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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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inappropriateraspberry · 10/04/2024 08:53

@HussellRobbs there are lots of posts where they have just ended up looking g down k. The person because their life hasn't panned out the same as theirs. Many seem to be relishing I it too much and come across as quite bullying themselves with their opinions.

SinnerBoy · 10/04/2024 08:53

swayingpalmtree · Today 08:12

I will never understand why drivers dont respect horses on the road.

I know, they just don't seem to have any brains, or consideration. I once passed a couple of women riding, I was doing 10 mph on a motorbike and the bloody thing backfired. I pulled over a little way down and waited for them, so I could apologise.

SinnerBoy · 10/04/2024 08:54

Emotionalsupportviper · Today 08:32

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

Ahem! I refer you to the Old Testament Book of Job...

😀

ProudMNslapper · 10/04/2024 09:00

Second leg of a long haul flight. I’d booked the flights almost a year earlier in order to get the emergency exit seats but we boarded and found a family in our seats. Aggressive bloke refused to move saying that he’d booked these seats on a flight that he’d missed as the connecting flight was late. Cabin crew came along, tried to get the guy to move, no joy. Asked me if we’d sit elsewhere and I politely said only if there was an upgrade available (which there wasn’t). Guy is shouting his head off throughout. Eventually security came on and forced them off the plane, everyone cheered, cabin crew came along and gave us all a voucher for the inconvenience.

Wherearewe2001 · 10/04/2024 09:11

Emotionalsupportviper · 10/04/2024 07:43

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.

If this was the case, then surely the most obvious thing to do would be to say “excuse me please” or “so sorry, I’m in a rush” to the PP rather than stop and hiss nastiness in her ear? There is no circumstance where the woman’s response would have been a reasonable or polite one.

BillStickersWillBeProsocuted · 10/04/2024 09:15

HussellRobbs · 10/04/2024 08:49

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?

ItIsifISayItIs' example of "Karma" was that the other person had died!

If that counts I guess Karma is coming for us all!

Wishlist99 · 10/04/2024 09:23

@Emotionalsupportviper i see your point but this genuinely wasn’t someone stressed out and in a hurry, it was someone who’d just walked out of the local Pilates studio, very well attired, who looked me up and down with my unwashed hair and shabby clothes and whose voice was absolutely dripping with venom but also had a smirk on her face; hard to convey in writing.

GeorgesMarvelousCalpol · 10/04/2024 09:24

ButternutSoup · 10/04/2024 08:11

This is not very nice.

What are you taking about?? Nacho cheese is delicious 😋 🧀

sueelleker · 10/04/2024 09:30

jmh740 · 10/04/2024 00:16

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!

Good job too- no violent bullies should be policemen; and I don't suppose he'd changed.

Cherrysoup · 10/04/2024 09:51

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!

Pissing myself at the idea of Enormo-cob, had one of those myself. You should write, I was laughing out loud at this story!

ElsieMc · 10/04/2024 10:06

My dd became pregnant at 15. A super snooty neighbour actually said to me "Do you even know who the father is..." in a headmistressy way in front of a number of other people. I had secretly harboured suspicions regarding her family because I was aware of the rumours that her husband was gay. They separated shortly afterwards for undisclosed reasons and of course I didn't ask her.

Stickyricepudding · 10/04/2024 10:28

SinnerBoy · 10/04/2024 08:54

Emotionalsupportviper · Today 08:32

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

Ahem! I refer you to the Old Testament Book of Job...

😀

@SinnerBoy The Old Testament, now you're talking. The Old Testament does revenge and retribution very well, none of this wishy washy love thy neighbour turn the other cheek business.

RhubarbAndFlustered · 10/04/2024 10:39

On a hot summers day DH and I were driving and ended up behind a Dundas truck. For those who don't know, it's a company who collects up dead livestock and the condition of the bodies can vary from fresh to..... very, very much not. The stink from these trucks can be horrendous so we made sure to stay as far back as possible. An inpatient driver behind us forced his way in the gap dangerously and found that like us, he too couldn't get past the vehicle and his car ended up getting splashed over and over by the putrid fluids dribbling out of the Dundas truck. In motion he could have slowed and forced us to slow and stay back too. But there was a traffic jam and he ended up right up behind the truck and we didn't reverse back to give him reversing room.

