Last Thursday at the Starbucks in Lionville, a lady left her pocketbook on the table to go to the restroom. This to me was news.
I'm used to Philadelphia, not the outer limits of Chester County, where the open spaces seem to free people from clutching their handbags as if they were bulling through the line of scrimmage.
For the next several months, this child of the suburbs is going home. I'll be reporting my columns in the surrounding Pennsylvania counties, and what better method on my first day than to get lost?
I'd never heard of Lionville, and might have missed it had I not overshot my exit and wound up 14 miles farther down the Pennsylvania Turnpike than planned.
That the turnpike exits are numbered according to their distance from Ohio was another of my revelations this week as I put a couple hundred miles on my car, checking out complaints from SEPTA commuters and investigating the story of a 5-year-old and his wish for a water buffalo.US NEWS PAPER
I'm used to Philadelphia, not the outer limits of Chester County, where the open spaces seem to free people from clutching their handbags as if they were bulling through the line of scrimmage.
For the next several months, this child of the suburbs is going home. I'll be reporting my columns in the surrounding Pennsylvania counties, and what better method on my first day than to get lost?
I'd never heard of Lionville, and might have missed it had I not overshot my exit and wound up 14 miles farther down the Pennsylvania Turnpike than planned.
That the turnpike exits are numbered according to their distance from Ohio was another of my revelations this week as I put a couple hundred miles on my car, checking out complaints from SEPTA commuters and investigating the story of a 5-year-old and his wish for a water buffalo.US NEWS PAPER
