Free has it's price

If you had a chance to get a beer and not have to pay for it would you take it? Notice how I did not mention a "free" beer. Nothing in life is free. This exact same scenario happened to me tonight.

I went out for sushi and it was extremely crowded so I had to wait for the sushi bar to free a spot. In the mean time, I sat at the regular bar and ordered a beer. The bartender did not ask me to pay ahead of time or take any credit cards from me. As my spot opened at the sushi bar, the host said I could just transfer my tab to the meal ticket. I followed him to my spot and ordered my meal. After I was done, I noticed the bill only had one beer on the ticket and I had two (including the one at the bar earlier). I did not say anything and closed out the ticket. I was thinking, "Hell yeah, I got a free beer". Then I started to think some more. Karma would not be happy with this situation.

As I was leaving, I went to the bar and asked the bartender if she had transferred my beer to my ticket. Knowing full well that she did not. She said she forgot to even ring it up, but thanked me for being so honest. I paid her cash for the drink and left. Damn it, it truly could have been free and no one would have known. That is not an entirely true statement. No one would have known except me. And that's where my conscious kicked in. Since I was knowingly trying to scam them, karma would have kicked my ass for it somehow.

Why do I think this? Because I did this exact same thing last week. AT THE SAME RESTAURANT. They forgot to put my drinks on the tab and I paid thinking I was lucky. I had a shitty week and I think karma had something to do with it. Well, shitty in a karma sense at least. I was not going to let that happen this week.

I don't know if karma really exists or if it is my subconscious sabotaging me in some way. Either way, it affects my life directly and I don't like it when it kicks me in the ass. I have always believed in the philosophy of "what comes around goes around". It always happens. Sometimes we witness the results, sometimes we don't get to see the results. But they always happen none the less.

Well, I have a full week to put it to the test.