Karma Returns As Lady Star

The experience in life which you make sometimes surprise you or sometimes shock you. In this post, I am going to share both shocking as well as the surprising experience which I had. First I will share my surprising experience.

Being in Bangalore traffic becomes part of life. As always I used to return from my office to pg by walk. Usually walking back to the house after school or college always make us feel good, relaxing after the day. The same way I used to feel after my work at the office looking at the roadside shops in the evening and observing the happenings in the road while returning to pg. On that day I was walking on the road carrying my office bag. Suddenly the auto-rickshaw which was going by my side stopped and the persons in the vehicles behind the auto-rickshaw started shouting at him. As it was a ramp-up road it was difficult for him to pull the auto-rickshaw. I saw and immediately I asked shall I pull it and he said yes. We were pulling the auto-rickshaw for a while and it was a surprise for me that everyone was looking at me weird thinking as I was wearing a good suit tucked in neat and in shoes why he is pulling the auto-rickshaw.

Another surprise was no-one came forward to pull the auto-rickshaw even the auto-drivers saw and they asked what happened and they left. After a long-distance, the auto driver stopped and came to me with a bright face gave hands saying Thank you repeatedly and he again continues to pull the auto, I asked him where you are going he showed a left cut and to go in that way, he said. I said okay I am also going in that way only I will help you pulling since I felt it was difficult in the ramp-up road even when both of them were pulling the auto-rickshaw. He said no bhaiya but I said it's okay and started pulling the auto again. After the left cut came he stopped and gave the hands again saying thank you so much again in Kannada. After the left cut, it was a slope and he was asking me where is your home in this way I will drop you there. I said its okay sir I will go by walking it's near only but he didn’t leave me shouting “get in bhaiya get in “and got in. Then he dropped and left with a bright face and I think that second made my day. That was surprising and one good experience I had. And the immediate next day it was a shocking as well as surprising experience.

Mistakes are common among the humans and It was a mistake made by me in a mall in selecting the offer opted T-shirts. Actually the offer for the particular brand T-shirt is buy 3 for 579. As me and my friend took four T-shirts and selected three but we dropped four T-shirts in the purchase basket and went for billing. As I was to stand in the queue for billing I was looking the scorecard of the Test match so keenly. In meanwhile the billing was done and I paid the amount. Immediately after billing I was checking the bill I found one extra T-shirt added in the bill. I rushed back to the counter and asked why this was added to the bill. There we found the extra T-shirt and it was billed for a normal price so it is Rs.249 per T-shirt. I was confused and speaking about this with my friend in Tamil and asked the billing person, Can you remove this from the bill?. We dint want to purchase that one but the billing person said we can’t get it back but can give a credit note for the item which can be purchased after some time. The lady who stands immediate behind me noticed this all and suddenly she asked the billing person what if I pay through the credit note for my bill she asked?. The billing person said, yes we can do that but you have to wait till the credit note has been given. She asked me if you wish I can pay with your credit note and pay you the amount. I said, yes we can do that and she waited.

I went for the credit note there raised another problem actually the offer was given for the T-shirt which we dropped and the T-shirt for which we asked the credit note was the selected one. I asked him can you replace the tag and give the credit note but he said no. As they spoke only Hindi it was difficult to converse for me and I decided to return back adding the T-shirt in the expense account. I came back and said to the lady thank you, madam, you go for the bill and explained the things happened. What happened next is ultimate she spoke to the billing person in such an attitude that everyone surrounding us was starring at us. She was asking in Hindi why it can’t be replaced but the billing person didn’t accept it then she was like “if children come to buy something you will cheat like this. Who is the manager here? I will speak to the manager” added by her way and she was moving and we both were going behind her wherever she goes. Then she asked us are you guys Tamil?? as we were trying to speak in English only and she conversed with us in Tamil saying she is also from Chennai. It was like the whole crowd was watching us but she was so bold in her way and she asked us to return all the things which we bought and ask for the credit note and re-bill everything. And finally, they changed the tag and billed it. she saved me 60 rupees. It was a shock and surprise for me when a lady in front of a crowd arguing with the billing person and finally wins that argument.

The lesson learned from both experiences is that even when nobody came forward to help when a person is struggling to initiate it and You will really feel better after helping the person. The same auto-driver has a different character asking high fare if I asked for a trip in another day but the same auto-driver shouted at me to get in for a free ride. This is what we really earn in a society and that comes by helping.we might have heard that help others and do not expect any returns but I say if you help others you will definitely get help in returns, like the same way I got from the lady star in the mall. Finally, one thing to say, “Believe me, karma is not only for the bad deeds you do its also for the good deeds you have done”. I think you have loved reading this. Thank you for reading.