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Any CF Karma stories

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Bethany83 · 04/04/2024 10:44

Inspired by yesterday's thread of the bill splitting karma, which was very uplifting to read, can anyone share any stories where CF got their come uppence? These will be a wonderful read for all especially victims of CF!
I don't have any to offer I am afraid...

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SmudgeButt · 08/04/2024 18:09

The time my manager called me into her office to talk to me about how badly I dressed for work.

She had a nice heated office while I was in a basically unheated corner room in a 200 year old church. I would wear heavy trousers, turtle neck, big jumper to ensure I didn't freeze.

She was wearing a pretty little floral Laura Ashley dress with a lace collar.

She had baby sick all down one shoulder. Of course I didn't say anything.

SmudgeButt · 08/04/2024 18:40

TeeBee · 08/04/2024 11:08

I used to go to karate as a teen. One day, we heard that one of our sensai's had been mugged by a gang of youths. This guy looked like a frail, meek George Roper so they obviously though he was an easy target. We all gasped when we heard...not because we thought he'd been hurt but we knew what an absolute weapon that guy was. Had a punch you would never, ever want to be on the end of.
So he turns up for class with a black eye and a small cut on his head and goes to get changed. We all sat in the dojo very quietly waiting for him to enter. We then hear rip roaring laugher coming from the changing room from one of the other sensais. Apparently he'd beaten four guys to a pulp and the police patted him on the shoulder and told him to go home. Perfect! He was so low key about it too. We already had a ridiculous amount of respect for this guy anyway but he did set the universe on the hinges just a little more that day. Legend.

There's something about karate I think....

OH used to teach English to foreign students and had this tiny shy girl (14 or 15?) from Iceland in one of his classes. One day she came in and was just about falling asleep on her desk. He jokingly chastised her about going out clubbing the night before and she admitted that she had been out too late. What's more she'd been going home by herself at about 1 am and was approached by 3 big lads who thought she was an easy target of course.

Next thing they know one is flat on his back, another is crying as he has a broken arm and the other was desperately trying to call for help. Being a good and conscientious person she stayed with the ones that were down, called the police and ambulance and went to the station to give a statement because she didn't want to get in trouble. She was the top junior Icelandic karate champion.

GG1986 · 08/04/2024 18:46

A man didn't hold a door open for me, I was literally right behind him so he couldn't have not seen me, he then walked into a glass door, I couldn't help but laugh.

Willmafrockfit · 08/04/2024 18:54

not really karma, but it made me happy,
there used to be a cut through in the middle of the dual carriageway, to go across the opposite lanes and into a lane,
i was driving, went into the right land to be prepared to go to this cut through,
car behind me, right on my tail, flashing, i imagine i was still indicating right, then lo I turned right!
it gave me great pleasure

DistinguishedSocialCommentator · 08/04/2024 18:56

Years ago we had a crimainl family renting a house on a road around the corner from us. I almost caught him one day trying to break-in to our home as it was winter about 4-30 and the car was not on the drive so he thought he'd jump the rear garden gates and tried to break into the back of the house. I was a bit unwell and just lying down on the sofa and heard the door ring earlier but ignore it as family had a key and the other important people always range before coming

I saw him he saw me. I called the cops but it was his word againt mine. He then made our life hell hanging around outside the house then late at night with mates throwing lights etc on our drive - this is before almost everyone had cctv/etc

Then about a year later I stopped seeing the dog mess. It turned out so foes of him gave him a massive pasting something to do with oning drugs money that the family left the area, LOL😂 - he/they made our lives miserable and they wanted us to move via intimidation but we stayed until they left and moved a year later

CaravaggiosCat · 08/04/2024 18:58

My Dds life was made utterly miserable for a time by a bullying racist boy at secondary school. She was a timid pretty little thing so easy target. The school were useless at sorting it out but eventually he got bored and moved onto something else.
A few years later on her way home from work she saw a homeless person begging in the street. She's the sort of person who will stop and buy people food or drinks and has been known to sit and chat with a young homeless girl she used to regularly see.
Anyway as she approaches she realises it's school racist....she virtually skipped through the front door with a massive grin on her face and no she didn't stop to give him anything except a smug look.

venus7 · 08/04/2024 19:00

Thefutureisourownpath · 04/04/2024 14:52

On the way home from work - double lane meeting into one. Heavy traffic. No lane had priority. Merging one by one - I let the car go on my left in front of me, and admired the car a very nice new Tesla and the driver thanked me- but the twat behind him wouldn’t let me in and shot forward. I looked across - not a bad look and he had his window and shouted ‘that’s right 4 eyes (!!😂😱) I don’t give way to no f**ing women’ and I just waved him on and thought rather have that idiot in front of me and he promptly smashed into full pelt into the brand new Tesla. All caught on my dash cam. The driver in the Tesla was furious and got out - twat man’s face was the total picture and I got out and said to nice Tesla man - are you ok. And he said are you happy to be a witness? And the twat man got asked ‘what the hell are you playing at look at my Tesla ?!’ I said ‘I can do better then witnessing I have all on dash cam including the words!’

