When I fell and hurt myself outside of the Liberty Bell enclosure in 2012, the park ranger helped me inside and sat me on a chair about 3 feet away from the Bell itself. He cleaned and bandaged me, which was really nice of him. It was a pretty cool experience being that close to the Bell, but I still didn’t get to touch it.

(Long story short for the curious, I was wearing flip flops heading somewhere nearby, a pouring rain hit, I was trying to scurry to shelter and ended up biting it. Had a big gash on my foot from the corner of the curb.).