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Apparently, hanging out in the garage is a new trend:

Patterson remembers one 40-degree day when he and a passel of pajama-clad neighbors whiled away the hours in his garage.

"We sat outside from probably eight o'clock in the morning till six in the afternoon, talking, having some beer, reading the paper," he said.

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"In the garage, the gloves are kind of off," he said. "You can kind of be yourself. You're out of the house. When you go out of the house and into the garage, it's its own escape."

"I only think about things that make me happy" in the garage, said Brewer. "It's almost like therapy."

I immediately dispatched a small email with the link to one of my in-laws who lives in "suburbia" who's told me about the guy up the street who hangs out in his garage. He sent back this eye-witness account in reply:

I swear just two days ago I went to get the mail around 8pm and walked by his open garage. He started yelling "Hell No" at me. He said that I can't just walk by his open garage and not come in and have a beer. He continued to tell me that I needed a beer because I have a pregnant wife and must be stressed out. The best part: I looked in his garage and there were about 6 adults in there drinking beer and playing darts.

So, there you go: chillin' in the garage is the new thing.