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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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SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 10/04/2024 12:06

Emotionalsupportviper · 10/04/2024 07:58

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)

Yes - me too, @Emotionalsupportviper!

AwBlessm · 10/04/2024 12:24

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.

Yes, thank you! It was not intended to be mean to the poster with the original question (which was a perfectly reasonable question).

SinnerBoy · 10/04/2024 12:25

About five years ago, I was walking my dog along a shared foot - cycle path. A bloke cycled up and shot onto the road, as it was quite crowded. He whooshed past me too close for comfort and I saw that he was texting.

Seconds later, he crashed into a car, which was stopped on a red light, at a Pelican. His expensive look bike was really smashed up, as was his face - loads of blood from his nose and mouth. The back of the car was caved in badly.

The driver was out when I got there and I asked, "Are you all right?"

The cyclist spat, "No I'm not! Look what this wanker's done to me bike!"

I said, "I'm not talking to you, you're an idiot. He was stopped on red." I gave my number to the driver and later had a call from his insurance company and I gave them the story.

The cyclist was hopping mad, especially as some other witnesses were making rude comments, as they walked by.

TheaBrandt · 10/04/2024 13:01

Most of these are brilliant but agree the crowing over people working in shops etc I find abit jarring.

WhereYouLeftIt · 10/04/2024 13:05

Isthisexpected · 10/04/2024 01:45

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

I don't know, thinking about the two words - 'overfed' places responsibility for the fatness on the feeder (adult) not the fed (child), if you get my drift.

eyeslikebutterflies · 10/04/2024 13:13

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.

But she could have just said, politely, 'excuse me'. Rather than making a frankly horrible comment that was entirely unnecessary.

She chose to be unpleasant and so she deserved to be embarrassed by the OP.

Worriedaboutrapecourts · 10/04/2024 13:25

TheaBrandt · 10/04/2024 13:01

Most of these are brilliant but agree the crowing over people working in shops etc I find abit jarring.

My then husband was a puffed up twat with a bad attitude to lowly shop staff. One of his obsessions was whisky and he wanted to go on a tour at a distillery while we were on holiday. The woman serving in the distillery shop said we had just missed start of the current tour but the next one would be in a couple of hours. He snarled "I'm NOT waiting around for THAT!" and flung the door open and stormed out. I looked at her, meekly apologised and followed him. A good few years and one divorce (yay!) later up pops his ugly mug on the local Facebook page, working in the local distillery doing tours and lo and behold serving in the shop. It would be such a shame for the poor guy if he had to deal with arsehole customers who looked down on him.

This is the same man who thought all the people he saw on Facebook were his friends. There was a lovely woman who I had had dealings with in the past who kept popping up on the stuff he was looking at on FB. He was whining on about something one day and I said "Why don't you ask Jane?". He said "I can't do that! Jane's a FRIEND!" I did think it a bit odd that he felt he couldn't ask a friend a simple question, it wasn't even to actually do anything, but there you go. A good while after that we met her and I said "I don't know if you'll remember me ..." and she said "Oh yes, of course I do, but I don't know him". It was just perfect. I was torn between laughing my arse off and pitying him.

The last one is that he used to criticise me for the way I walked when it was icy or on slippy ground. He harped on about walking confidently and boldly and you wouldn't fall, I was ridiculous for being careful. Queue him starting to walk on bricks on a path edging rather than the path and the ice got the better of him and down he went. On his way down he put both forearms up in front of his chest and on landing he started rolling like a pound shop James Bond. What a FANNY 😆

nopuppiesallowed · 10/04/2024 13:31

Emotionalsupportviper · 10/04/2024 07:58

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)

Me, too. He sounds the only horse I'd want to be near!

WiddlinDiddlin · 10/04/2024 13:47

Thanks Enormo-Cob fans, he was lovely - chestnut and white, dim as a Toc-H lamp and his only real flaws were falling asleep at a walking pace (with the dreadful result that he'd fall over his own face), and later in life he took up the unusual hobby of sitting on car bonnets if they were too close to his bum.