Raspberrysoup · 10/04/2024 10:47

Years ago I was house hunting and went to a viewing. I turned up a couple of minutes early and knocked on the door. An unfriendly, snooty woman answered and immediately started to rant about the fact that the estate agent should have been there and said she'd have to show me around herself. Five minutes later the young estate agent (about 21 years old) turned up and apologised profusely and said that the people at his previous viewing had been very late. I didn't mind at all as it clearly wasn't his fault but she started ranting at him about how useless him and his company was and I noticed that throughout the viewing he was shaking.

We ended up buying the house but she was highly unpleasant throughout the process and things were delayed slightly as we were having issues with our lender being extra stringent due to us both being self employed. I contacted her to apologise for the delay and I said "you know how it is with all the paperwork needed for getting a mortgage these days" and she replied with a very patronising "I wouldn't know - we've never had a mortgage".

We were also buying some furniture from them and she hounded me to transfer the money the instant we'd agreed it saying she had to have the money immediately.

Then on the day we moved in we found the house was filthy and she'd left cupboards full of dirty bedding and both sheds full of old junk like broken plant pots, tins of old paint, rusty tools, ancient lawnmowers and cracked panes of glass. I emailed her very politely asking if they'd like to come and remove it but she ignored my messages and we ended up having to pay for two skips and spent days cleaning.

She had insisted that any post that arrived for them should be dropped at the local pub where her son would collect it and forward it to her as she refused to give me any forwarding address.

Within a few days of moving in bailiffs started turning up who were generally large, intimidating and unpleasant (until I showed them ID to prove I wasn't her) and as we had young children at the time (who would always follow me to the door) it was pretty scary. I had to tell the bailiffs I didn't have any forwarding address for them as it turned out they'd owned a business and left a lot of big debts.

I spoke to a couple of neighbours who confirmed that she was a very unpleasant individual who none of them had kept in touch with so couldn't help with a forwarding address,

A few months later I was talking to someone in a pub who knew the previous owners and was still vaguely in touch with the nasty woman's husband. He let slip enough information about where they'd moved to (and what their new business venture was) that with some determined googling I turned up their new address.

From then on, every time a bailiff turned up I was able to very helpfully hand over comprehensive details of their new home, business address and phone number in another part of the country. Also I was no longer able to take their post to the local pub as unfortunately it all fell in the fire.......

BubblesMacgee · 10/04/2024 10:49

Second trimester of pregnancy, commuting the short hop into my London office with a rather large and noticeable bump. Train before ours cancels and when we get on the carriages are rammed - I begin to feel a bit faint and ask (politely) if I can have someones seat or at least change places to lean against the side of the train. Everyone ignores me (and yes some are female). Train slams on the brakes, me and my bump end up sprawled across the lap of one of the gentlemen who would not move (he was horrified) and a lot of the other people around us who were holding cups of hot coffee end up wearing them - talking ruined suits and shirts and some screams from the scalding. Couldn't stop laughing which didn't improve things, guard came through to check on everyone, took in the situation and moved me through to first class with a nice cold bottle of water. Thank you Mr Guard, and thank you karma.

ConsistentlyElectrifiedElves · 10/04/2024 11:13

So many karma police stories of people being pulled over after driving like an idiot.

As I saw on a policy twitter post once "We can't be everywhere, but we could be anywhere"!

IsleOfPenguinBollards · 10/04/2024 11:19

When I was at secondary school, there was an older girl who enjoyed making unprovoked bitchy comments to people (often about their appearance) and she’d also shout random insults. I was always scared to walk past her and her mates.

One day, I was walking from one school building to another between lessons when I saw (and heard) Gobby leaning out of a classroom window, yelling at someone. My heart sank as I couldn’t avoid passing that window. Then in an instant, the shouting was cut off mid-word as the sash window fell hard onto Gobby’s neck, pinning her to the window sill. Her mates had to free her. She wasn’t badly injured, but complained bitterly that her neck really hurt.

I know it’s unkind, but 25 years on, the memory of Gobby getting the guillotine still makes me laugh out loud!

CameltoeParkerBowles · 10/04/2024 11:22

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.

This one is fab! 😄

Stickyricepudding · 10/04/2024 11:25

IsleOfPenguinBollards · 10/04/2024 11:19

When I was at secondary school, there was an older girl who enjoyed making unprovoked bitchy comments to people (often about their appearance) and she’d also shout random insults. I was always scared to walk past her and her mates.

