My mum was frantic, asking to know what I'd done wrong.
Coffee, cigarette smoke, fishy raingear and a frantic need to know charged the wheel house.
The well-meaning has-been Bret is surrounded with women who are too young, too frantic or too high to know that being easy isn't funny in itself.
Parents woke to frantic calls of other parents, begging to know the location of their missing children.
In this self-contained place, everybody seems to know everybody, and the grief as the deaths accumulate has been frantic and terrified.
"I don't know any emergency numbers, and I really would love to know if anybody can tell me what is happening in Hensonville," one frantic caller, Joan, said that Sunday.
After the invasion began, in March, 2003, Iranian officials were frantic to let the Americans know that they wanted peace.
Which raises the obvious question: Why is he so consistently frantic to ensure that no one knows what goes on behind closed doors?
"I was getting so many calls from people who were frantic, didn't know what to do," said Skenderian, who has conducted business in Laguna since 1972.
And come in they do, the people out there are getting frantic, they know the great American ride is ending".
