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...

I disagree. It was a perfect comeback - yes, criminal damage to a piece of metal, but in response to physical sexual assault. (And not the first time it'd happened, I'd had men grab my boobs just walking along a street etc, part of the reason I saw red).

The men were trapped in their little car in broad daylight in a dense traffic jam, witnesses galore, all obviously watching the drama. The men didn't even exit the car and shout back at me, they just sat there looking shocked. They couldn't have reported me as I'd have reported the sexual assault in response. I had mitigating circumstances; they didn't.

Nacho Cheese

I probably shouldn’t have dragged the kids into it ! They have surely had a miserable childhood at his hands …,

Great thread @Bethany83.

Shame some posters don't understand what karma is and it def isn't having ASD in the family. That's a lesson in humility and empathy, it's not karma at all. Nor is keying a vehicle or feeling superior to others - I went to uni they work in a shop etc.

Best threads for me are the animal ones - the sheep, bull and horse are all heroes in my book - salatory lessons for impatient drivers!!!

Mine's a work one... Doing great and manager just turns on me. No reason, nothing. Wants me disciplined for under performance - I am top rated performance and recognised as talent, so everyone who knows is taken aback. My appeal goes via HR. In the process I was offered 6m pay if I decided to leave. Whilst mulling it over I go to buy a mobile phone abd meet my future husband in the phone shop. I decide to stay, why should I leave a job I love?

After there is no case to answer, my exec director decides I must have had a part to play so no pay rise and I suck it up. My managers PA then goes to HR to complain about him saying he brings her out in hives. HR director takes up an office behind where I sit, next to my bosses office. 6 weeks later he calls me in tells me I am doing nothing wrong - I'll always be grateful to that man, he was a top bloke when I was still vulnerable to my managers bullying ways. Two weeks later at a team meeting my manager announces he is being made redundant as the company is merging 2 teams.

Our manager leaves that day and after around 2 years when the company has more than doubled in size and needs a separate corporate manager again, I get what was his job.

5 years later, I'm with a different company and out of the blue am invited to help a different sector look at reporting metrics - apparently a civil servant recommended me to the sector. I know he works in the sector but am not sure if he'll be there. I sit at a table I'd been asked to join to find 4 of the 6 people work in the same company as him. It transpirers he is there, but they're not with him cos they don't like him. No surprise there.

The part that must have pd him off more is that technically he is excellent, I had a lot of time for him professionally, yet all the way through this meeting the chair keeps directing Qs to me 🤦‍♀️

Wow, what a prize arsehole, very glad you escaped.

Ex was a violent bully, me and ds were sat in the car terrified while he kicked the car and screamed and shouted at me. I finally stood up to himi told him if he paid for the damage to the car I wouldn't call the police. He refused so I did call the police, he wasn't charged but was given a caution. 5 years later he had moved to New Zealand and married the woman he cheated on me with. He applied to join the police but was refused due to the caution he said it was all my fault!

Had a truly vile bullying boss at work, frequently had me and (older, wiser ) colleagues in tears with her antics and accusations. Complaining to higher management was pointless (She’d slept with a large proportion of them over the years😳) Anyway, I’d been off ill with a horrible chest infection and she took great pleasure in telling me I’d get a written warning for exceeding my absence quota…. But the lovely other dept manger refused to do it, as she said I still looked unwell and was taking a second lot of antibiotics so I must be genuinely ill.
Omg, that was the catalyst for some serious victimisation by this bitch of a boss - I walked out 2 weeks later, and tried to forget it all.

When I heard she’d died, I danced a jig in the street and thanked the God of Karma… took its time, but it got her in the end!
Whenever I think of that utterly horrible woman, I have a wry smile and think
“ I’m still standing… and you’re dead”

This is fairly recently and I have debated bringing it up. I was sitting outside the hospital and a slightly older-looking man told me to smile with the good ole “It may never happen”… comment. I asked him what gave him the right to tell me what to do with my face and he said, “You’re young, you’re pretty, you’re healthy, you have nothing to be worried about! Smile - I think you owe it to yourself and everyone else around you.” I said “Firstly, I’m not younger than you. I’m 52 years old. Secondly, Look around you….We’re outside a fucking hospital. Pretty stupid to assume anything about anyone’s health. Right now I’m trying to work out how to tell my husband and three kids that I need a heart transplant. Do you think if I smile it’s going to make me feel better? How dare you tell me that I owe you or anyone else any kind of facial expression!” He shuffled off to a different bench pretty damn quick…

Err pretty sure "overfed" wasn't being polite!

I love endings like this! 🍷

Horsey one...

Hacking a friends Enormo-Cob (17hh of benign stupid) round the lanes, enjoying the glorious views of englands green and pleasant land etc etc...

Easy to do from 9billion miles up on his back, I had an elevated view of the road too, able to see what was coming over the hedges as the road curved up and around up the hill.

