A challenge to the Beigeness

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So...

A few friends of mine and I went out to play a little bit of tennis a few nights back, at around 9 at one of the few courts that have lights in downtown Ottawa. Let's neglect for a few minutes that, while the court has lights, these lights, ahem, weren't on (well done, City of Ottawa). What this is more about was the scene in the park. When we got there, there were two guys throwing around a football under the lights of the baseball park there. Unimpressive, I admit. Then there was our group, trying to use street lights (mostly in futility). After the football guys left, a group came outside to have a bit of a picnic (OK, it was chips and pop) and play Smart Ass at the table right behind the tennis court. Not something you see daily, but that's cool. It was the other table that was most surprising. Well, it was probably more of a common occurrence than a late night tennis or Smart Ass game... A few crackheads lighting up. All these groups in the same park, just chilling out - tennis players with no lights, guys throwing a football, Smart Ass players, and crackheads, on a casual Ottawa Monday night...

That's a bit less beige than I'm used to...