a few times and they would stop for a while and then begin again as they got drunker.

 

We asked for a different table but the Maitre ' d couldn't reassign us. (There were no adequate alternative dining venues in those days.) We finally resorted to dropping steak knives on their hands, because we didn't want to upset their wives, but each time we would try to sit with the wives between us, they somehow managed to maneuver themselves next to us. At that time there was no alternative dining, and despite several sticks with our forks, they persisted. One night both wives decided to go to the restroom at the same time and we told the men that the next time they touched us we would tell their wives in front of everyone.

 

The waiter was also abused by the men who talked down to him and were rude to him. The waiter finally caught on to the problem and plotted a revenge. He was able to do a number of tricks which the men always tried to duplicate unsuccessfully.

 

On baked Alaska night (the last night of the cruise) the flames were made with a liquor and our waiter would stick his finger in the cup with the burning liquor and come up with flames on his finger without burning himself. He did it at our table and the men insisted that they could do it, and he said it wasn't safe, but they kept on insisting. So the Waiter allowed each of them to try at the same time, and because they didn't know the trick they burned their fingers. When they complained, he said that he had warned them and then said, besides, this is for these young ladies who you have been bothering all cruise. The wives both started screaming at the husbands, telling them that they suspected as much, and the men denied it, of course. The wives then apologized to us and left the men in the dining room, stating their husbands needed to find somewhere else to sleep.

 

We finally got some justice.

[MadameButterfly]

When DH and I were on our honeymoon on the CB in May 2007, we sat at a big table for the first night for dinner. Our tablemates included another young-ish honeymooning couple, a middle-aged married couple - all of us from various corners of the US and a solo middle-aged lady from Argentina. Dinner was perfectly fine during appetizers, soups and most of the way through entrees until Giselle, the Argentinian lady chimed in to my conversation with the other young couple about our dogs. We had adopted a dog several months before our cruise from local humane society, she snapped her head up when we mentioned that our dog was microchipped by the shelter as a part of the adoption fee. She says "Zees eez not acceptable, your government is tracking you with that chip, in fact, I believe they have put zee microcheeps in food regularly and they know what you do and where you go. Do you seenk this is safe to be bugged and listened to? One day zay will be taking away zee sings you love and throw you in jail." The rest of the table paused eating and stared at her incredulously. The man of the older couple politely cleared his throat and asked about everyone's food, when he got to her, thinking that he had successfully broken the ice and changed the topic, she started up again on another tyraid. She offered everyone at the table a bite of her food because all of us who coincidentally all had steak were apparently murderers and degenerates, so we should "cleanse our blood with vegetables and eat wholesome foods" starting with her alternate menu gnocchi in marinara. She agitatedly got up and walked around the table with her plate in hand offereing to scoot a little on to everyone's plate. The evening concluded with her being very frustrated, sitting back in her chair and muttering to herself while we all ate, drank and enjoyed each other's company.

 

I remember we hardly saw her the rest of the cruise, but whenever we passed our other tablemates on deck we couldn't help but chuckle and smile!

[PennyAgain]

The first time I went on a luxury cruise, my husband and I were seated in the dining room on the first evening when a man I recognized walked by on the way to his table.

 

He said very loudly "I'm going to tell your boss that he is paying you too much. There is no reason for you to be on a cruise like this." I think half the dining room was embarrassed for us.

 

He wasn't kidding.

 

Fortunately my boss knew that it was a 25th anniversary cruise for us and a celebration.

[mikewrit]

We prefer the MDR on NCL. When it is crowded, we volunteer to share a table. Sailing the Baltic, the night after we had been to Warnemunde (including the mad train dash to Berlin and back) we were seated with two gents from Canada, both expatriots from East Berlin. What a great opportunity to talk about the time before reunification. But these fellows soon made it clear they were true believers in the lost East German cause and thought talk of Holocaust was just too much. Awkward!

[Love2Roam]

This didn't happen to me but I have to share b/c it is so outrageous. Friends of ours were seated at a large table and a woman arrived w/ her husband and her teddy bear. She demanded that the teddy have his own seat and ordered food for it as well. Apparantly, the waiters were very accommodating. She was very nice and engaged in conversation at the table but would often lean over to 'talk' to her teddy as if this was totally normal behavior. This went on for the entire 7 day cruise. :eek:

[chasm4u]

:eek: All I have to say is I have a VERY VERY VERY did I say VERY weak stomach. If our table mates do somthing gross with their food or somthing, there is a 95 percent chacne I will will puke uncontrollably!!!! :D

[chasm4u]

This didn't happen to me but I have to share b/c it is so outrageous. Friends of ours were seated at a large table and a woman arrived w/ her husband and her teddy bear. She demanded that the teddy have his own seat and ordered food for it as well. Apparantly, the waiters were very accommodating. She was very nice and engaged in conversation at the table but would often lean over to 'talk' to her teddy as if this was totally normal behavior. This went on for the entire 7 day cruise. :eek:

Thats not bad, Just quirky. My wife and I would find it cute!

[chrisxmoa]

This was a very awkward moment last week on the Emerald, not at dinner but at breakfast in the Horizon. It was Friday morning, Cozumel, very busy so people were sitting at tables with strangers. My DH and I are sitting at a table for 6 and the attendant asks if we mind if others join us. Well no problem, along comes a couple with their plates heaped with food and 4 cups of yogart each. The man proceeds to eat while the woman starts making sandwiches. No big deal so she is having a cheese sandwich for breakfast, European, thats what they eat. WOW she is hungry, she makes six sandwiches, has 3 danishes and 4 cups of yogart. She asks the attendant for extra napkins and proceeds to wrap her freshly made cheese sandwiches in the napkins and puts them in her back pack along with 2 danishes and the 8 cups of yogart. She eats one danish and then takes food off her husbands plate, wraps that up and shoves it to in her back pack.

 

My DH and I are in a bit of shock, the couple did not so much acknowledge us. She grabs my bottle of water (she must have forgot she didnt bring her own water to the table as she didnt have enough hands to carry it because she had 2 plates of food for her picnic lunch on the beach) and leaves the table with her husband close behind.

 

So very strange.:o

 

omg... this is hilarious !!! i wish i could have witnessed this !!

[mitsugirly]

i just wanted to hear some stories from fellow cruisers in regards to dinner.

 

What was the most awkward moment while dining amongst your fellow cruisers ? :p

 

We took our first cruise (for our anniversary) back when we were 22 and 21. The first couple at the table where very rude and made some comments about us being so young (we probably looked like we were about 15 lol) and that we had nothing in common and they ask to be moved to a table with more "mature" people. :eek: Now I have to say, we were VERY mature, quiet, and very polite. I just thought it was weird. But, I'm glad they did move. We got another couple at our table around our age and they were newlyweds. Very nice people. I still have pictures of them.