He was discovered waiting tables in New York.
I have always been fascinated by these found ephemera, the traces of past readers, and the story made me wonder what other items readers had discovered waiting for them in old books.
By not putting away money for retirement, delaying attending to medical needs until they become much more serious, going on last-minute holiday shopping jaunts that run up credit cards because we don't have time to hunt for bargains and, as many of us have discovered, waiting too long to sell stock.
One frigid evening last February, I arrived, on time, to discover Bourdain waiting for me, already halfway through a beer.
Still, as a junior member of NATO -- it joined in 1999 -- and an even more recent entry into the European Union, in 2004, Poland may discover that waiting its turn, as grating as it might be, is the most realistic way to secure elite European diplomatic posts.
It's only when he discovers Peter Guillam waiting for him in his flat and is thrown back into action that he becomes truly himself.
That was what Estella Natal, a language teacher in New York, discovered while waiting for her Cuban husband, Joel Prince, a doctor, to join her.
Because there are TVs everywhere one goes – restaurants, hotel lobbies, airports, even, I discovered, doctors' waiting rooms – and because they're all tuned to one cable news network or other, the coverage was inescapable.
First up is David Boone from Cleveland, an aspiring engineer who applied early action to MIT, his first-choice school, and is now discovering that waiting is the hardest part.
Some, the investigation discovered, have waited over a year.
