He leaped into the truck, drove around the mile-square village and in 15 minutes had rounded up the requisite table, chairs and bottle of wine.
Only banks are permitted to have drive-throughs in the one-mile-square village of Great Neck, the oldest developed section on the Great Neck peninsula, which has nine incorporated villages.
Mr. Kapell said he was not endorsing the project but could not ignore the economic benefits that a support port could bring to his mile-square village, which has slightly more than 2,000 residents.
It's only a few hundred yards west of Long Beach Road, the main thoroughfare, and it is within walking distance from virtually anywhere in the half-mile-square village.
Mr Carmichael, speaking ahead of the event in Edinburgh, said: "In cities, town squares, villages and communities across Scotland, people will pause for thought and remember those who have fallen serving their country with honour and distinction.
Now, the square is village, plaza and marketplace in one.
Sooner or later you'll end up in the zocolo (the town square), the village's most popular spot.
That little one square mile village in Greater Miami has always been where one went to buy a luxury item, like Gucci, Hermes or Dior.
In addition to the 840,000-square-foot Donald E. Stephens Convention Center and the 18,500-seat Allstate Arena, the two-and-a-half-square-mile village has 5,501 hotel rooms.
There are 640 homes in the 3.5-square-mile village.
Today, a diverse population of more than 25,000 lives in the approximately three-square-mile village.