Fortunately I only experienced the former from on-board once, and the latter was reported to me by his real Mum!
He retained his love of landrovers all his life, landrovers = bales of hay and sacks of feed.

BlueMoanday · 10/04/2024 13:49

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.

What if she was!? She didn't have to be a bitch - she could have just said "excuse me please I'm in a rush"

isitshe · 10/04/2024 13:53

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 on you @jmh740. Poetic justice served.
One fewer violent bully in any police force is a good thing.

LizHoney · 10/04/2024 14:05

Fromage · 05/04/2024 21:59

I had a 3work trip to New York. Originally it was 2 arseholes colleagues and not me, but our boss added me on, enraging the 2 arseholes colleagues.

They froze me out of all discussions, wouldn't tell me their travel plans (I only knew from the nice lady who booked such things, who kindly told me) and I ended up on different flights and in a different hotel. Arseholes.

They skived off most of the work and left it all to me, and on the last day (only time I saw them) I said to them at lunchtime that I expected they would be leaving soon to make sure they caught their (rather early) flight home.

Arsehole no1 said "Oh ffs, Fromage, I think we can manage to make our way back to JFK fgs!"

I smiled and said "Of course you can" and walked away with my dignity, as Arsehole 1 continued to bitch about me loudly to Arsehole 2, who did seem a bit embarrassed about it all.

Later I saw them in JFK, apparently having indeed missed their flight and desperately trying to get on something standby. Good.

I was not surprised at this at all.

Partly because I knew they'd not left enough time to get back to their hotel, and then to the airport.

But mostly because I knew their return flight was from Newark.

Amazing!

TheBestEverMouse · 10/04/2024 14:09

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!

I have a similar story. My abusive ex wanted to join the police and I reported his stalking and harassment after I broke up with him. He's now a security guard and blames me for blocking his chances. Nope. Your behaviour blocked your chance!

LunaNorth · 10/04/2024 14:13

I’d gone with a friend to see a show in a big Northern city. We were walking back to the car park at about 6pm when we heard loud shouting and bawling behind us.

It was a youngish guy, absolutely paralytic, probably on something as well, weaving his way down the road in some kind of fury. He overtook us, and was soon followed by a lovely young woman, all dressed up, who seemed to be trying to placate him, but he was having none of it.

As he stormed away from her, a lad with a big Deliveroo carrier thing on his back was just getting on his bike outside an Indian restaurant. Mr Shouty-Pissed-Up decided it would be a good idea to punch the Deliveroo backpack thing, which sent the poor lad spinning round - he nearly landed on his arse.

He continued to rant and threaten his girlfriend as we followed behind - I was concerned for her safety, so we watched closely. So closely, in fact, that I noticed when he dropped his car and house keys.

So we waited until he was out of sight, then I picked them up and put them in a bin.

CrushingOnRubies · 10/04/2024 14:15

Majentaplasticglasses · 10/04/2024 03:23

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.

This is a regular thing where live in the summer

One I remember was dad was towing a caravan down a country road. Met a tourist in a very nice brand new £££££ suv. Refused to reverse 20m. Dad was like I'm towing a caravan and my passing place is much further back. SUV refused to reverse barged past dad and knocked off his wing mirror on the granite wall on the process

isitshe · 10/04/2024 14:18

ButternutSoup · 10/04/2024 08:11

This is not very nice.

You're right, it's usually that weird synthetic-yellow processed stuff. Not nice at all.

Verv · 10/04/2024 14:40

I work in retail, luxury watches. It's another receptionist one i'm afraid!

