Sharing tables with strangers is completely taboo in most area over here. The only time it is acceptable (in my experiences) is when it is a very large booth, and you can share the table with someone else while not having to look at them.
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Person A Person B
[========table===========] This is acceptable
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Person A
[========table===========] This is unacceptable
Person B
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Thankfully I never have this problem, because hostility comes off of me in a figurative aura, and people generally avoid looking at me. 
I generally think I look friendly, and people avoid eye contact or ask me what is wrong. It's perplexing, but saves me a lot of small talk (I hate small talk).
I generally think I look friendly, and people avoid eye contact or ask me what is wrong. It's perplexing, but saves me a lot of small talk (I hate small talk).Apparenlty I look safe and friendly. Perhaps it is because I am always reading, so it doesn't look like they'll have to talk to me. Of course, that does not explain this lady who was quite talkative until I had beaten her into submission with my monosyllables.
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- 23/08/2010 04:25:33 PM
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How American of you
- 23/08/2010 05:18:48 PM
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Re: How American of you
- 23/08/2010 05:27:56 PM
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I think the problem is that you go into small cafés.
- 23/08/2010 10:28:04 PM
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But I don't.
- 23/08/2010 11:33:16 PM
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Kilimanjaro is pretty small really.
- 23/08/2010 11:45:35 PM
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it wouldn't bother me to have someone sit at my table
- 24/08/2010 04:29:49 PM
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