Downtown Vignettes or Why I Love the City

A kid-sized car made of white plastic was parked under the spruce tree. The Mercedes logo front and center. Beside it was an overturned shocking pink miniature sedan with a Maserati logo.

A woman was walking holding a box fan in a box against her chest. She was headed to Walgreen's wearing faded pink pajamas and pink flip-flops.

A man in the Burger King parking lot was holding his cellphone at arms length in his right hand, flexing his biceps on his left arm while speaking into the phone. He switched arms repeating the gesture.

Then I saw Gandhi driving a gigantic blue GMC pickup truck with his grown daughter turning onto Social Street and I knew it was time to go home.