Things I learned hanging out in a café located in the rich side of town

• That I really am a poor schmuck. Kids—mind you kids—tote laptops in bags that cost more than my annual income. Then the parents come in toting bags that cost my annual income for the next three years plus change.

• Teens nowadays are heck of a lot girlier. I was hauling my stuff in a trusty Samsonite laptop backpack while they had dainty leather bags.

• Kids have huge allowances. They must spend around a P100-plus per drink per day and that doesn’t include their lunch money, their snack money, etc. So much for the hundred pesos a week I had then.

• Women who are—ehem—on the heavy side should never wear very tight checkered short shorts and then bend over. Waahhhhhh! Men should never do this too! I would have taken a photo but I was too afraid.

• While you worry about your deadline, your seatmate is worrying if she should get the new LV bag since se just bought one.