I don’t care what they say, Tavern on the Green is a good little restaurant. And I am not what you’d call a great fan of American cuisine. If anything, I prefer Italian, Mexican and, since my recent trip to the University of Jordan, Middle Eastern. Still, Tavern on the Green with their wide selection of reasonably prized delicious dishes is never a disappointment.After lunch I begin walking toward Strawberry Fields. My mother, a lifelong fan of the Beetles, has told me that John Lennon was probably the most effective peace activist during the Cold War years. Having read several interviews Lennon had given I tend to believe he’s definitely above our current yahoos who have to be texted every morning about the causes they are supposed to feel strongly about.Normally I get my energy and enjoyment having people around me, talking, yelling, interrupting each other, but now is the expected time for reflection. In the next two hours it’s going to be me sitting on a park bench letting my thoughts zigzag at the rhythm of the autumn breeze.That’s when a tall well-dressed man stops next to me. Disturbingly, he has a wide grin on his pasty face.“Hey, buddy, what are the odds we bump into each other here in the middle of Central Park at one p.m.? Ain’t that freaky? Same place, same time. That you and me just decided to go for a walk early afternoon in Central Park on a Wednesday? Seven million people live in this godforsaken city, and most of them don’t ever come to the park, maybe only once or twice a year. So what’s the chance? One in a billion?”I am trying to do the calculation, no result, so I tell him, yes the one in a billion seems a good estimate.“Got great news, buddy, we sent the proposed contract this a.m. to you guys so your shysters can make the necessary changes at their earliest convenience which should be ASAP, then send it back to our shysters, they read through it and we finalize the deal in a zoom call or whatever. How does that sound?”I tell him it sounds like a phenomenal idea.He adds, “That way the shysters cannot bitch about this and that later on.”I couldn’t agree more. Shysters could occasionally be difficult. They also like to blame you to cover their own asses.“Now, the thing is we have absolutely top-notch shysters. I am fairly confident your shysters are pretty good too. Right?”I assure him, for the most part, we’ve been quite pleased with our shysters.After he leaves it occurs to me, maybe I should’ve mentioned I am a foreign-exchange graduate student at NYU and only here in the park to enjoy the autumn sunshine and a few hours of quiet.I have the quiet now but all I can do is try to figure out WTF is a shyster.