"I'll see ya tomorrow, I'm sure," said the waitress to the old guy beside me as I sat down at a counter full of old guys.
Somehow, we had reverted to pencil and paper to make lists about jobs, task and orders like we were living in the pre-digital age, even though we were surrounded by a counter full of iPhones, iPads and a Blackberry.
Like when Bub was debating between two Lunchables, trying to decide which one would make the perfect lunch that day, and I've got a kitchen counter full of cold groceries getting warm, and a plate full of my warm lunch getting cold, and I want to just roll my eyes and say Would you just pick one already!... but something stops me.
The few simple pavement tables are much sought after; in the long, narrow interior with its big counter full of interesting cheeses and cured meats, diners and imbibers sit on communal wooden tables under towering bottle-filled shelves.
Pharmacies have counters full of diet and figure-improving remedies.
It has a counter stacked full of insurance brochures and a small table where state certified enrollment counselors use a laptop to answer people's questions and help them get coverage.
It is a giant counter-biography, full of alternative facts: films and paintings and music he loved, friends, lovers, idols.
Often in the company of his classmate and sometime girlfriend, Carol (Yaya Alafia), he sits at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter, on a bus full of Freedom Riders, in the Lorraine Motel on the day of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination and in a Black Panther strategy session in Oakland.
This part of the German market is more like our own pink sheets or OTC Bulletin Board, which has always been regarded as the "wild west" of the over-the-counter market, full of fledgling unproven companies.
Precisely at 8 30, the door clicked open, greetings were exchanged with regulars in line and we were ushered inside the two-room restaurant, which has blond-wood tables, a long counter and a display case full of baked goods.
I jumped over the counter and spotted a cart full of money.
