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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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saturnspinkhoop · 11/04/2024 14:26

SqueakyDinosaur · 11/04/2024 14:23

I am fearful for the Emmenthal health of all these punsters.

They ricotta let it go.

Stickyricepudding · 11/04/2024 14:26

Enough of the cheesy jokes, I want more cheeky fucker karma stories please. 🙏

GeorgesMarvelousCalpol · 11/04/2024 14:46

@Stopsmotheringmeeeeeee I know it's not what you want to hear but I'm going to say... Yes it's a ring.
Sorry 😞
Hope you and your DD are OK.

Emotionalsupportviper · 11/04/2024 15:19

SinnerBoy · 11/04/2024 13:04

REP22 · Today 11:18

+ +wixs? Twixes? Twixi? What's the plural of Twix?! Is it Twix?! + +

Twox

Appendix - appendices, cervix - cervices - therefore Twices.

Thank God!

A philologist to the rescue.

Thank you Sinner - I will no longer publicly embarrass myself by asking for "More than one Twix, please, but less than three. Thank you"

I can hardly wait! "Two Twices, please!" 🤗

Edited to add that I feel very intelligent to know this. 😁

Emotionalsupportviper · 11/04/2024 15:24

LookItsMeAgain · 11/04/2024 13:25

It certainly would be twices nice as just having the one Twix....I'll get my coat 😆

You're thinking of Ricicles. They used to be twicicles as nicicles.

I don't know if they still are. I'm a CocoPops girl myself.

Edited for ridiculous spellings! You wouldn't believe what autocarrot is capable of doing with that second sentence!

HussellRobbs · 11/04/2024 15:28

Stickyricepudding · 11/04/2024 14:26

Enough of the cheesy jokes, I want more cheeky fucker karma stories please. 🙏

Cheesus, take it cheesy.

We've run out of CF drama stories, hence the deviation into cheese and Twices.

wonderings2 · 11/04/2024 15:30

Dibbydoos · 10/04/2024 22:06

How is it karma if youre just looking down on others?

She was nasty to you, but what happened to her?! Nothing from what I can see in your story...

Because she looked down on me for having a friend that was a boy and occasionally wearing a vest top when her granddaughters were shagging round most of the town.

I wasn't looking down on anyone, apart form the girl that had a baby with married sx trafficker... how intolerant of me 🙄

REP22 · 11/04/2024 15:44

HussellRobbs · 11/04/2024 15:28

Cheesus, take it cheesy.

We've run out of CF drama stories, hence the deviation into cheese and Twices.

I like a Quarky sense of humour...

Justletmelogon · 11/04/2024 15:59

Here's bit of Karma
O.J Simpson has died.
I don't believe he was innocent of his crimes at all.
I know it's not a CF story but kind of relevant.

( and no someone dying is not karma I know that.)

blankittyblank · 11/04/2024 16:03

Dibbydoos · 10/04/2024 22:06

How is it karma if youre just looking down on others?

She was nasty to you, but what happened to her?! Nothing from what I can see in your story...

I agree, this is such a mean spirited post. And a weird concept of karma.

blankittyblank · 11/04/2024 16:03

CarterBeatsTheDevil · 11/04/2024 10:37

As long as you considered your decision caerphilly

I hope you aren't feeling cannelloni right now

HussellRobbs · 11/04/2024 16:08

Justletmelogon · 11/04/2024 15:59

Here's bit of Karma
O.J Simpson has died.
I don't believe he was innocent of his crimes at all.
I know it's not a CF story but kind of relevant.

( and no someone dying is not karma I know that.)

Just saw that too. I don’t think it’s karma though, he should have died in prison.

Stopsmotheringmeeeeeee · 11/04/2024 16:12

GeorgesMarvelousCalpol · 11/04/2024 14:46

@Stopsmotheringmeeeeeee I know it's not what you want to hear but I'm going to say... Yes it's a ring.
Sorry 😞
Hope you and your DD are OK.

Dammit 😭

But I appreciate you checking, thanks @GeorgesMarvelousCalpol 🧡

CrushingOnRubies · 11/04/2024 17:05

Just had a mini of these...

Idiot following me as we are over taking some traffic. I just get back into the single traffic lane, idiot overtakes me so definitely get back in on time. Flicks me the bird. Then starts swerving in a double white line trying to overtake a learner. He eventually does it on a dotted solid line but, which tbh unless it's a really slow tractor not really worth it. Idiot hopes to fly off into the distance. Only to immediately get behind a lorry and a speed camera. All that effort to just be 3 cars in front of me the whole time

Yes I wished he'd carried on so that I could have over taken him at the many roundabouts where I go where the least traffic goes. Or he had been flashed by the newish speed camera or the police had been in the vacinity

inappropriateraspberry · 11/04/2024 17:31

CrushingOnRubies · 11/04/2024 17:05

Just had a mini of these...

Idiot following me as we are over taking some traffic. I just get back into the single traffic lane, idiot overtakes me so definitely get back in on time. Flicks me the bird. Then starts swerving in a double white line trying to overtake a learner. He eventually does it on a dotted solid line but, which tbh unless it's a really slow tractor not really worth it. Idiot hopes to fly off into the distance. Only to immediately get behind a lorry and a speed camera. All that effort to just be 3 cars in front of me the whole time

Yes I wished he'd carried on so that I could have over taken him at the many roundabouts where I go where the least traffic goes. Or he had been flashed by the newish speed camera or the police had been in the vacinity

I see this so often. People fly past and then you catch them in traffic or at a junction. Never quite sure what they think they'll achieve!

