A wizened, elflike man at Verna's lunchtime table grumbles that he hopes they'll be seeing something more exciting than rocks.
Friends and business associates could avoid them as they pass their lunchtime tables at Barney's or the Four Seasons.
As a result, the Henry Hudson regional district in Highlands now holds mix-up day, when seventh- and eighth-graders sit at other than their usual lunchtime tables; the district also has teachers give workshops on topics like the difference between "ratting" and reporting acts of bullying.
While at Hogan, Roberts became a lunchtime regular at the table of J. William Fulbright, the former Arkansas senator, in the firm's cafeteria.
We're not that far from the time when lawyers had a lunchtime martini and at the next table were the judges, and everyone had bars in their offices; it's really been part of the culture for a hundred years.
Naturally, given that quality, Bread Meats Bread was buzzing on a Thursday lunchtime, its tables crammed with folk greedily hoovering up burgers, dogs and meaty BBQ sandwiches from enamelled plates, as Radiohead were almost drowned out by the sizzling of the hotplates in the open kitchen.
At lunchtime, a table at the brasserie is suffused with light, and by night, the domed glass ceiling twinkles with tiny light-emitting diodes (aah, stars at last).
A lunchtime crowd of office workers is chatting noisily at tables decorated in lime green and purple.
