While Mr. Romney would hold four town-hall-style forums the next day, Mr. Giuliani's campaign scheduled one, in Windham, at the end of a day of diner-hopping.
Now through June, diners can hop on board for an armchair trip to Calabria.
Once in a while one of the diners would hop over to another table to visit; almost everyone lingered, conversing animatedly, long after the last course was served.
In 2011 he left his Thompson Street studio co-op, which he now rents out, and moved into the space above Miss Lily's, the hopping Jamaican diner he co-owns on Houston.
She was the slim woman of middle years who was hopping energetically around the small dining room, greeting old patrons, overseeing waiters, schmoozing with diners here, there and everywhere.
From an early age I fell in love with those gritty American writers, from John Fante to James Ellroy, whose lonesome characters are always hopping onto buses, contemplating small-town America with a quart of rye, and having liaisons dangerous and otherwise with diner waitresses.
Picture a dripping mummy hop, hop, hopping.
"Are you down with hopping a fence?" Pratt asks as we approach what he simply refers to as "the construction site", an empty lot down by the waterfront, a 10-minute walk away from the diner.
Career-hopping and hopping and hopping.
A West New York man hopped on a milk truck near a diner yesterday and took it on a fatal joyride, hitting homes, telephone poles and trees before landing in front of a house in East Rutherford, the police said.
