The bus is slowing down, I’m looking out of the window anxiously…YESSS!! I do see the big, beautifully green, almost spherical, heavenly things that can always bring a huge smile on my face!! Rereading back what I wrote, probably you guys must have no idea what the hell I’m taking about! Well actually all I see that makes me so so so happy is Tender Coconuts!! I’m totally mad about them and cannot get enough!!
I have my particular friends who enjoy Nariyal Pani as much as me, if not more! And if you ever want to find us after four o’clock, there is no doubt you will se us on the Panjim bus stand sipping away to glory on a DE-LI-CIOUS tender coconut! This has become such a routine for us that we honestly believe that the only reason worth going to college is that on the return journey we get to have a feast fit for a king in our opinion! Seriously you can just throw away all the soft drinks and juice’s, nothing in this world beats Nariyal Pani!
Just thinking about the cool, sweet water can make my mouth water right this instant! And the truth is, we can never get enough! Sometimes we have two coconuts if we feel like it! And I must say, the coconut seller on the bus stand, is such a sweet soul, he sells us the coconuts a little cheaper than the rest of the thirsty individuals surrounding his shop. I bet we are the ones who give his business the boost, I mean imagine, one (sometimes two) coconuts, each of us, everyday!! And we have been doing this from January! So you can imagine the money he must be making off us! Lol! But no, seriously, the coconut seller is like the best I’ve been to till now and I mean that. Because if we just tell him that the water is not sweet or the Malai is not to our liking, he willingly cuts open another one and charges us for only one!
Today, we went to his shop, in the rain, without an umbrella just for that one coconut! My friend got a not so sweet one, so he cut her another and me? Well he cuts open the first one, looks at it, throws it. Cuts open the second one, looks at it, again he throws it. Cuts open the third, looks at it, yeah you guessed right, throws it! And then finally after a looooong time he cuts open one which is really huge and full of water! And the Malai….yummmmm! it was so delicious, just the way we like it, the paper thin, sweet Malai! Just think, he cut open four coconuts and threw them cause he knew we would not like them! So I guess being a regular customer does pay off at times! Oh yeah, we gave him just twenty bucks, which honestly, was all he was expecting!
I tell you, after our college re-opened, we went so eagerly to the bus stand after the first day of college in the heavy rain, in a very eventful evening which included my friends’ slipper being washed away by the water puddles and her standing on one leg waiting for someone to bring it back!! But nevertheless we staggered to his shop to find what? No coconuts! Boy were we sad. It was just too bad that he could not get them in the rains and was expecting them only after 2 months! Those two months were agony for Nariyal Pani lover’s like us! And the day he got them, we were overjoyed.
I still don’t understand how people can drink Pepsi and Coke and other crappy drinks when there is something as pure and tasty like coconut water! I mean what does that cold drink give you? A hell lot of calories, pesticides and huge amounts of gas in your stomach forcing you to produce an ugly burp! Ewww! Whereas coconut water is by far the most tested and trusted thirst quencher and will always be! Probably water comes first! 
Sometimes my friend and me think we are like addicted to Naryal Pani! I mean we honestly crave for it and keep wanting more and more! But who cares? Being addicted to something good never was and never will be a bad thing, right peeps? 
So to all those people who have not tasted coconut water, you definitely are missing something! I bet you taste it and you’ll never want to drink anything other than that again! So tomorrow, when you are thirsty, think about coconut water before you head to the shop to buy a bottle full of calories and pesticides and a whole lot of gas!
CHEERS!
