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...

Oh god I love karma work things!

I was temping at a large offices as admin when I first moved to Scotland, 2 of the other admins for some reason behaved horrendously. Tried reporting me for failure to do my work (task hadn't been passed to me they deliberately tried to shuffle the system), said I was having interviews in work time (I wasn't I got chatting about volunteering options with a guy who was interested for his daughter). The list was continuous and it did amount to bullying. I left and was labelled a trouble maker by the manager they were continuously making up lies about.

4 years later my career was flying and I went back to the offices as a specialist consultant. One of them was asked to go get the refreshments and hadn't clocked me until walking in with a trayful of drinks trips covering herself head toe goes bright red and runs out of the room in tears with the host apologising to me. Definitely felt like karma 😂

Karma, would have been outing her and saying yes you do remember her and how you also remembered her bullying !

I’ve got one. Not that good, but here goes. On a flight home a good few years ago, a woman seemed to be in competition with me the whole way to be ‘first’. Sounds ridiculous, but she seemed to be trying to get ahead of me at every queue at the airport, be first off the plane etc. She looked daggers at me if I was first and smug if she was first. I wasn’t playing along but it both amused and bemused me the whole flight.

When we got off the plane, she was in a huge hurry to ‘win’. She was clearly thrilled her suitcase appeared first at baggage reclaim and gave me another smug look as she rushed past.

My suitcase appeared a short while later. I started to walk out of the airport… only to find Smuggy McSmuggerson looking furious as Customs went through her case. She looked even more mad when she saw me.

But then the bully would be happy she'd had such an effect on the poster.

Woman cut in line at the airport passport check. It was a country that uses facial recognition. She was wearing very heavy makeup and the machine wasn't computing. A guard came and insisted she take all the makeup off. She was NOT happy.

My karma story is -

a number of years ago, on a beautiful Saturday afternoon, I was having a nice hack on my horse. I was riding along a country lane, and coming towards me was 2 cars full of teenage boys, who were loud and full of themselves.

I immediately thought, “there could be trouble here”. But no, both cars stopped to let me pass. I smiled, thanked them and was going on my way.

The lads decided to make the “incident” more interesting. As I passed, they decided to scream out of the windows and slam down on the horn, and slam down on the accelerator in order to skid away, so my horse would react badly.

What actually happened was my horse jumped a bit and then carried on walking up the road. The car in front stalled, the car behind smashed into car one, resulting in both front and rear bumpers falling off, loads of glass on the road.

I smiled and waved to the lads and said “that was fun”.

Years ago, my husband and i had fallen out, petty argument, nothing big but we’d not spoken for a few days, in that time he’d had a new tattoo, i took great delight in telling him the writing was spelt incorrectly 😂 childish i know but it made me lol 😂

completely agree @diddl I keep chuckling about that

Depends what you mean by rude...there is still the Public Order Act of the 1980s in effect plus their own policy.

This is a snobby bugger one. Many moons ago was on a steering group setting up A Sure Start area, which was at the time focussing on areas of high deprivation. To try and improve outcomes for families with young children.

Wrap around care, nursery provision, literacy support and healthy eating in schools etc.

A man from a large children’s charity piped up that some parent wanted facilities providing services that children were cared for from when they wake up to tucking them in bed at night.

I was quite annoyed and said yes, i think they call them private schools, he went ten shades of red.

I used to take my car to a local Toyota garage, but the manager was a bit of an arrogant twat, and always used to talk down to me.
Once I had to get a new exhaust fitted - very expensive but covered by a 1 year warranty.
At about 11 months the tailpipe fell off on the motorway, so I went back to get it replaced. I forgot to mention it was a warranty repair. He jacked the car up, inspected it, and was very insistent that the whole exhaust assembly needed replacing. I argued against, knowing it was relatively new, but he was very insistent, so I acquiesced. When I told him it was a warranty repair he nearly collapsed. A bit odd, but on the way out I realised all the Toyota logos had gone; they were no longer franchised, and would they have to foot the bill themselves.
An hour later he phoned me to ask if I had picked up the tailpipe so they could clean it up to refit it. Ha!

