Just chiming in to agree that 6:30 strikes me as a pretty standard “dinnertime.”
To me, suppertime is between 5 and 6.
I grew up in a household that ate supper at 6:00, unless we were harvesting or baling alfalfa, then we ate whenever the work was done for the day. My wife’s family also ate supper at 6:00. So we’ve always eaten supper at 6:00, and that seems to be a fairly standard mealtime in this part of the world.
Bizarre. Do you people go to bed at 9pm? If I ate a full meal at 6pm I’d be starving by 10:30. Every single night for December I am out doing something after that time, either seeing a movie or a show or working. I know my family always eats late but I would have thought standard dinnertime was 8pm, hence the whole 8pm primetime TV schedule.
I go to bed anywhere between ten and midnight. I may or may not have a small snack before bedtime.
If you eat lunch around noon, and then don’t eat the evening meal until 8:00, aren’t you starving by suppertime? If you wouldn’t be able to survive 4 1/2 hours in the evening, how can you make it 8 hours during the afternoon?
8 pm prime time kind of suggests that dinner and dishes will be completed by 8 pm at the latest. The whole “prime time starts at 8” predates dinner in front of the TV.
I think maybe you think your lifestyle is a little more common than it is. I don’t go to bed at 9- but I couldn’t eat dinner at 8 or 9pm and then fall asleep between 11 and 12. Since you mention being out every night in December , either working or seeing a show, my guess is that you don’t wake up every morning between 6 and 7 to get to work between 8 and 9. Way back when , I used to eat dinner around 8 or 9pm - but I didn’t wake up until 9 am and worked until midnight.
When I was growing up, our usual dinner time was 6 p.m. my wife tends to want to eat later, so we usually ate around 7 p.m. now, which seems a little late to me. 8 p.m. seems very late. Being “starving” four and a half hours after eating the main meal of the day seems very strange to me. I don’t see how you can get through the rest of the day with that kind of digestive system.
Yes, that is very true. I absolutely know my schedule is not common, I am in NYC but when I was in the office my hours were on LA time (12-8 est) since many of our clients are in LA. Now that I am remote, and everything is digital, it’s much more flexible but I don’t even get up til 9am at the earliest. I just always thought standard dinnertime was closer to 8pm.
(My parents eat dinner at 11pm every night! I can text them at 1am and they’ll still be up.)
One of mine is the sorta’ flip side of ZonexandScout’s being called at inconvenient times.
I’m not yet retired, no definite plans of when I will, but for me it’s retired people ( friends, family ) who project their “I’ve got all the time in the world” situation on me. Most/all the time they’re calling me during my mid-morning, getting ready for work mad dash ( I work afternoons/evenings ) using the “Oh I figured you’d be home now and it’ll be a good time to call you” logic. Yes, I’m at home. No it’s not a good time to call. If I’m not scrmabling about, I’m just caffeinating and scarcely coherent. ( I’m a heavy sleeper ).
On a related note: it’s either a call, or a text stating basically “call me”, which seems to imply some sort of vibe that it’s a gravely serious matter. When the maddening curiosity overcomes me and I call right now…only to find the message was frivolous in nature. I guess I’m infuriated with myself for allowing myself to be played. 
My parents do this to me all the time. In my case, they always call on Sundays, because they assume it’s not a work day, therefore I must just be sitting at home doing nothing all day. I’m not. I’m doing chores around the house or running errands, because I was at work all week and didn’t have time to do those tasks during the work week. Them calling me to talk about nothing in particular is cutting into the time I was planning on doing those things.
But thing I was coming here to post: The speed at which tickets for some events sell out. I just tried to buy concert tickets this morning. They went on sale at 10:00 this morning, so I went to Ticketmaster at exactly 10:00, and got a message that there were over 500 people ahead of me in the queue. But after a few minutes the queue rapidly shrunk, I got to front of the line, and got a message that all tickets were sold out. It was like 10:03 at that point. Yeah, tickets sold out in 3 minutes.
And only a few to fans, the rest to scalpers. But Ticketmaster likes the scalpers.
I was buying tickets to see AC/DC at Met Life stadium in NY. They went on sale at 10:00. I went to Ticketmaster at 9:15. Got in the waiting room at 9:30. Got in the queue at 10:00. There were over 30,000 people ahead of me in the queue.
At 10:20 it was down to 20,000.
10:30 was under 10,000.
10:40 I had tickets in hand.
I miss the old days of buying tickets.
“C as in cigar, S as in Sam.”
Anyone else know what I’m referring to?
In my case I was buying tickets for Cake, at a much smaller venue. They are doing three shows that weekend, though: Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. I really would have preferred the Saturday show, which is the one that sold out in three minutes. The Sunday show sold out equally fast. I was able to get tickets for the Monday night show, the least desirable one for me.
That Monday will coincidentally be my birthday, though. So I guess that concert will be my birthday Cake.
I’m not really sure what anyone can do about tickets being sold out in three minutes. But I doubt you would have been happier if you had waited on line overnight and the tickets were sold out before you got to the front.
Not at 9pm, but I typically get up around 5 for work*, so if I’m not asleep by 10:30, I should be.
* I could get up later than that, but I like to give myself plenty of time to get going. (So , yes, I get up early because I’m not a morning person.)
I’ve lived all my life in the Central time zone, where prime time starts at 7pm. If we wanted to watch the shows at 7pm when I was growing up, we had to be done with dinner by then.
Concert tickets? OK, I’ll share something that will really infuriate some oldsters. (But I’m sure they already suspected as much.)
Back in the 80s and 90s, when you had Ticketron and Ticketmaster outlets, I worked at the same company as a former city police captain. He knew EVERYBODY in town. If, for example, I mentioned that I was planning on getting tickets to see The Moody Blues, he would just say, “Give me the cash.” The afternoon of the day tickets went on sale, he’d hand me tickets fro great seats. They were usually front row, and often front row center. His secret was that one of the ladies who worked at the local civic auditorium box office was a great friend of his. Right before she’d open the box office window in the morning, she’d print out however many tickets he wanted. He’d see her at lunch and give her the cash to make her drawer balance. Nobody ever noticed or complained that she opened the box office a minute or two after tickets actually went on sale. Plus, hardly anyone knew that they were a Ticketron/Ticketmaster outlet. People who wanted tickets were lining up at the kiosks in the malls.
I can’t tell you how many concerts I went to with dynamite seats. Sadly, she retired about 2004.
Yup. But we just eat when we are hungry. Like normal people do.
Fight Ticketmaster.
You’d have to fight Ticketmaster and any other method of selling tickets online or over the phone, And really, only sell tickets in person at the venue - because if you sold them in person at counters in retail stores * like they did when I was young, they probably wouldn’t sell out in three minutes (depending on the popularity of the performer and size of the venue - but they might sell out in an hour. Maybe after people waited in line overnight or even for days.
* Ticketron had counters in retail stores and malls, but you could go to any Ticketron outlet and buy a ticket for any venue that used Ticketron