So when I spot a huge agricultural convoy coming, enormous clanking rattly stuff, I decide to turn and park Enormo-Cob in the last sensible gateway we've passed. I can be sure its not where the rattling clanking agri-beast is going as we've passed a big double-wide gate way, open into a huge field about a mile back. It is also the only layby/gateway/passing place between us and the machine trundling our way.

So having about-turned and marching back to safety, a flashy little sporty thing hoons up and I do the wavy arm 'slow down, I have information to impart' hand signal... she revs up, window down 'YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO, JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE ON A HORSE YOU SNOTTY BITCH'...

OK then. I'm not willing to hang about because Enormo-Cob only has two brain cells to rub together (and I've already blown one of them by turning around mid hack!!) If I want us to survive the forthcoming, I don't need to be skittering about in the middle of the lane arguing with a twat.

We safely park ourselves in a gateway and we are then joined by the next car we met who did listen and now our lovely gateway halfway down the hill is full.

A minute or two later, back comes Mrs Sporty Number. Backwards....She's got to reverse over a mile, there is no room for her. Shes not overly good at reversing, we got to watch quite a lot of it (Enormo-Cob soothing himself by licking the bonnet of the Landrover sharing our hiding spot, he liked those) whilst we waited for the machinery of doooooooom to pass.

In the pub later it turned out she really wasn't very bright at all, as she then reversed into the (muddy!) field the machinery was turning into (despite much indicating, gesticulating and so on from driver)... and got stuck there for hours!

We live in rural Devon. Lots of single track country roads lined with deep narrow ditches. Lots of tourists who cannot grasp the concept that whichever side is closed to their passing point is the car that reverses to said passing point.

We driving back from a day trip, the road was quiet, we passed a passing point and traveled around half a mile or so down the road. It was pretty bendy so there were no more passing points, until we came down the hill and round the bend and saw a huge farm gate, where the road is wide enough for two cars to pass.

There was a really nice car driving past said gates. They were clearly tourists. They didn't wait for us at the gates so we could pass each other. We ended up nose to nose. DH didn't reverse because our previous passing point was half a mile, up a steep hill and round a few bends. Theirs was 100metres away, flat and in a straight line. Rather than reverse, as we expected them to, the driver proceeded to edge up a grass verge to get past DH. Only to drive straight over the verge, into a ditch and get stuck.

His wife got out and started shouting abuse at us for refusing to reverse and "forcing" them into a ditch. I took great pleasure in politely explaining that they were the only ones who could reverse safely, and then pointed out that it isn't the wisest idea to piss off the only people who can help them out of the ditch when there's no signal and no guarantee anyone else will come down the road today. I told her that if she carries on, I will ask DH to drive home and leave them to fix their own mess.

Her poor husband told her to please shut up for once, apologised profusely and begged us not to leave them in the ditch. We helped them get their car out, he thanked us and they both got in the car. The second they closed the car doors they started arguing 😅
We wouldn't have left them in the ditch but my God it was tempting.

Not CF getting karma but a bit darker than just someone cheeky getting it.

My dad was in his late 30's and was having an affair with a 21 year old at work. My mum was employed there too. Everyone at work knew and Mum was humiliated when it came out. She went to the girl's parents and it exploded. They were furious at their daughter. My Dad ended up divorced and the girl who had loudly taunted my mum on shift with her giggling group of friends (before mummy and daddy found out and disowned her) dumped him for another coworker and dad's following relationships all ended up with him being cheated on and one woman even stripped his house of all the nice pieces of furniture (that he owned) and moved in with her affair partner. It took about 15 years of terrible relationships for him to land a nice woman.
Then at the end she couldn't handle his cancer and would refuse carers access and wouldn't care for him either until she wanted to, leaving him alone in a conservatory while she sat in the living room and wouldn't even give him a tv he could watch. A tv he owned in a house he helped pay for. The tv was there but behind him and she wouldn't move the tv so he could see it. He couldn't move out of his bed and would lay wet and hungry quite a lot. DSis and I had to have social services step in and move him to hospice. He was paid by karma a thousand times over for what he did to mum. Guess he shouldn't have slapped her around either.

I had a “best friend” when I was in my early twenties who would put me down and have little digs at me all the time, I excused her behaviour thinking she was just insecure.
She would repeat nasty gossip about me (that I later found out wasn’t true) and say things like “oh Gemma said you looked really chunky in that dress you wore on Saturday, I stuck up for you and told her you were on a diet and it’s just because you are short that makes you look fatter then you are”
or “Helen was asking why you wear such unfashionable clothes? I told her it’s not your fault your family is poor”
It was really mean girl stuff but she was clever and I was naive and didn’t see through her.

I met a man and fell head over heels and he was very very good looking. My frenemy would constantly say things like “I wonder why he’s with you? He must be using you” and act all faux concerned. She then heavily implied he was with me because he fancied her.
She started hinting that he was flirting with her and looking over at her when I wasn’t looking in their direction, I’d soon had enough and stopped spending time with her.

