To further complicate matters, the course was often teeming with curious spectators.
From a distance the throngs looked like spectators merely curious about a construction project.
The buzzing had already stopped, and before she walked five feet, another hush fell over the curious spectators.
Early the next morning, the inn yard was filled with curious spectators.
"She's 10 - or some obscene age like that," he informed a curious spectator.
Hundreds of curious spectators lined the route between the funeral home and the cemetery.
He went over to the parents to chat, not knowing who they were, just one curious spectator to another.
The other side of the bar is open to the general public and there are usually seats for curious spectators.
It couldn't be worse, Sara told herself, than facing all the curious spectators at her trial.
After races, a few curious spectators may get close to riders to see what they and their bicycles look like.