'Solo economy': Being alone, not lonely


What's weird about dining in a nice restaurant with only you? By yourself, solo, uno, unaccompanied, solitary — or the dreaded — lone which morphs into lonely.

In The Lonely Guy, Steve Martin enters a busy restaurant. When he's asked by the maître d' restaurant, "how many?", he replies, "one." All the diners stop talking and stare at him as the spotlight follows his walk from the door to a table.

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