Any CF Karma stories

[Bethany83]

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...

Getting on a train after a work trip with a five hour journey ahead of me, train was very busy with odd seats here and there but as I got on a man got out of a chair and left an empty double, which was weird but great and would let me have my bag next to me spread out a bit etc, I hadn't realised two women were all coveting it from the other direction, my mistake and fair enough they wanted two seats together so I would immediately let them have it but they brought this to my attention by standing about being absolutely awful and rude about me to each other very loudly 'those were our seats what an ignorant cow etc', over a genuine mistake, it was so stressful and humiliating and it started to create a bit of scene, they could have just said to me, i was embarrassed that i hadn't realised, anyway deep breath and stood up, said to them i assume i am the cheeky cow and disgrace you are talking about who stole your seats, please have them, and as the whole carriage watched glued to the drama i gathered my stuff, stood up and waddled my 8months pregnant self off in search of another seat, everyone in carriage gasped and audibly booed and tutted those women and people rushed to help with my bags and get me a seat while they stood muttering and mortified, they got absolute daggers and disdain from everyone and i felt a whole lot better.

This is priceless, bad for you to have experienced this but what an amazing humiliation for them.

if it’s a Q5 it would be an Audi! - but never mind, MN’s love bashing BMW drivers!

Bit of gentle karma 😉 long but equally humbling.

Moved onto a new development (HA) after what our family had been through it was welcome and lovely, a fresh start. A small 3 bed mid-terrace with a reasonable sized 4 bed either end. The gardens were small and the estate quite snug, but the area is semi rural and surrounding was beautiful 😊 very appreciated, also relevant 😉

Our neighbour moved in before we did, when we had accepted the house, exchanged pleasantries and OH offered his help to carry some bits upstairs - all very neighbourly. A few years go on and we get on - neighbour would talk about how they hated being so squashed against other houses; how previous house was detatched and away from people; how small and cramped their house was (it was much larger than ours, same size family etc) and how much they disliked the surrounding people (they really were lovely!) and how awful the allocated parking system was. Generally just miserable and bitter about their awful living circumstances 🙄 they would frequently make digs about how small our house was, how they felt sorry for us and how we wouldn't get anything better etc we on the other hand were just grateful to have struck gold (in our eyes). Other neighbour moves into other end a few months later. No issues with them but our other neighbour judged them (another story!).

Fast forward and the pettiness started - banging on the walls (we weren't any more noisy than them since both had SN children, if anything they were more so but we always reassured we 'got it' knowing it wasn't either person's fault), blocking our cars in, smacking their car doors into ours, then moving onto making malicious claims to SS, contacting HA about our 'council like' behaviour 🙄 intimidating our children to the extent they were terrified of leaving the house...just bloody awful. No one liked them (other neighbour saved face) and basically just horrid to everyone. We tried to just keep our heads down and stay put of their way, constantly telling the kids to be quiet to avoid them banging on our door...it was really stressful. I had to call the police a few times because they would stand on the path facing our house making 'cut throat' motions, knowing they were being recorded on camera (we had to put up cameras as we were terrified, all ok'd by police, records kept).

Our entitlement went up to a 4 bed (medical need!) and thinking nothing would come up local, accepted we'd likely have to move areas - is what it is. Houses come and go, and we see the new development round the corner was opening up, house comes up, we bid. We didn't know what house it was just that it was better suited to our needs/adaptable. We find out 2 weeks before what house it was...we felt like had hit the jackpot! We all cried - to be away from the torment, needs accomadated and not having to uproot and move miles away 🥲 truly grateful. Whole family goes into stealth mode as neighbours notice we're loading our car up with stuff...we told NO ONE we were moving 😈 we just wanted to disappear, no drama. Move day and a big removals lorry turns up, we instruct them to detour so neighbour would think we're moving out the area 😈 being a small area, gossip gets back to us that we had apparently got kicked out 🤣 we hear bits but let it go. A year later the previous neighbour from other side of us drives past when we're out the front - catch up a little, put the rumours right, they comment how lovely our new house was, wished us luck (side note, they kept out of the 'drama' and maintained a click relationship with other neighbour- another story!) and off they went. Being gossips we knew our location would be given away 😉 now during this catch up they mentioned how hellish the new family were that moved in after us - loud sweary music, constant banging, unsociable behaviour; how the awful neighbours were constantly phoning the police and reporting their shenanigans. How the new neighbours kept making allegations against them 😉 hearing that made us appreciate how the world revolves and how lucky we were to be rid...