Later wrote a statement for police and he got done for careless driving or something (didn’t go to court or at least I wasn’t required) karma

I really like this one....wish all aggressive drivers got their come uppance.

Emotionalsupportviper · 08/04/2024 19:04

Pudmyboy · 08/04/2024 13:12

barger damn autocorrect!!

Oh - I thought you'd mistyped "bugger". 😁

Fluffybagel · 08/04/2024 19:06

Very early 20s, possibly even 19, I sold some shoes to a friend whilst I was out of work, nothing expensive, a total of £10 and said she would pay me on payday, all friends going out for a meal, I asked if I could have the moneyso I could go, but she said she couldn’t afford to at that point, even though she had a job! I never got the money. she listed them online so I created a fake profile and bid on them and won them every single time 😂 luckily I am in a MUCH better position than she is now.

CameltoeParkerBowles · 08/04/2024 19:12

SmudgeButt · 08/04/2024 18:40

There's something about karate I think....

OH used to teach English to foreign students and had this tiny shy girl (14 or 15?) from Iceland in one of his classes. One day she came in and was just about falling asleep on her desk. He jokingly chastised her about going out clubbing the night before and she admitted that she had been out too late. What's more she'd been going home by herself at about 1 am and was approached by 3 big lads who thought she was an easy target of course.

Next thing they know one is flat on his back, another is crying as he has a broken arm and the other was desperately trying to call for help. Being a good and conscientious person she stayed with the ones that were down, called the police and ambulance and went to the station to give a statement because she didn't want to get in trouble. She was the top junior Icelandic karate champion.

What a girl! A pity she felt she had to stay with the injured pricks, though.

teawamutu · 08/04/2024 19:15

CameltoeParkerBowles · 08/04/2024 19:12

What a girl! A pity she felt she had to stay with the injured pricks, though.

I think that makes it even better. Really rubs it in 😁

Allofaflutter · 08/04/2024 19:29

When I was at 6th form we had a teacher called Dr W who was in his 50’s and had a fancy walking cane. He went on holiday to a hot island, can’t remember if it was a Greek or Spanish island but anyway he liked to walk about in the evenings. One night a group of 5 lads started harassing him and attempted to rob him with knives. Unfortunately for them he’s a champion in some martial art and obviously had his cane too. Apparently the lads were still in the hospital when he flew home 1 week later. He was a small framed bearded balding man. But he wasn’t one to attack.

Emotionalsupportviper · 08/04/2024 19:33

EndlessVortex · 08/04/2024 17:31

@GeorgesMarvelousCalpol @BirthdayRainbow defo we should! I can’t even overstate how much it affected me at the time. I couldn’t get over what a badass she was, how she tricked him into getting out of the seat himself. She really inspired me to be a lot bolder and I ended up coming out of my shell in large part because of that incident. She had a black jacket on made of what looked like a combo of suede and leather and I ended up buying a cheapo version from New Look in an effort to emulate her 😅

She had a black jacket on made of what looked like a combo of suede and leather and I ended up buying a cheapo version from New Look in an effort to emulate her

I'd have done the same- Fake it till you Make it!Grin

Johannalaw · 08/04/2024 19:34

Frutiloopy · 04/04/2024 11:00

My husband had a lifelong childhood friend. His friend's fiancé thought he wasn't good enough and told his friend that he couldn't have my hubby as a best man . They chose a best man who in her eyes was a professional from a middle class family .

This best man turned up drunk at the wedding and was so drunk he couldn't barely get his speech out and couldn't read the cards ( many years ago ) He had to sit down halfway through and then run out of the room to vomit 🤮 The brides face was a picture and we laughed like drains in the way home .

You still went to the wedding?! Your patience is better than mine. The notions of some people.

LookItsMeAgain · 08/04/2024 19:39

Mnk711 · 08/04/2024 09:08

@Toogles sounds like a very rude man who definitely shouldn't have been barging you but isn't it polite to let people out of the lift first before you get in?