For those objecting to cigarette butts being thrown out of car windows.....
Years ago, when I smoked, I flicked my cigarette butt out of the window. But the wind caught it and it blew back in, catching my neck as it did so. I pulled over, but there was a lot of traffic and the road was too narrow to safely get out. Couldn't see where the butt had gone, somewhere behind me? I looked at the back seat, covered with paper sales literature, and figured I'd sit a while and the smell of burning would help me locate the butt before anything actually went up. And so I sat back in my seat, and that was when I found it. Burned a hole through my skirt, my tights and my knickers, leaving a bullseye mark on my bum. And I never ever smoked in the car again. Gave it up altogether soon after.

We live down a single track lane. Our neighbour at the other end of the lane has a farm gate onto her property. She has a big chain and padlock she loops around the gate to make it look locked but it isn't actually padlocked shut. I was driving down the lane and came across a builder unloading his truck over her wall - he obviously hadn't realised he could get in through the gate. He had to move his truck for me to get out and as I drove past him I wound the window down and said 'I think you can get in through the gate..' He rudely cut me off and said 'Ive got eyes, I can see it's locked'. I left him to his awkward unloading and happily made him move every time I had to go up or down our lane. I really hope he found out that the gate wasn't locked when my neighbour got back.

I thought Name Changed

How about fat. OP was trying to be polite!

Many years ago I was in a new graduate role. I was the only graduate in a small office and it was a toxic workplace. Admin staff and receptionist we all incredibly friendly and looked after me but the team I was working with seemed threatened by a new team member and were all hostile towards me. It was in the recession so I was glad to have a job and put up with it. one of the team members was about ten or twelve years older than me and really took against me. Now that I am a bit older I see her unkindness probably came from a place of deep unhappiness but it was real mean girl behaviour excluding me, planning lunches drinks etc and not inviting me asking me to do work without explaining what to do etc commenting on my appearance in a way that was intended to embarrass me. We worked with some external specialists who while they weren't colleagues in the same company we worked with quite frequently. One of these was a man she clearly had feelings for. She would always try to engineer it so that she was alone with him and worked on projects with him. He was kind and polite but it was clear he wasn't interested. He was a few years older than me and a few years younger than her. After about two years I had grown in confidence in my role and some new people had joined who I got on really well with. I worked on a long project with this guy and got on really well and eventually we began to date. One night we were out for a drink and as I came back from the loo I saw this work colleague had happened to come.into the bar and was chatting and laughing with him while he looked a bit uncomfortable. I walked back to the table and she nodded as if to say a brief hello before I walked on, not realising I was with him. The look on her face when I asked her to move so I could take my seat again was incredible karma 😁

This is a bit of a weird one: I suffered from recurrent miscarriages so sadly was quite used to getting out and about while having one.

I made myself head out to go into town to pick up a few groceries. Naturally I was walking incredibly slowly, practically hobbling. I live in a tourist hot spot and the pavements are narrow and crowded.

next thing I know this woman - maybe in her 30s-40s? - comes up behind me and hisses really nastily in my ear : “how about speeding up and not hogging the pavement?”

she sped off but while she was waiting at the lights I caught up with her and hissed back “I’m actually having a miscarriage but I’m so sorry I held you up momentarily”.

the look on her face was something to behold - she looked utterly traumatised and tried to apologise but I wouldn’t give her the satisfaction and walked across a busy road to get away from her. She followed me for a bit still trying to apologise but I kept waving her off.

it’s been years now but I still think of her and wonder if she learnt her lesson about being so nasty to strangers.