...In our large, detached house, front and back garden as big as the whole joined 3 houses put together, with own drive AND garage on a 'more open' development 😉 occasionally our paths cross - we blank them and they just scowl at us or drive AT us if see us on the road 🙄 but I like to remember their comment of how we got evicted because of how awful we were...yup, kicked out and put somewhere they wanted 😇 the rent is enormous but still cheaper than previous neighbours would be (for the average person I'd feel bad, but not to them since we're commiting fraud- another story! 😅) but my children are finally happy and relaxed. Very grateful 😊 we still have cameras up and have file still open with police just in case, worried they'll start again but can only hope them having other issues to deal with, that we're free 😉

My BIL (husband's brother) and SIL are, in their eyes, always the best. They have the best children, the best house, the best gadgets, the best cars, the best lives. SIL would put random posts on Facebook to show what a wonderful parent she was and what a wonderful family she had, sit back, and wait for the beaming reactions to pour in. I'm not on Facebook but my husband is, and he would report to me on SIL's particularly smug and gloating posts.

SIL's son was about eight at the time and one weekend he attended a classmate's birthday party at one of those bouncy places. The kids played for a while, then sat down to pizza and soda for lunch. As the pizza was being served, nephew announced to the gathering that he wanted sushi instead. SIL posted this on Facebook the same day. She didn't get the reactions she expected, though. My husband showed me the responses:

"Well, that was rude!"

"Oh, that poor birthday boy's mom. Did she have to run out and find little Johnny some sushi?"

"He sounds like he's high maintenance."

To the "He sounds like he's high maintenance" post, nephew's grandmother, SIL's own mother, responded, "Oh, you have NO idea!"

I don't recall my husband telling me about any smarmy SIL posts after that 😏

Me and my colleague occasionally went out for a drink and to bingo at the weekends and I new that she was getting divorced from her husband who had cheated on her and left her for the OW. My colleague was left to pick up the pieces with the kids, including the financial burden since her husband was blowing his earnings on impressing OW. Well, a few weeks before the divorce was finalised we went to the bingo and we ended up winning a smallish six figure sum. We always split any winnings but we agreed that the winnings would be paid to me only until her divorce was finalised. The week after the divorce I transferred her her half of the winnings, her ex got fuck all he didn't deserve it. We have both never told anyone about our wee win and are just grateful that we can be quietly comfortable. She and her kids are fine. Her ex husband is now single after OW left him, and broke. I've seen a
few pity-party poor me messages he has sent to my colleague now that he has to pay for everything alone. Poor guy doesn't quite understand how my colleague is managing without him.

My ex manager. She treated me in the most terrible way. I was told I must do overtime when I was 7 months pregnant and my husband was in intensive care for a week, she called me names, said that I'm stupid, etc.
I gave birth at 32 weeks because of stress at work and I almost died.
Our company was sold and new CEO fired her in front of me, saying exactly the same "you're stupid". I'll remember her face expression all my life.

I have one and it was instant.

a kid rode past us while we were stood at the bus stop and tried to hit the back of DP’s head as he rode past. But as he was one handed to do so, he was unbalanced and instead rode straight in to a bin and flipped his bike over.

then he begged me to call his mum to come and pick him up. i did call and told her exactly what her little shit rat did to end up on the floor.

Thank goodness you got away from that horrible situation! Good luck with everything in the future.

@icallitasplodge what did the little scrote's mummy do when she came to collect him?

We had a mortifying train one. Dh had booked us seats. Two twenty somethings were sitting in them. Dh politely but firmly made them move which they did but with low level huffing and puffing.

Twenty minutes later they return with the conductor! The young woman tearfully points out Dh as the man that was rude and unkind to them. Dh denies it. Then a man across the aisle said”I don’t know any of them but Dh was very polite”. An elderly lady said the same. Conductor and the snowflakes scuttled off.

One from the mists of time. I was 8-9 and had been out on my bike and playing with friends. When I got back to my bike the tyres had been let down and the little snot who'd done it was standing there smirking at me. Instead of going home I started following him, with him protesting all the way. By the time we got to his house he was in tears. I told his parents what he'd done and they told him to pump the tyres up but he refused and ran indoors, so his dad did it. Then I went home feeling quite satisfied. No idea who the kid was and never saw him again.

