Lunch advice needed
Help! Currently I am stuck eating lunch with Stupid Woman and Vegan Lady and Creepy Contractor (except not him today as they wanted to talk smack about him) and frankly they're both terrible conversationalists. 15 minutes later Daft Lass and Sarcastic Guy go down for lunch which would be a much more interesting experience. However, every lunchtime when SW and VL get up to go to lunch they turn to me and say, "Coming to lunch?" and even if I say, "in a bit", and go down when DL and SG go down I get guilted into sitting with them.

Anyone got any suggestions as to how I can get out of eating lunch with them every day without offending? Or am I just going to have to suck it up and snub them?
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 12 Mar 2009, 13:45, 7 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Why...
is it a snub if you sit with someone else at lunch? it's not fucking high school any more.
anyway, i'm trying to figure out if you should man the fuck up or if they should. probably a bit of both.
you could, however, always just pretend you didn't see them before you sat down with the cool(er) kids....
(tuqueboy has been in a medically -induced coma since, Thu 12 Mar 2009, 13:54, Reply)

Find a way of
subtly starting a rumour that Creepy Contractor fancies Stupid Woman and vice versa - SW will probably believe it, and CC will probably be up for anything. Get a Much Ado About Nothing-esque affair going on thusly and they'll be too busy buggering each other senseless in the stationery cupboard to join you for lunch.

Then have lunch with VL. I recommend veal sandwiches. With extra bacon. And replace your pack of crisps with pork scratchings. And your apple with a bull's testicle.

(If all else fails, substituting your standard drink for lamb's blood will probably do the trick.)
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 12 Mar 2009, 13:57, Reply)

Maybe they fancy you
Simple - tell them you're gay.

Might spoil your chances with Daft Lass though.

More constructively, you could take the Man's Approach - sneak off to the toilets just before they'd normally ask you to lunch, then totally ignore them when you go down with the other guys. Give them a big friendly smile and a wave if they make eye contact in the canteen.
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Thu 12 Mar 2009, 14:22, Reply)

Go on a diet.
Then you won't have to eat with anyone.
( girlinthehole, Thu 12 Mar 2009, 15:19, Reply)

Funny you should say that BGB
When the new DBA started they invited him to join us. After two days he was on a diet where he just ate a banana at his desk. After a week they stopped asking and he started going to lunch again but with a different group. Hmmm.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 12 Mar 2009, 16:35, Reply)

Think out of the box....
...plant childrens undies and the some sado porn in their desk and then anonymously report them to the authorities.

Or you could poison them.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 12 Mar 2009, 17:17, Reply)

you have a special project/research (personal)
To attend to. And you're sorry, but are so busy trying to make it all work and must use your lunch break to *focus*

Has worked many years for me, anyway.

Doesn't lunch with co-workers. See enough of them already.
( cackers, Fri 13 Mar 2009, 3:21, Reply)