Nevertheless, we headed out before daybreak and early the next morning found our guides Bryce and Rochelle waiting next to a boat that gave off the aura of the ill-fated fishing boat the Orca, from Jaws.
Waiting next to us was an American doctor who had been on emergency-room duty when gunshot victims began to come in.
We were waiting next to a sign that read, "Track closed due to avalanche danger," while a growing crowd of hikers accumulated behind us.
Given a chance, I would have explained, but I didn't get the opportunity, because you're right there at the counter and there's someone waiting next to you".
I explore, whirring left, right, up and down, before handing on the remote control and eyepiece to the person waiting next to me.
An assortment of free toiletries, including toothbrushes and toothpaste, lay waiting next to the square sink, while the walk-in shower felt big enough to swim in.
He wound his way past giant carnival masks and fixated smokers staring at the slots, and through an unmarked door to the loading dock, where crates of plucked chickens sat waiting next to plastic bags of chili.
I was waiting next to a window where customers pick up their orders under the shade of a ficus tree at the Stand, a vegan outpost whose red barn on Thalia Street has been part of the landscape in Laguna Beach since 1975.
On my first day of university, I stood in a queue to collect my student ID card, which would enable me to open various establishment doors – a card I would lose two days later, resulting in me spending three years waiting next to said doors.
He started off waiting next to currency exchange windows, trying to tempt customers with a better rate than those offered by the banks.
Waiting next to a lamppost bruised by a birdshot round, an anti-Brotherhood student called over a pro-Morsi supporter to chat with us.
