| The world knew me only as a counterman in an all-night Coney Island cafeteria. |
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| The streets were a black shade of dark this time of night, thought the counterman. |
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| Everyone stared as the counterman gulped and began assembling my creation. |
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| The counterman pulled out a brisket that had been in the smoker for fifteen hours and distributed samples. |
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| They ordered two cups of coffee and the counterman insisted they show him the money before he'd serve them. |
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| Finally, the counterman disappeared behind the curtain again and came back a few minutes later with a headless, plucked chicken. |
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| He couldn't believe what he heard until he craned his neck and saw the counterman just inside the kitchen, reading aloud to himself Homer in the original Greek. |
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| First stop after the barbershop: a sandwich place called Munchies, where the counterman, unsmiling and without a word, placed a foamy drink before Miranda. |
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| I was the alonest. I heard the walking of shoes and I looked in the direction of the noise. It was the counterman. |
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| The counterman still had no clue who she was, ran her credit card with her name on it and shrugged. |
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| They only served simple hamburgers then, with or without cheese, and the counterman, fully as old as my father, polite in his white paper hat, took the order. |
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