Sentences with phrase «little lunch counter»

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We're introduced to Dom and his little sister, Mia (Jordana Brewster), who run a beat - up lunch counter when they're not drag racing through the streets of L.A. Undercover police officer Brian (Paul Walker), sent to investigate a string of truck robberies that Dom may or may not be involved in, is immediately distracted by Mia, who serves him tuna sandwiches on white bread with the crusts cut off.

I sat there in the car with the gravel dust blowing across the parking lot and saw the place for what it was, not what it was right at that moment in the hot sunlight, but for what it had been maybe twelve or fifteen years before: a real general store with folks gathered around the lunch counter, a line of people at the soda fountain, little children ordering ice cream of just about every flavor you could think of, hard candy by the quarter pound, moon pies and crackerjack and other things I hadn't thought about tasting in years.

Normally, I would've done a little homework before driving three hours to spend $ 59 on a counter top, $ 30 on gas and $ 10 on lunch - but since the whole trip was pretty spontaneous, I didn't even think about hopping on Ikea's website to make sure they had the counter top we wanted in stock.