Nothing starts until you're all together. You'll hold dinner until the last person's seated. The engine doesn't start until all seat belts are buckled; and if everybody's not paying attention, you'll wait. Hail, hail, the gang's all here: as in the new novel, "My Three Dogs" by W. Bruce Cameron, things aren't right until everyone's gathered. Liam was nearly mute with awkwardness when he met Sabrina.