If they were getting out on the correct floor, I'd assume you would be quite correct.
However the whole karma bit was that Toogles was on the 4th floor waiting on the lift to go to the ground level, the rude man had travelled from the penthouse and wasn't paying attention, thought the 4th floor was the ground floor and then was pissed when the doors closed on him and leaving him on the 4th floor.
Sweet justice 😆

Anotherconfession · 08/04/2024 19:41

Name change as it's about my abusive ex.

I went on holiday with my children without him (as he doesn't do holidays). When we got back it happened to be very late. I noticed he had brought a new loaf of bread. I thanked him for thinking of the kids breakfast for tomorrow but he quickly said that no way was we allowed to use that bread as it's was only for his work lunches.

That night he accidentally left the back door open (which was apparently my fault). There was a big noise in the middle of the night. He rushes down to find a fox. Guess what the fox had in his mouth? His precious loaf of bread! The fox took the lot. I made pancakes for my kids in the morning.

OnePeachCrow · 08/04/2024 19:44

I used to work in an office where we had 6 parking spaces, four went to the managers and the last two were for the six supervisors. They were a bit deeper than the other spaces and at the end of the car park. We worked out that as we all had small cars we could squeeze four cars in and the other two cars would be parked in front facing across the car park.

This worked pretty well, if anyone needed to leave early the others would move for them. Then someone left and this arrogant twat was promoted. He was going out with the bitchiest woman in the office and the two of them used to stretch their work out to get paid overtime, He hated moving his car and regularly kept people waiting for 10 or 20 minutes. It was fairly easy to do as this was in the days before mobile phones. Our main doors would be locked at 3.30 pm and unless you were a keyholder you would need to ring the bell for someone to let you in after that time. There were no offices on the ground floor, so people would usually call the lift and phone from there to get him to move his car.

I was quite good at getting in late enough to park across the front, so they didn't often hold me up. Until one day when I had a family event to get to in London and needed to leave sharp at 5pm. The traffic was light that morning so I ended up with the twat parked across me. I realised he'd blocked me in, so I spoke to him and his girlfriend in the mornng and asked them politely if they could move their car at 5 so I could get to my event. "No problem." they both said.

In the event he didn't move when I asked at 5 pm. "I'll be down in a moment." he said. He didn't move when I got back in and called from the lift. He moved as slowly as possible when I went and stood by his desk and in the end it was 5:30 when he finally moved it, the pair of them laughing their heads off.

Karma came calling two weeks later. Everyone had forgotten what he had done to me, so his brainless girlfriend couldn't stop telling everyone how they had found their dream house and they would need to leave on the dot of 5 pm the next day as they had an appointment to view it.

I knew one of the other supervisors had a doctors appointment and would be in late that morning, so I left home deliberately late and made sure I was parked across the front blocking them in.

They both came to me separately during the day and and told me bluntly I had to move for them at 5 pm. "No problem." I said. Five o clock came and the twat came and told me to move. "I'll be right behind you." I said picking up my coat. I put it down when he went out and waited. Sure enough a few minutes later I heard the doorbell buzzing. He had to wait a bit to get back in because most people were hanging around to see what happened and there was no-one leaving to let him back in. When my phone rang I picked up my car keys and called out for someone to answer and tell him I was on my way down. Of course I wasn't, I wondered around for a bit and went back to my office. The next time he managed to get back in and phone my desk, I was nowhere to be found. I moved my car at 5:40 pm.

They confronted me when they got in the next morning and I told them what I had already told everyone else in the office. "I kept them waiting 10 minutes longer than they made me wait. Next time it would be 20 minutes."

They missed their viewing and didn't get the dream house and they never kept me waiting again.

annieloulou · 08/04/2024 19:58

My daughter and I were on a train to London a few years ago. We were sitting in our reserved seats.
An elderly couple got on the train at one of the stops and spend several minutes walking up and down the aisle in our carriage.
The man came up to me and said ‘you’re in our seats so you will have to move’ . No excuse me or sorry.
I said well no, these are our reservations - I had the printout with the information.
”We’ll see about that, etc …’
Very uncomfortable as everyone was looking.
He went off and got a member of staff, brought them back ‘ she’s in our seats and she won’t move!
the conductor checked his tickets and said ‘ well, you have reserved these seats but not on this train. Your train is later, you’re on the wrong train. And you’ll have to pay extra for travelling on this one!’
No apologies came from either of them.
Ha Ha Ha 😂😂

Accipe · 08/04/2024 19:59

teawamutu · 08/04/2024 19:15

I think that makes it even better. Really rubs it in 😁

And I would have wanted to be a fly on the wall when the police were talking among themselves about the scrotes getting their comeuppance, they probably laughed like drains!

