No Dime Required

 There are many was to have fun in Center City Philadelphia without spending a dime. 

Use your imagination!  Propose to your cohort that you'll select a guy walking down the street, smack him in the arm, and then offer the lame excuse of, "Oh, sorry, you remind me of my ex-husband."  There's also the option of choosing a well-heeled stranger and explaining how his wife is cheating on him with his brother, but that's only because she's already tired of her play dates with his sexy younger sister.  We never quite figured out how to explain to the random stranger that we know these things, but pretending to do such naughty acts can make you laugh for three blocks at least.

You can offer a complete stranger first dibs on your brownie dessert after you've threatened to steal one of his fries because you're eating broccoli and steamed chicken breast and he's got the better-tasting (read:  high-fat) meal.  You can also take pictures of your cleavage and send them as text messages to random people, but make sure your attractive waiter knows what you're doing so he can offer to give you his number.  You can also torment your potential financial advisor by bringing along a friend who will let him know in no uncertain terms that he sucks as a sales person.  "If you're too busy to drink water with me, you're too busy to manage my money." 

The best way to have fun in Center City is to do nothing at all and wait for the fun to come to you.

As in just sit in Suburban Station reading the last pages of The Memory Keeper's Daughter and mind your own business.   Then glance up and see a familiar face, smile, and say "Hi."  Then it's back to reading until you're engaged in more conversation.

 "If you don't mind me asking, where do you get off, if you know what I mean."  You feel your face flushing as he flashes a sexy smile.

For a brief second you think "he can't possibly be flrting with the likes of me." So instead of giving him a sexy response like, "I get off looking at those baby blues of yours," you just lamely respond with your train number and station stop.

As he boards the train you think to yourself, "Center City is fun without spending a dime."