One night I was out with another group of girls and my boyfriend called me saying this girl had turned up at his house a bit drunk supposedly looking for me.
I went round to his flat with my other friends and she claimed she had genuinely wanted to see me so we let her stay for a couple of drinks. I couldn’t be bothered with the argument of telling her to leave and I was a bit worried about what had been going on and wanted to see how she behaved with my boyfriend.

She didn’t say much for a long time whilst everyone else was laughing and talking but then she suddenly stood up and lurched towards a bin in the living room corner and started violently being sick, every time she retched she let out an enormous fart!
The farts absolutely stank and my boyfriend had to open all the windows and asked her if she’d been eating cat food 😂.

She was absolutely mortified because we couldn’t help but giggle, she was letting out little wails of embarrassment between puking and flapping her hands at us to leave.

We called her a taxi and I didn’t see her for a long time then unfortunately I ended up working with her when she joined the same company.
She tried the same tricks but then I got promoted directly above her, as she’d been consistently lazy and bitchy towards other staff when I was given the horrible task of making people redundant she was first on the list. She asked for a reference so I gave her a basic but honest one and when asked if I’d employ her again I said no.

I haven’t seen her for a long time but I’m sure she’s happy about that 😂.

I was approaching a checkout with a single item in one hand and the £2 coin (exact money needed) in the other. A customer with a full trolley ran the last few steps to get in front of me. I was a bit taken aback and joined the queue behind her, but the person at the next belt told me to go in front of him. As I was leaving I heard a manager (or a colleague?) being called to the till I had originally gone to as the person in front of the pusher in had an issue with a price. It may have been a quick resolution, but usually someone would have to go and check the shelves leaving the queue twiddling their thumbs for a bit…

At my last job, my section got a new line manager who was an absolute horror. She made my last 6 months am absolute nightmare and in the end I left. I later heard that one of her minions was sacked for screaming at a senior manager.

The nasty line manager was then sacked and all her Minnions quit before they too were sacked. She then went to work for a competitor and tried to pull the same stunt. They then didn't extend her probationary period and now she can't get a job in our sector. It's a very small and niche sector and everyone knows each other so people naturally talk......

Even if it was, which obviously it wasn't, why did he think you'd care?!

You're a better woman than me.

I wouldn't have kept their mail - I'd have stuck it back in the box with "No longer at this address" written in large letters on the front

A simple but sweet one. When I was at sixth form college, I was bullied really badly by a couple of girls. They made my life hell. About 10 years later I was on a local bar visiting my parents at Christmas. I felt a tap on my shoulder. When I turned around it was one of the girls. She actually apologised. She went on to detail how her life had been a bit of a flop. Nothing major, but she seemed unhappy. I am not sure if this was to make me feel sorry for her. I did think karma, especially as I had just come back of a winter sun holiday and was looking bronzed and relaxed.

These are all great! My contribution...

I used to live on a small beach in Wales which had a lot of holiday makers but no slipway. There was this old local guy with an old tractor that used to charge a small amount (can't remember, say £10) to tow boats on trailers into the sea for tourists.

One guy turned up in a mega fancy land rover (with the high exhaust pipe for going through water) and said he'd tow his own boat. Tractor guy (TG) said it's dodgy and muddy but was scoffed at. Land rover guy (LRG)drove in and promptly got stuck. He had to swim out a window back to shore to ask TG to tow his car out. TG said okay, it'll be £20, LRG said but it was just a tenner a few minutes ago.
TG: okay £50 now
LRG: but....
TG: okay £75 now
LRG: but that's not fair...
TG: £100 now
It was hilarious, can't remember how much it went up to but LRG really took a long time to realise he had no bargaining position meanwhile his car was just getting wetter and wetter.

I don't know if this is karma or not. Be interested to know.

I was in care as a child and one set of foster parents were vile. Neglectful and abusive. After decades finally got the man in front of a judge for SA me. He got years. Died while in prison.

Meanwhile I was awarded compensation and the foster mother, also abusive in different ways, had to buy her husband's half of the house so it wasn't sold for my compensation. I never got a penny as the bankruptcy people screwed me over but I suspect she had to use every penny she had to buy the half of the house.

Don't get the karma here'. Not saying she wasn't a bully as a child but how is working at a drs karma

I think the karma was her having to hold the ops nice warm wee pot.

She’s not omnipotent, she can’t make anyone suffer such difficulties.

I’m religious and I do think God tests you with that which you fear the most, but he doesn’t punish you with those tests, they make you stronger.

e.g. The grandma upthread who ridiculed others’ kids because she thought her grand children would the world on fire (but didn’t).

Or the pp who was called a ‘slag’ by a 17yo who then shortly turned out to have 3 children in 3 years.

Of course this doesn’t mean that the children deserved these things, just that the adults saying those awful things should understand the reality of what they’re saying.