(Mis)Adventure in Prague - Gone in a wink of the eye

We reached in the inter-city bus interchange in Prague with our backpacks and was about to pay for the bus tickets to Cesky Krumlov when SK discovered that his wallet is gone!
What followed was a considerable period of searching for police station to report the loss (strangely, Prague citizens dun seem to know where their police stations are as checks with them are futile) and concurrently calling back to cancel the credit cards.

When we did reach the police station, SK was asked for identification (i.e. passport) but alamak!, it was left in the backpack deposited at the bus interchange. After some time, the police report is finally made. Despite the pain of losing 100 US$ and the trouble from losing the cards, SK was still in remarkable humour about the whole thing. He even acceded to my request of taking the following photo with his report document, a la criminal style, as a funny memory.

Later, he recalled one period in which he could have lost he wallet. It was on route to the bus-interchange when we were caught in the metro morning rush-hour. Having secured no anchor point in the crowded metro, SK was pushed ard, with his big backpack on him, by the mass of bodies ard him. A lady, one or two bodies away from him, smiled and then winked at him, presumably at his predicament. according to SK, She was not really pretty. Instead, her disproportionately big eyes accentuated by thick rimmed dark-coloured glasses made her a little scary. Despite that, SK winked back playfully, and then gazed away, continuing to endure his ordeal in the crowded carriage. Sometime later, the lady was about to alight and winked at SK again. But SK was no longer in any mood to reciprocate. For all we know, the lady might have worked with an accomplice, and the second wink was her signal for "i got ur wallet & u don't know it"!