Then something beneath the counter stool where she liked to imagine Chloe sitting drew her attention.

Vance got off the counter stool and went out to the street.

She sat down and spun around on a counter stool two away from me.

"Howdy do," he said, and sat down on a counter stool, his back to me.

He glanced at his watch, then sat on a counter stool and began eating.

There was a register next to the door and a tired waitress sitting sideways on a counter stool.

She sat on one of the counter stools and forced a smile.

He let her go and slid onto the counter stool she had just left.

When he settled on one of the counter stools, she sighed.

And she sat on a counter stool and laughed some more.