1.   After dates we would sit on vinyl and chrome counter stools at a favorite diner, drink coffee from heavy cups, tell lies and otherwise practice being adults.

2.   Settling in on a counter stool, she was greeted by the cook, a gnarled fellow in a food-begrimed apron.

3.   The guy on the next lunch counter stool wants an answer.

4.   He recalled his children crying in a Savannah drug store when he told them they could not join white children spinning on soda counter stools because of segregation rules.

5.   He recalled his children crying in a Savannah drug store when he told them they could not join white children spinning on soda counter stools because of segregation.