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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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BirthdayRainbow · 10/04/2024 07:42

Because she had to take the poster's urine bottle @candgen625

Emotionalsupportviper · 10/04/2024 07:43

Wishlist99 · 09/04/2024 21:43

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.

What would your reaction have been if she had burst into tears and said "I've just had a message that my son has been ru over and I'm trying to get to him asap?"

None of us know what is happening in someone else's life.

I'm so sorry for your loss of your pregnancies, but for all you knew she may have been going through something just as traumatic.

Jeezitneverends · 10/04/2024 07:46

ARichtGoodDram · 08/04/2024 06:44

My ex boasted to his newish girlfriend of 5/6 months how his exes with children didn’t know he had a new job or his new salary. He also told her he’d hidden savings in two accounts that he hadn’t declared in his ongoing divorce.

She pretended to get excited with him, worked out where he kept his payslips and bank statements, took photos and sent them to his ex wife and ex girlfriend along with details of his job (start date, job title, location etc).

After a review his CM payments almost doubled! He also had to renegotiate part of his financial settlement due to his “forgotten” accounts.

Didn't affect me financially as our two are uni age now, but his social media meltdowns about the situation have been absolutely hilarious.

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Absolutely love this-pure women supporting women moment!

candgen625 · 10/04/2024 07:46

BirthdayRainbow · 10/04/2024 07:42

Because she had to take the poster's urine bottle @candgen625

Again though if that's part of her job I'm sure she didn't give it a second thought

Obviously pretending you didn't remember her may have stung abit

Newestname002 · 10/04/2024 07:53

Pleasehelpmedress · 10/04/2024 07:33

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.

He had to swim out a window back to shore to ask TG to tow his car out.

What a fool he was - and brilliant Tractor Guy. At least one person learned by someone..🌹

Emotionalsupportviper · 10/04/2024 07:58

WiddlinDiddlin · 10/04/2024 02:20

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!

I find horses very scary, but have fallen in love with the10 watt bulb-brained, Landrover-licking Enormo-Cob.

He sounds lovely!

(Oh - nice story, too - thank you)

pootlin · 10/04/2024 07:58

ZombiesAreClammyDodgers · 08/04/2024 17:06

Kev was bang out of order. The car was just... being driven.

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How was Kev out of order? The car driver threw a hot cigarette butt into his helmet!

HussellRobbs · 10/04/2024 08:04

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

It’s the little things 😊

ButternutSoup · 10/04/2024 08:11

AwBlessm · 09/04/2024 23:30

Nacho Cheese

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This is not very nice.

swayingpalmtree · 10/04/2024 08:12

I will never understand why drivers dont respect horses on the road. Its so fecking stupid- do they relish the idea of an out of control horse and their car being kicked into oblivion by it?

I experience horses near my house regularly as we live right by stables in a semi rural area. I really enjoy seeing them- just the sight of them makes me feel calm and relaxed (I love animals). I always slow right down and the riders are always very grateful, always giving the thank you wave. It's literally 30 seconds out of my day just to make life easier for everyone. I drive a BMW btw, so not all of us are complete wankers - just thought I'd mention that 😂

ZombiesAreClammyDodgers · 10/04/2024 08:17

pootlin · 10/04/2024 07:58

How was Kev out of order? The car driver threw a hot cigarette butt into his helmet!

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Oh- I read that as the car spewing exhaust in his face!?

HussellRobbs · 10/04/2024 08:21

ZombiesAreClammyDodgers · 10/04/2024 08:17

Oh- I read that as the car spewing exhaust in his face!?

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Er, no, hence the ‘He knocked on the window and threw the butt into the car.’

