Many people in the crowd of about 20 pawing through the auction lots said they had been regular customers, stumbling onto Canal Surplus en route to nearby Pearl Paint, the art supply emporium.
Kerry stumbles across escape route from war At times of crisis diplomats know to weigh and calibrate every word they utter, particularly if reporters are about.
In some ways, that's a new conversation — as Amy O'Leary wrote for The Times this past spring, many parents are finding themselves explaining to very young children what it is they've stumbled across en route to "My Little Pony".
You back up, try a new route, hit another stumbling block, fall down.
Undeterred by her lack of youth, talent or sanity, our supremely annoying heroine jets from England to France to New York City, stealing a cab and stumbling over a headless corpse en route.
And, even when mergers take place, they often stumble over combining routes, computer systems and cultures.
Daniel Gilbert, in his book Stumbling on Happiness, says that the best route to figuring out if our goals will actually make us happy is to talk to others who have done it.
Christopher Columbus is world-famous for inadvertently stumbling on the Americas as he looked for a faster trade route to Asia.
"I hear you, Lord," he shouted one morning, crashing through a bedroom window, arms beseeching the sky, stumbling into the wilderness of junk that stretches for 10 acres off Route 1, on the edge of this town, population 3,800.
But a stand-alone section is easy to chuck, and we have lost the nonfans who had so often stumbled onto us en route to a recipe or a presidential transcript.
