A bunch of us were on deputation in Mumbai. The company office was in Mindspace Airoli and we were put up in IBIS hotel at Turbhe Naka. The hotel was very good but there was no market nearby and hence we had to go to Vashi for almost everything.

Vashi had 2 malls that we loves to frequent, Inorbit and Centre One. On the first floor of Centre One, there was a shop for t-shirts. The store’s name was “tomato” if remember it clearly.

On one weekend a bunch of us went to this store to purchase some t-shirts. The owner wasn’t there and it was being manned by 2 very young, soft spoken and mild mannered girls. One of our friends went inside the “try room” to try some tshirts. He purchased 5 tshirts that day. We all made our purchases and came back to the hotel.

This particular friend now began to tell us about his smartness. He had changed the price tags of the t-shirts while he was in the try room and was able to purchase the t-shirts at half the price. Most of us were not happy to discover this and were pissed at him. One of our other colleague was , however, very impressed and wanted to try the same trick himself.

Our hero promised to be his mentor and they both went to the mall again. The owner was present this time round. He saw through their trick and did not allow them and smartness. He was polite and generous enough to just let them go and not hand them over to the police.

One the way back our hero lost his I-Phone never to get it back.

This was a case of instant karma. Those poor girls could have lost their job for his skullduggery. He saved, maybe, 1000 bucks but them ended up losing 40000 bucks worth I-phone.

Karma is actually a bitch and Karma was not yet done. In the evening he decided to earn the money from IPL. He placed a bet and lost another 50000 more. Icing on the cake :)