12. Schedule a shopping pause.
Schools, rail stations, offices and shops paused in the memory of the victims of the Indian Ocean area disaster.
For three hours, he and I will wander around his neighborhood on the Upper West Side -- people-watching, sliding in and out of shops, pausing perhaps on a park bench or two -- and talk about what we see and whether something in it might provide the seed for a good stand-up routine.
Donors are also linked to the outdoor fire pit, entry pavilion, theater, reference library, gift shop and "pause areas". Inside the theater (named for the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation) there are 135 seats with donor labels.
We pop in to a comic shop and pause to wonder at the window display of the Superhero Supply Company, stocked with cartons of antimatter, cans labelled "Negative Energy" and packets of spiderwebs.
"The proper adaptive tools shop…(pause) I think that is the major problem.
The shop owner paused and said, "The situation cannot continue like this.
Hurrying to work at a charity resale shop, Roseanne Zielinski paused to tell a visitor that she was for Mr. Gore because she sensed that "he's for the smaller person like me".
Waiting in line at the coffee shop, during pauses between public interactions, or whenever we have a spare couple seconds, many of us reach for our phones.
"Where does she usually shop?" Long awkward pause.
Do you like running your own shop?" Finally, she pauses for breath.