Mines not too dissimilar to some of the ones already posted about trains.
Got a train from London to Preston - I'd booked tickets and made reservations. We had already been travelling for quite a bit of the day too before arriving at London. For whatever reason, they decided to cancel the train me and ex at the time were booked onto (but tickets were valid for the train that was in the station and leaving shortly) and announced that all seat reservations were also cancelled - the train was heaving. We managed to get 2 seats together. There was a family of 4, the 2 kids were about 10 and 12, so not diddy and the mum was bemoaning about the cancellation of the seat reservations to those around her and making digs about how her and her family should sit together. I've no idea if we were actually sat in the seats that had originally been the ones she had reserved, but the entitlement was oozing out of her. I think they'd got 2 seats and the kids were sat on the floor in front of her clearly not overly bothered. She continued making sly digs, if she had asked (nicely) would we consider moving, we probably would have, but she much preferred a passive aggressive tactic. I even said to my ex I'd consider it if she actually just asked instead of bitching.
She had at some point approached the conductor who came to us and asked if we would move so the whole family could be seated - I said not a problem and he assured us he had 2 seats for us. We got our luggage and the woman and her husband sat in the seats we had just vacated and she had this gleeful and smug look on her face. We followed the conductor up the packed train and kept going - it was so full and thought we weren't actually going to get any seat. We then went into the First Class lounge where the conductor sat us and said we also able to have the complimentary food and drinks. I couldn't believe it. She'd made such a fuss and we definitely got the best end of the deal. It took every ounce of my being not to just walk back down the train with my complimentary glass of wine and toast an even more smug "cheers" at her.

@Wishlist99

Mine is a bit similar to yours- sorry you went through that.

My dad had just died of a long illness and I was in town making my way to the solicitors to sort out his estate/will etc. I was walking down a busy road in town clearly looking rather forlorn, and some stupid middle aged man said to me in a booming smarmy voice "oh come on, SMILE-it might never happen!"

I snapped at him in a very loud voice so others around me could hear "it has already happened and I dont want to smile- my dad just died". He went bright red and just stammered something I couldn't understand then slinked off, clearly embarrassed.

I hope it made him think about his stupid comment and that you never know what anyone is going through so think before you come out with twattish comments like that to strangers. I've noticed it's always older men saying 'smile!" to younger women- they never say it to other men either.

I have one. I used to work before and up to the Christmas period in a supermarket while I was at uni. One year they told us that some customers were placing beer crates under the trolley area and that we should always stand up and check there was nothing under the trolley even if they didn’t put the items on the belt for us to scan, otherwise they would be walking out with a few crates of free beer.

So I always let customers put the stuff on the belt, scan it and then before getting up to check I would ask them, “are you sure there is nothing else for me to put through the till?” The ones who tried it on would look a bit shifty and say no and then look all put out when I asked them to place the beer crates on the conveyor belt so I could scan them! There were quite a few people who did this and I was always so surprised how many people didn’t consider this stealing.

Love that!

A very similar thing happened to me.

Two days after my husband died, I went to my local supermarket to pick up a few items. It was very busy with long queues at the checkouts. When it was my turn cashier said 'cheer up love, it may never happen'! All I can remember is saying very loudly (I didn't mean to be loud, it just came out that way) 'my husband has just died so I'm sorry I'm not smiling' and promptly burst into tears. There were audible gasps from those around me and a supervisor came rushing over. Was taken to the staff room as I was obviously so upset, given coffee, etc.,
Duty Manager came over to apologise and to say all staff would be reminded not to make such comments.

Love this !🤣

A small but satisfying moment of karma.

Coming out of the bridleway with the dog onto the lane. As the bridleway meets the lane there is a field entrance. Coming out of the field entrance is the biggest combine harvester I’ve ever seen. Really having to negotiate the hedges. As I’m walking off down the lane, around a wide bend, speeding up towards me comes a lad in his hot little hatchback. I wave at him to slow down. He flicks me the finger and smirks and disappears round the bend. There follows the loudest most desperate squealing of brakes and tyres. I didn’t hear a crunch so I assume he managed to stop before he mashed himself into the front of several tonnes of combine. I bet he fairly shit himself though.

Priceless. But on a serious note, that sounds like a very frightening experience. So many women have to endure harassment of creepy men like that, it p#sses me off so greatly.