LITTLE ROCK — Every Monday-Wednesday-Friday, as many as a half-dozen retirees inhabit the chairs around the circular table hard by the front door of the gym where the fee is cheap and the coffee free.
For more than an hour, the population ebbs and flows. Some stake out a spot for the duration. Some leave briefly to work out; others begin their visit on a treadmill or a back-stretching contraption and then plop down; still others get up from the table and wander a while.
During the come and go, more than one pot of coffee is consumed.