Interesting/Odd behavior in a restaurant

CabbageCat

Rocker said:

Anyone care to explain this very irritating behavior .........

You got me. It's a mystery.

Indeed, I've worked in restaurants for several years and I don't think I've ever known anyone ask to be moved because they were sitting near someone with a nervous tic. I can see why the waiter would find it irritating though.

lloyd

It's just a leg shake-I do it constantly without realising I'm doing it-it's not (for me) a nervous thing, it runs in the family-we're all annoying cunts. If you place your leg in a certain position and raise your ankle, it just goes off, like a perpetual motion machine, I'm sure on some level it's costing me energy but I think about it and put as much effort into it as I do breathing or making sure my heart beats.

djspecialist

I do this a lot too.

My job is pretty sedentary and I think I have a fast metabolism (eat like a horse and never seem to put on weight) - so I've always assumed this was one of my body's ways of burning off a few extra calories.

jonnyburgo

hobbio

lloyd said:

It's just a leg shake-I do it constantly without realising I'm doing it-it's not (for me) a nervous thing, it runs in the family-we're all annoying cunts. If you place your leg in a certain position and raise your ankle, it just goes off, like a perpetual motion machine, I'm sure on some level it's costing me energy but I think about it and put as much effort into it as I do breathing or making sure my heart beats.

This x 100. I call it jelly-leg, and I do it basically all the time.

TheMarlin

My son gets panic attacks. He twitches his feet like that all the time.  When he starts tapping his chest, I know he's not far off an attack, so do my best to calm his nerves.  

He's getting better, and has some help with it.  It's improved a lot the last few years. I'm his step dad. His real dad was a dick, I think it the legacy of the past that is the source of his issues. 

M. 

edenfield99

I do it too...quite common I think

Wolfetone

hobbio said:

lloyd said:

It's just a leg shake-I do it constantly without realising I'm doing it-it's not (for me) a nervous thing, it runs in the family-we're all annoying cunts. If you place your leg in a certain position and raise your ankle, it just goes off, like a perpetual motion machine, I'm sure on some level it's costing me energy but I think about it and put as much effort into it as I do breathing or making sure my heart beats.

This x 100. I call it jelly-leg, and I do it basically all the time.

Yep me too. I know lot's of people that do. The Mrs for one. Sometimes it's one leg, sometimes it's two. It's normally when I'm ready to smack someone in the mouth for being such a petty fecker....

boogieman

Christian Horner does it all the time during F1 races. I think it's just nervous behaviour. I'd be nervous if I was married to Geri too. 

5redlights

That's nothing. The other day I was at eating Pizza Express and this weird guy on another table wouldn't stop staring at my legs. What is with that?!

benmurray85

The only odd behaviour in this thread is the OP's

still can't figure out if it's a joke!

hobbio

I don't think anyone should be too hard on the OP, there's been plenty of times where some minor little thing someone else does has annoyed the shit out of me.

Hootsmon

obviously a heavy metal drummer practising his twin kick drum technique.........did he have Tourette's too ?

"parri diddle parri diddle parri diddle..........oh pizza!....parri diddle parri diddle......" 

strumjoughlamps

yep sounds like he was nervous the poor lad.. 

this is what you you should have done..

Rocker approaches table.. "first date yes", lad nods head. [Rocker] "well son no need to be nervous, I didn't bag your sweet mum over there by shaking the change out of my pocket at the dinner table, it suggests you come to quick, now take a breath calm down and we will be over there watching should you need us, and remember you only have £20 pocket money so no desserts"

Bogwhoppit

I used to do it with one leg, my eldest daughter has done it since a toddler. 

TheBlueWolf

Sounds like nerves to me too. 

Truth is you don't actually know what caused him to do that and isn't something you should have been annoyed by.

Sambostar

I went to a restaurant and there was this ginger haired person there.  He made me want to puke and really put me off my food, so I asked the waiter to be moved but I could still see him from the corner of my eye.  I walked out of the restaurant in disgust and didn't pay because my time, space and taxes are so much more worthy than anyone else's, especially ginger untermenschen.

Well you know what?  I hope you get rickets you racist bastards.

And substitute bloke with shaking leg with ginger with black and then you are a racist.

Nikko

  

rsvmark

Jazz foot

jaytmon

I reckon he had the inner bit of a toilet roll round his Johnson which was then attached via string down his trouser leg to his foot and he was actually giving himself some man love.

This would definitely put me off my pizza...!