Other times, they lean toward each other, gathering themselves for that climactic note.
Groups of regulars in gas stations, diners, churches and other gathering spots have allowed me to listen as they visited with one another.
In fact, many appear to have been arrested for petty offenses during sweeps over the last week of bars and clubs and other gathering spots across Addis Ababa.
In meetings, online forums and conversations in the aisles of the co-op and other gathering spots, people here have struggled to understand how Mr. Gagnon could have harbored such anger.
That's the third thread in that time, over 500 pages long, and you could also look at the Neogaf forum or a hundred other gathering points on any given week of the year.
It had begun slowly, tenderly, face-to-face, with long, lingering looks at each other, like devoted siblings at the start of a long absence taking their last leave of each other, gathering in all the details they had neglected to notice up to now.
They organised against each other, gathering names for letters to send to the newspapers, corralling competing businessmen and women to take up their cause.
They are taking care of each other, gathering food supplies, blankets, and clothes that can allow people to remain outdoors even as the weather gets wetter and colder.
Many were health inspectors charged with making sure San Bernardino County's restaurants, pools and other gathering spots were clean and safe for the public.
Schools, theaters, bars and other gathering places were ordered closed.
And his subjects are almost always peacocking in some park, café or other gathering place.