One day, I was walking from one school building to another between lessons when I saw (and heard) Gobby leaning out of a classroom window, yelling at someone. My heart sank as I couldn’t avoid passing that window. Then in an instant, the shouting was cut off mid-word as the sash window fell hard onto Gobby’s neck, pinning her to the window sill. Her mates had to free her. She wasn’t badly injured, but complained bitterly that her neck really hurt.

I know it’s unkind, but 25 years on, the memory of Gobby getting the guillotine still makes me laugh out loud!

@IsleOfPenguinBollards this is fantastic! What happened to Gobby afterwards? Did her parents try to claim any compensation or anything stupid like that? Serves the daft cow right!

WearyAuldWumman · 10/04/2024 11:34

BrightLightTonight · 09/04/2024 19:50

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”.

Some years ago, we had two cars racing round our street - then a 30 mph speed limit.

They were making a helluva racket and did several circuits.

One car stopped so that the young men within could speak to a couple of girls who were passing. The second car didn't.

Cue wails from the driver of the second car: "Why did you have to stop? Why did you have to stop? It's ma faither's car!"

IsleOfPenguinBollards · 10/04/2024 11:37

Stickyricepudding · 10/04/2024 11:25

@IsleOfPenguinBollards this is fantastic! What happened to Gobby afterwards? Did her parents try to claim any compensation or anything stupid like that? Serves the daft cow right!

IIRC, Gobby’s parents found her difficult to manage and I don’t think they sued the school! I do remember having a lesson in that classroom soon afterwards and the teacher joking with the class about her being “semi-guillotined”.

Gobby is in her 40s now and I bumped into her a couple of years ago through work. She seems to have calmed down a lot and conveniently forgotten much of her teenage behaviour.

ifyouthinkimrexy · 10/04/2024 11:39

When I was learning to drive I was tailgated by a guy in a white van. My driving instructor was obsessive about me keeping pace with the road and I'd been having lessons for quite a long time so it wasn't like I was crawling along, I was doing the speed limit (60) but he didn't like it, probably because I was a learner and he had to know better.

He overtook me (dangerously) and whizzed off in this impatience.

Not much further up the road we encountered him again. He'd smashed into the back of a driver waiting at traffic lights (as far as I could tell no one was hurt, but I still remember his angry little face.)

okthenwhat · 10/04/2024 11:51

Not really CF karma but just glad how I handled someone who was chancing their arm at being a CF.

I used to work abroad where we lived on a compound in the same accomodation block and carpool with colleagues to work, using pool cars and work paid for the petrol (so no cost at all to any of us and no-one going out of their way to pick each other up). I was with my colleague who wouldn't find it hard to be diagnosed as a narcissist.
My colleague (who was driving) said, shall we stop for coffee on the way?
I said ok, if you want.
He stops, we go in, he says, are you getting coffee too?
I said no thanks.
He ordered a coffee then looked expectantly at me and asked me if I was going to pay.
I declined. He looked pissed off and paid for his crappy, overpriced, burnt coffee.

The fucking cheek of him to suggest we stop and that I pay when I wasn't getting a coffee myself then have the temerity to be annoyed with me.

ConsistentlyElectrifiedElves · 10/04/2024 11:56

ANiceBigCupOfTea · 08/04/2024 10:44

I genuinely think they wouldn't dare be so rude if the 'receptionist was male.

We had a salesman come in to the office one day and I (the business owner) happened to be in reception. He came in, all bolshy and slimy, asking to speak with one of the directors about the fantastic deal he could offer us on our photocopiers.

My receptionist looked at me and I smiled ever so sweetly and said "I'm sorry - none of them are in today, but I know we're happy with our current provider, thank you."

I bet I wouldn't have got away with that if I was male either!

WearyAuldWumman · 10/04/2024 11:57

I've struggled with my weight for years. Up and down like a yo-yo. (In a fat phase now, but weight is heading down again.)

During one of my fat phases, I joined a swim exercise class for women. The age range would have been 40s to 70s.

The class took place in the 'small pool' at the local centre. It's not as deep as the main pool and is used for babies, beginners, etc.

One day, two young women joined the class. They came in with their hair piled on top of their heads - very nicely done - and elaborate make-up.

There were smirks and a few comments when they saw the rest of us.

I was standing in the pool, in position ready for the class to start. Instead of coming down the steps, they decided to slide in close to where I was standing.

I'm 5ft 9. I was not in the shallow end of the small pool. They were not 5ft 9. They slid right under. Make-up ruined.

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