Conniebygaslight · 10/04/2024 08:24

one girl in high school who was a nasty piece of work and really thought she was something. The sort who would get her minions to turn against you if she just wanted entertainment. When I was in my early 20s I’d got a really good job, my own home and company car. I’d been to a meeting so was suited and booted and decided to grab some fish & chips on the way home. I called into the precinct outside the window of the fish & chip-shop in my brand new car. Went inside and the woman in the hair net slicing kebab meat was the girl from school. We looked at each other, she looked me up & down, looked at the car outside and I just stared at her. That’s the one and only time in my life I’ve ever looked down on anyone.
No words needed and I’ve never forgotten that moment 30 years on.

HussellRobbs · 10/04/2024 08:29

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.

Good for her 😊

Emotionalsupportviper · 10/04/2024 08:32

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.

I also have a deep faith - but I don't believe that God causes bad things to happen to "test" us.

I believe that things happen in the world - some good, some very bad, some natural, some circumstantial, some man-made - and that we cope with them because we must.

I also do believe that if we open ourselves to God, then we will receive support and strength that we could never achieve on our own, and will be guided in the best course of action to take.

Bad things are neither a punishment nor a test IMO, they just are things that happen - but they can be an opportunity to learn more about ourselves, and to develop a deeper relationship with God.

CinnamonJellyBeans · 10/04/2024 08:34

Great idea for a thread OP, (the shared bingo win is my fave) but some of these stories are just horrible and don't make me smile or laugh at all, with their biblical scale of "justice".

HussellRobbs · 10/04/2024 08:35

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.

Amazing 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

inappropriateraspberry · 10/04/2024 08:47

CinnamonJellyBeans · 10/04/2024 08:34

Great idea for a thread OP, (the shared bingo win is my fave) but some of these stories are just horrible and don't make me smile or laugh at all, with their biblical scale of "justice".

Agree. A lot of these are very petty or bitchy, and they posters come across as bad as the person they believe got 'karma.'

HussellRobbs · 10/04/2024 08:47

Notjustabrunette · 08/04/2024 22:10

Parked my car in a car park, come back to find that I couldn’t open my car doors as both cars either side had parked too close. Their tires were either touching or over the lines. I had to climb in via the boot, and then very carefully pull out of the tight spot. As I was getting my kids in the car, a ticket inspector came round and wrote them both tickets for not being within their space. In fact in think it was me scrambling about in the boot that alerted him to what was going on.

Love this 🥰

BillStickersWillBeProsocuted · 10/04/2024 08:48

ButternutSoup · 10/04/2024 08:11

This is not very nice.

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I think Nacho Cheese is delicious! 😁

To be fair I think AwBlessm was mocking the dozen or so posters who answered pages later, without bothering to scroll 2 posts to see if it had already been answered, rather than the poster who asked an innocent question.

HussellRobbs · 10/04/2024 08:49

inappropriateraspberry · 10/04/2024 08:47

Agree. A lot of these are very petty or bitchy, and they posters come across as bad as the person they believe got 'karma.'

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I don’t think any are petty or bitchy. It’s human nature to feel schadenfreude for people who wrong you.

Can you give examples of which one are petty or bitchy?

TheInfusionist · 10/04/2024 08:50

RhubarbAndFlustered · 10/04/2024 03:30

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 am completely horrified at posts suggesting that cancer, autism, abusive relationships etc are karma for being a bad person. Some of these posts are sick. Not in the spirit of this cheerful lthread at all.

HussellRobbs · 10/04/2024 08:50

ButternutSoup · 10/04/2024 08:11

This is not very nice.

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It’s not a jibe at the person asking, it’s funny because about 10 people have now explained what NC means 🤣

ButternutSoup · 10/04/2024 08:51

BillStickersWillBeProsocuted · 10/04/2024 08:48

I think Nacho Cheese is delicious! 😁

To be fair I think AwBlessm was mocking the dozen or so posters who answered pages later, without bothering to scroll 2 posts to see if it had already been answered, rather than the poster who asked an innocent question.

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Ah ok - I'm sorry to the PP, I misread the tone as it's text only, and I gave it the most uncharitable interpretation! I see now that it is actually quite funny.

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