Had a guy come in while I was covering reception because my colleagues had gone to lunch (we switched through the day as we're a small team and didn't have a receptionist) and he said he wanted a valuation on his watch and asked if one of "the guys" were in.
I said that I could help, and he got really arsey saying that he didn't want to speak to me, he wanted to speak to a man as he had an "expensive timepiece" so wanted an expert opinion.
I said that nobody else was available and reiterated that I was happy to help. At this point he noticed our accountant crossing the back of the showroom so said "GET ME HIM" along with an assertive bang on the desk.
Accountant sauntered over and he said that although he didn't have "a problem" with receptionists but he wanted to speak to a man about his watch because expensive, expert, blah blah.
Accountant looked him dead in the eye and said "you can speak to an expert or you can speak to a man, which would you prefer?"
Guy grudgingly decided that I'd have to do and plopped down what he believed to be a Patek Phillip Nautilus 5980/1R which at the time were selling at around the £200k mark. It was a replica and I valued it at £0.
He starts doing his nut and telling me that I'm wrong and a "rank amateur" and starting to make a scene. At the same time one of the watchmakers returned from lunch and checked the movement on the spot - declared it fake.
The guy had a huge temper tantrum and tried to slam the doors as he was leaving to indicate his upset - but they're soft close, so he's struggling to slam them with all his effort and huffing and puffing against the soft close system.
Accountant pops back up from over my shoulder and says "No point slamming doors bruv, you should've asked her before you bought it!"
I bought him a king size Twix for his support.

AwBlessm · 10/04/2024 14:43

isitshe · 10/04/2024 14:18

You're right, it's usually that weird synthetic-yellow processed stuff. Not nice at all.

I will NOT have you saying such things about nacho cheese. Surely that is against talk guidelines.

PriscillaPresssley · 10/04/2024 14:56

The high end watch post has just reminded me.

Quite a few years ago I was PA to the owner of a famous high end jeweller. I was on the shop floor when a very pushy and condescending sales rep was demanding to 'see the owner', who wasn't available. He was very rude to an 18 year old girl assistant and he declared that he would be back later

Sure enough he returned as promised and followed the young lady to the owners office. She knocked, opened the door and said "Daddy here's that horrible man I told you about earlier'

Suffice to say he didn't get to give his sales pitch.

Bethany83 · 10/04/2024 14:56

Thanks for so many replies! It's been interesting to read. It will be me who has done the 'thanks' option on each message (haven't quite read all yet) hopefully this has inspired people to feel a little better re all those who have experienced C.F behaviour! X

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bringoutthebranston · 10/04/2024 15:02

Loving these examples of Karma. A slightly different story, not sure its Karma but here goes...
My now EXH had 2 Sons from a previous marriage and at the start of our relationship the younger son was asked what he wanted as a treat for doing his 11+. After a while of consideration (no doubt aided by his mum) he announced that he wanted us all to go tenpin bowling with his mum & dad and their respective new partners (incl me). Now this is my worst nightmare as I am not competitive or any good at any sport at all (can you guess yet?!). Well there we were all together and feeling very awkward (exes hated each other) and the Ex-wife and her partner turned up with their own bowling balls, bowling shoes, even polishing bag thingys with their balls in as they went bowling every week and belonged to a club (FFS) and took it very seriously. Well I hated every moment and wasn't very good at all, however, with divine intervention, towards the end of the first game I achieved 2 strikes and a spare... and we won! I don't know who was more surprised, me or them. Well, we didn't end up playing the 2nd game and I was accused of secretly practicing. My career in tenpin bowling ended there and it was never suggested again that we did anything remotely 'coupley'... 😎 I still do laugh at that story anyway :-)

Handyweatherstation · 10/04/2024 15:13

Growing up, my older brother was an absolute sod and would bully me and my other brother something horrible. He liked to use his fists and would lash out with no warning and our parents were too useless to do anything about him other than an occasional telling off, which made no difference. He hit my other brother more often than me, though I copped my share, and we both learned to dodge and weave. One day he lashed out yet again, only my brother ducked and older brother punched the wall instead. Apparently the look on his face was a sight to behold.

SinnerBoy · 10/04/2024 15:16

PriscillaPresssley · Today 14:56

Sure enough he returned as promised and followed the young lady to the owners office. She knocked, opened the door and said "Daddy here's that horrible man I told you about earlier'

😂

sueelleker · 10/04/2024 15:31

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 😂

It wasn't anyone's fault, but we were on a day ride in Wales; a lorry behind us kindly braked, but the noise of the air brakes sent horses in all directions. Two of them ended up in a ditch.

diddl · 10/04/2024 15:37

"Daddy here's that horrible man I told you about earlier'

😂😂😂

I think that might be up there with Newark Airport!