Reginald Lowery
Anthropology 1200
Mrs. Gail House
28 March 2013
Observation

I was sitting at a round table in the bar area at Blue Monkey, when a male and female both probably in their late twenties entered the restaurant. When they approached the hostess, the male’s hand was on the female’s lower back while she asked for a table. When they got to the table beside me, the girl sat down and then he did. They sat beside each other rather than sitting across from one another. When the waiter took their drink orders, they both got sweet tea; however, the female ordered water with lemon. While they were looking at their menus, they leaned in close to point out different items but they never physically touched.
While waiting for their food order, they ate bread. They each had their own plates for the bread. As they ate the bread, they glanced around mostly and made a few comments about the architecture of the restaurant. It looked to me as if they did not know what to talk about.
The lady fiddled with her hair and looked around a lot. The guy went to the restroom; and, while he was gone the girl got her phone out of her purse. She was still texting when he got back to the table. He looked over at her phone trying to see who she was talking to but did not say anything to her. As she kept texting, he fiddled with his bread, ate some, and watched the basketball game on the television above the bar. The guy finished his sweet tea and did not make any signals for a refill.
The waitress arrived with the couple’s meal. They both ordered wings but were different flavors. She ate with her left hand in her lap and held the wings in her right hand like a pencil. The male held his wings the same as her but his left arm was on the table close to his plate. The girl ate slowly and did not really put her face close to the plate. The guy ate faster holding his face probably five inches from his plate.