Phantomgiri 1: Trusting a taxi driver to be a Bhaiya

Phantoms: Me, Singhania & Dwivedi
Year: 2006
Place: Punjab

Story:
Three nadaan guys, happy with all the makke de parathe, sarson da saag and butter and the ever welcoming people of Punjab, decide to have some fun in the authentic punjabi way. The three discuss their willingness of trying desi daru while travelling in an auto. The autowallah overhears the conversation and offers to show them the real Punjabi way of drinking. The autowallah says "tum sab mere chhote bhai jaise ho, sab mujh pe chhod do". The guys congratulate each other at their luck in finding such a nice and helpful guy. He takes the guys to a village, calls out a friend who goes inside his hut and gets three steel glasses full of the desi liquor. There's also a pakoda-waalah just outside. The autowallah asks the pakoda-wallah to fry some hot pakodas for his dear vistors. The drinks and the pakodas go down and the guys are all set to leave. The guys ask for the total amount to be paid totally unaware that they are very soon going to be looted in broad daylight. Who's gonna let them leave without paying heftily for the phantomgiri? The autowallah bhaiya orders his dear visitors to pay a huge amount (dun remember the amount but it emptied our pockets for sure with cheap tharra being sold at the price of premium scotch) so that they can quickly leave. With no choice left and a possibility of getting beaten in an unknown area, the guys sadly collect all the money and hand it over to the autowallah bhaiya and leave.

Moral:
Don't trust anyone to be your bhaiya unless your mother confirms it