To be fair to her she apologised and said he’d been in trouble for that before and at least now he had learned his lesson and he would have to ride back himself.

a few people came over to see if he was ok (he was typically howling and crying “please don’t tell my mum what I did” etc, making a huge show of it) and I just said to them, he’s on the floor as he tried to punch my partner in the head and fell off in the process. The sympathy disappeared pretty quickly.

then we got on the bus. He had a friend with him who was cracking up laughing at his mate and had no sense of urgency, so I’m sure all worked out.

How lovely when the karma doesn't just mean that the nasty ones get a taste of their own medicine, but their victims get a happier, better life too, @RocketDog101!

Dh and me had just found our seats on a flight home from a holiday when another couple told us in a rude and challenging manner that we had taken their seats. They called the Flight Attendant and she said to them ' You are quite right, these are your seats, I'm going to have to upgrade this other couple to first class' The look on their faces was priceless 1

Really?

Its a very common occurence it seems

Oh I really wish she was on MN and could see the affect that she had had on you, and that you are still channelling her confident attitude! What a legend.

Probably an own-goal, this one.

A few years ago, I was on my way back from a works meeting held in an office a few hour's away, so I had get a train there and back. I had reserved seats both going there and back as I knew the trains were always packed at rush hour.

On the return journey I had to change at Nottingham station. I boarded my train as I only had minutes to make my connection. As usual, it was rammed. I went to my reserved seat and there was a couple - so one of these was in my seat.

I politely asked her to move, and showed her my ticket with the seat reservation on it. She then smiled and said, well that's for the Notts - London train; this one's heading to Derby.

I was so embarrassed. In my haste I'd got on completely the wrong train and I barged past some standing people, luggage and paraphanelia to try and get out before the train pulled off. I got to the door right as the train gently started to glide out of the station ... I'm sure the people in that carriage were having a right good laugh. 😧

Aww noo! But you weren't a CF. You were polite!
Did you end up going to Derby?

Oh my word, must remember to properly check before posting lol we're not commiting fraud, they are 🤣 cough being investigated cough they used to boast about it and how they got away with it 👀 another story 😆

was it the Ship, out of interest?

Thank you :) we are very lucky and really was a chance in a million! I wish no harm to them but do feel for their children that they will likely be carbon copies of their parents (the older child would yell at my children to "shut up" if they were out in the garden...at 10:30am, to the extent that my children were too scared to play out unless next door were on holiday 😐 in contrast their kids rarely went outside "incase it messed up their newly landscaped garden" 🙄 we don't plan on moving until we downsize and they're unlikely to be be moved, so they have the pleasure of our lives more less on their doorstep for a while yet 😀

Killing with kindness 😉

This is officially called "Muphry's Law".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_law

The variation is Skitt's Law.

My karma tale happened many, many years ago (early eighties) when I had been driving for about two years and (because Bristol was terrible to park in, very crowded) had made a real point of learning how to park in spaces only just longer than the car; think nine spare inches at each end of my car, and to and fro many times to get in there.

One day I had to park outside the trade counter of a shop to buy what was obviously some blokey hardware (we were doing major renovation in the kitchen) and mentioned to the older bloke behind the counter, whom I knew pretty well by that time because the work was taking forever, that parking on the road outside had been even worse than usual. He grinned at me, and the much younger lad behind the counter, new to the job, who'd been fetching my stuff and seemed to find it demeaning to be serving a woman, made remarks about "women can never park and they always make such a fuss about it". I said nothing to him in reply, finished buying what I needed and took it out to the car. Then I went back in, winked to my friend and said to the lad, "I can't get out of the parking space: perhaps you could come and do it for me?" He was delighted to show off – I was told later that he'd just passed his test and had been boasting about it for days – and came out. He couldn't do it, of course, and after a couple of tries claimed that the two cars at either end of mine must have arrived since I parked. Older chap came out and informed him that no, they'd been there when I got there, and I smiled sweetly, thanked him for trying, got into the car, extracted it from the space in two because getting out is far easier than getting in, and drove off. Next time I went in he made no remarks about women drivers or about women not needing to shop at that counter.

Well done you! And great you had positive reactions and help from the other people in your carriage too. One would hope those women were taught a lesson for the future but I wonder... 🌹