Encounter with a Thug

One fine Sunday afternoon I along with my friends had a very pleasant get together at a nearby restaurant where we talked about our work and college days. After a long time we all could find time from our busy life for each other. We talked about various topics including daily routine of office and home, how we had changed ourselves in the last couple of years, old friends and their updates and lot many things. Meanwhile we had a petite lunch and then bid bye to each other and we all left for our places.

On my way to home the talks were reverberating in my mind and I was in a very good mood laughing myself recollecting the leg pullings. If anyone would have noticed me laughing at myself he would have definitely thought me to be an insane moron. But I guess nobody saw me as I couldnt see them for I was deeply engrossed in my thoughts. I thanked God for the wonderful time spent few moments ago.

As I was walking down to my home on  a road secluded and abandoned during Sunday afternoons two persons voice brought me back form the world of thought to the world of reality. They were dressed up in the typical Hindu priests costume having On written down in all over their apparels. What they needed was only a rupee for Mata Vaishnavi Devi ( a famous Hindu god of North India ) Since I didnt mind shelling out a  rupee for all the blessings of the God I opened up my purse in front of them and as I had no change I pulled up a five rupee coin and handed it over to the guy. He took out a small replica of that God and gave it to me as asked me to keep it with me for the rest of life. I was about to leave when he asked me to take out the largest denomination note in my purse and make it sacred by the blessings of God only by making it touch to the photo picture of God. Not aware of his intentions I handed him a hundred rupee note and he murmered something and asked me to give the thousand rupee note which I had to make it sacred too. Then I wondered why was he interested in making my money sacred. I could smell something fishy then and I asked him to return back my hundred rupee note and pretended to be in a hurry. He didnt return my note and held it firmly in his fists. I tried to reach his fist and get my money back but he handed it over to the guy next to him who was his accomplice and left the place. This guy started assuring me that they would return back my money only after making my thousand rupee note sacred. 

Now I was sure of their intentions and tried to trick this second guy by saying that I would make my thousand rupee note sacred but only after getting back my previous note. But that expert judged my intentions rightly and was adamant that he is not going to hand over the note untill i showed him my new note. I became more bold and asked my money back in harsh voice. That is when he realised that his chances of convincing me are in vain and asked me to think that I have contributed my money to two hungry people and my money is used for a noble cause and placed the note in his bag under his shoulders. I reached back to him to get it back but stopped back before placing my hands inside.

Wat I saw inside was horrible.  Can you people guess what was inside? There were 2 snakes inside his bag.  Even though I knew that those snakes werent poisonous I didnt dare to put my hands in. He laughed at me and I threatened to complain about him to the police. In reply he said that he didnt get the note from me and reminded me that I had given the money to the first person who had now left from the place. After his reply I tried to recollect my poor knowledge of laws of catching an accomplice but by that time the second person too left and there was no trace in which direction he fled. I had never believed I could ever be tricked this way.

Now I am in a dilemma whether I should thank God for saving my thousand rupee note or scold him for making someone get away with my hard earned money in such an easy and cheap way. And should I term that act of those guys a good stategy to earn money?

What do you people say? And what had you done had you been in my place ? In the end I would ask you people to be aware of these types of thugs and tricksters.