August is a busy month here, with one bus after another dropping off families and retirees.
One now lives with Naila's family in Elmont, N.Y., just over the county line from Queens; another dropped off her 3-year-old son and flew back to Haiti to try to repair their home.
In 2009, when she had six months of chemotherapy to treat breast cancer, the mother of one daughter's classmate organized a lunch-making brigade for all the Yoest kids, and every school day, one family or another dropped off the lunches in a cooler by the front door.
One customer brought Mr. Fleischman flowers; another dropped off a card thanking the couple for "the 30 years that you have dressed me with the sophistication and class that only a piece carefully selected and provided" at the shop could offer.
"When we think someone is a great dad, what it really means is that we like the way they try".At pains to point out that he's no parenting guru – "it's always a work in progress, once one thing goes right, another drops off" – and that he is not yet the father he would like to be, he does, undeniably, have a lot of experience.
It smells like a fleet of dump trucks emptied vomit and urine on a landfill, then doubled back for another drop-off.
"The 400 IM is like spinning four plates and you've got to keep all four going - if you concentrate on just one, another will drop off," she explained.
But Buck and Bruno "were just overgrown house pets" in the view of Rick McPherson, 64, who came to the zoo Saturday morning with another man to drop off the pythons.
As the team noted, every extra step in the install process offers potential players yet another chance to drop off and move on.
Years later, his mother returned, only to drop off another son, Donyea, and leave again.
Out the start gate, steep down, drop off, another steep, roller, roller, step up, glide, land – I could go on".
