Sipping on a hot cappuccino at one of my favourite coffee shops this afternoon, with the rain plopping gently outside, I learned the following:

1. Matt Damon's daughter and I have the same name.

2. Naseeruddin Shah admires Farah Khan as a film-maker.

3. Carol Gracias is learning French to impress her French boyfriend.

4. Men who give me a second look will most definitely have something wrong with them, such as talking loudly about crop signs and the certainty of aliens.

5. My pregnant, pervert friend gets her jollies from visits to her OB-GYN. Which explains text messages that go something like, "Bitch, why do you have to call when the only man to touch me in a long time is about to start?"
Believe me, dear reader, I cleaned that up a whole lot for you. Not only is my pregnant friend a big pervert, she is also quite abusive and very bad at spelling and grammar.

6. Happiness can actually be bought; such as a small box of Tic Tacs @Rs 10 after an amazing hot cappuccino. Bliss!

7. Credit cards can, sometimes, make you feel safe; like you can have Rs 600 left in your account and still while away a rainy afternoon at a coffee shop, trying to chase your roof-over-head blues.

8. A fair amount of charm and a sweet smile or in my case, the silly and somewhat scary giggles of a 35-year-old woman, can actually go a long way.

So I walked out of the coffee shop, and into the rain, with a FREE bag of enough Italian style medium roast ground coffee to last me a couple of months! Which will go nicely with the coffee plunger set I bought. The best part - I was actually kidding when I told the guy at the counter that I would only buy the plunger if he gave me the coffee for free.

No, you cannot see pix of my loot. And no, I will not tell you which coffee shop. I don't want my new boyfriend to lose his job ;-)