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Rittenhouse Square

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been reacquainted with my old friend, Rittenhouse Square. I could go on here about how much time I’ve spent in the park in the last 15 years, or recount all the strange things I’ve seen, done and seen done there. Maybe someday I’ll write out all those stories. Not today. Today I’ll list 3 things I saw in Rittenhouse since yesterday afternoon. They’re nothing spectacular, but they’re exactly why I’m perfectly content to sit there for hours.

1. A pigeon landing on a man’s head. He wasn’t feeding the birds, he was just sitting there minding his own business. It must have thought that he was a statue.

2. An 8 or 9 year-old boy standing in the middle of one of the fields, hands on hips, pants around ankles, peeing freely into the evening air. He waved to onlookers.

3. A young, pretty woman pulling a 6-inch fat wad of bills from her pocket. They were all ones and they were all kind of crusty looking. It took a few seconds for me to realize where they came from.