Latenightreader · 08/04/2024 20:03

Soubriquet · 08/04/2024 18:00

Oooo I remember one.

Back in school was a teacher called Mr Wayne, commonly called Mr Wanker among students. It was a secondary school and he was a horrible bastard. Shouted at everything and lost his temper very easily.

One day, he came in ranting and raving about stuff scaring the life out of everyone. Satisfied that he had done his job scaring teenage girls, he went to sit down. Only the chair collapsed under him. He quickly stood up daring us to laugh before leaving the room just as fast.

Then we all burst out laughing.

This wasn’t a school beginning with N was it? It all sounds really familiar!

Tibssix · 08/04/2024 20:16

Two of my children with ASD weren't invited to my SIL wedding, my others and their cousins were. After feeling very hurt and frustrated it was agreed to only bring my two children to the reception for an hour, I wasn't going to go at all but my husband wanted us there as a family. My two are very well behaved and wouldn't have been any trouble because I always have plans in place and would have accessed the situation beforehand, e.g sit in the right place with easy exits etc. Anyhoo, the wedding day comes and when my husband came back from the ceremony to collect me and my two he told me that his cousin had arrived late with her baby in a pram, rushed down the aisle behind the bride, had nowhere to sit so had to leave her baby in the pram behind the row that she had squeezed on to, she hadn't weighed the buggy properly so the whole thing tipped, the baby squealed, an absolute scene. When I arrived at the reception my MIL said I should have just brought my two because they wouldn't have been as bad as that.(🤦🏻‍♀️) I thought it was pretty good karma. The baby was fine, the bride was livid.

Bellesbookshop · 08/04/2024 20:16

Sharontheodopolodous · 04/04/2024 17:58

I used to be a big,fat,soft people pleaser

I also started working with a lady who had 4 kids and a useless 'I'm the man,I don't look after my own kids or do housework' husband

Anyway,she was stuck for childcare one Monday,so I offered to help out as I've been there myself as a single mum

Fast forward,and I'm doing every Monday and Tuesday and anytime she felt like it-all for free (she kissed the bosses arse and he put in a request so I didn't work Mondays or Tuesdays and shared my shifts with her so she knew if i was working or not and if not she'd show up and dump them on me)

The kids wouldn't have been fed and broke a lot of my (and dps) stuff-shed just laugh

I'd had enough,so put a stop to it

So out of sheer spite,boss promoted her to manager so she was above me

I didn't care,which got up a lot of nose's but life went on

(they both spent a lot of time trying to bring me down and being bitchy about me but I didn't really give a fuck and was going for other jobs-my colleagues could see what was happening and where very supportive)

Fast forward about 4 months and I was leaving a shift to go home

I cheerfully said 'bye guys,see you on friday' and left

Came back in-shed gone

I never saw her again

Turned out,her husband had not only had an affair,but had a whole other family-with 4 kids with the ow-who knew about her but didn't care and they lived about a mile from each other-he had a lot of time with the other family as id been babysitting the first lot

She walked out,taking the kids with her and lost everything-the house,husband,everything she owned-the lot

And boss man?

He was fired for being a creepy twat to young girls and assaulting one-they couldn't ignore the amount of young girls voices when they stood together and made complaints so got rid of him

Why does this sound bit far fetched

SisSuffragette · 08/04/2024 20:17

BlueChampagne · 04/04/2024 11:24

Doing 30 in a 30 zone. Car behind too close, obviously itching to get past. Slowed down just a little, they overtook, and promptly got flashed by a speed camera.

Very similar but doing 20 in a 20... overtaker got pulled over by police, made my week

Pudmyboy · 08/04/2024 20:21

Emotionalsupportviper · 08/04/2024 19:04

Oh - I thought you'd mistyped "bugger". 😁

That's what I should have put- much better than barger!😂

Pudmyboy · 08/04/2024 20:30

Fluffybagel · 08/04/2024 19:06

Very early 20s, possibly even 19, I sold some shoes to a friend whilst I was out of work, nothing expensive, a total of £10 and said she would pay me on payday, all friends going out for a meal, I asked if I could have the moneyso I could go, but she said she couldn’t afford to at that point, even though she had a job! I never got the money. she listed them online so I created a fake profile and bid on them and won them every single time 😂 luckily I am in a MUCH better position than she is now.

Does this mean you bought your own shoes back or am I not understanding this properly? (Hoping you didn't have to buy them back!)

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