Mintleafcocktail · 11/04/2024 17:37

I see this so often. People fly past and then you catch them in traffic or at a junction. Never quite sure what they think they'll achieve!

Me too- it makes me laugh. I had this the other day. Guy revving behind me, tailgating me, - it was a 30mph zone! Then made a huge big show of overtaking me like a rocket, sped up the road and not 30 seconds later had to stop for a red light. I drove up behind him to stop and was laughing- I hope he saw me in his mirror. I know this particular light well and it takes ages so we were all stopped there for what felt like ages. What an absolute prick. I also love when this happens and you pull up next to them at the lights. I always turn my head to look at them and they always furiously try to not make eye contact 😂

Emotionalsupportviper · 11/04/2024 17:56

blankittyblank · 11/04/2024 16:03

I hope you aren't feeling cannelloni right now

Oh - we're moving onto pasta now?

This is spirali-ing out of control!

SmudgeButt · 11/04/2024 18:04

not a karma story but somethings I believe are true.

Always say hello to beggars in the street, you don't know why they're there and never know if it will be you some day.

Always say hello to people on reception and the security types you never know when you will forget your pass at your desk and need to be let back in without doing a massive song and dance.

Always say hello and be polite to the cleaning staff - they literally have to put up with shit and are working very hard for very little money.

And as for the stories some have been relating about someone being ratty when the story teller was having a bad time....

About 20 years back my dad was in very poor health and I didn't get to see him as he was dying as I live in the UK and he lived in Canada. So eventually he died and I needed to arrange to go to be with my family.

A very jolly chap I worked with rang up to arrange a meeting and I had to say no I wouldn't be able to make it as I'd be in Canada. Jolly chap pipes up "oh lovely going to have a nice time visiting with everyone and slapping mounties on the bum?!!" My reply was "no it's for my dad's funeral" and burst into tears. He was incredibly apologetic and spent about 10 minutes saying "oh sorry, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to upset you, So sorry".

I know he meant it and quite frankly I almost started laughing he sounded so upset himself.

Personally when we react to these things I do think that the vast majority of people who've said "smile" or whatever would love to sink into the ground or do whatever they could to make you feel better or take back their words.

isitbananatimealready · 11/04/2024 18:06

Newestname002 · 06/04/2024 06:45

@Fromage

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

I'd loved to have seen the looks on their faces when they realised... 🌹

This is joyous, isn't it?!

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 11/04/2024 18:10

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.

TG sounds great! Grin

REP22 · 11/04/2024 18:13

Emotionalsupportviper · 11/04/2024 17:56

Oh - we're moving onto pasta now?

This is spirali-ing out of control!

Penne for your thoughts...? 😉

IncompleteSenten · 11/04/2024 18:15

jackstini · 11/04/2024 12:13

2 work ones

Worked in a travel agent, assistant manager. We had to make sure we asked people what passports they have, as visa requirements differ by country. A recent customer who had a non-UK passport (think it was Jamaica) needed a visa for Greece. The person booking them hadn't checked and he got sent back to the UK when he landed. To make it worse, it was their honeymoon. When they stormed back in (understandably!) the person who had booked it was off, so I sorted it out by upgrading them to a better holiday to somewhere he could go and off they went

Next day, I used the example in staff training to remind everyone to check this.
The manager was really arsey, saying the person who did this was stupid and needed to be disciplined and I needed to out them. I said I would take it up with them directly after the training; what was important was making sure everyone knew how important it was. He went on and on saying that person did not deserve their job and very intimidatingly shouted 'does anyone have a problem with the person being named?' No-one spoke so he turned and smugly said to me 'well then, who is the idiot'

I smiled and said 'you'

Second one - when I felt it was time to move on (been there 9 years, no progression in my region) I was very open, telling the (same!) manager that I was planning to leave, when I had interviews (on my day off) and even faxed him from holiday to confirm my resignation, giving extra notice. He never replied

On getting home, I found a letter saying I was not allowed to work my notice or enter the premises, neither was I allowed to go to the annual award event that month, where I was due to collect 2 prizes. I was so upset after 9 years of service (& it was my first job) and thinking I had not done anything wrong
I decided I had to go in to the shop, because I needed things from my locker, but thought I could ask a colleague to do that and made sure manager was on his day off
When I arrived, everyone was really off with me, turning their back and giving me dirty looks. Eventually I asked why and one of them said 'well what do you expect when you have refused to work your notice because you are too good for us now?' I burst into tears and handed her the letter and she took me upstairs to calm down.

I wrote on top of the letter 'Please see below, will miss you all, I will be in the pub over the road if you want to say goodbye' Then photocopied it and left one on every single person's desk so they would know what a spiteful shite he was

We had a great afternoon in the pub and I think he lost any respect he had from most staff pretty much overnight

@jackstini - that's so funny. What did he say when you said it had been him?

Newestname002 · 11/04/2024 18:20

@jackstini

I smiled and said 'you'

Brilliant! How many shades of red did he go?

And what an utter plank he was to you afterwards when you resigned as well. He obviously harboured a grudge from that training session and couldn't wait to stab you in the back. A creature with a piece of wood where a heart should be. 🌹

AwBlessm · 11/04/2024 19:12

@NachoCheesed Love the NC NC!

FlightwasfromNewark · 11/04/2024 19:19

AwBlessm · 11/04/2024 19:12

@NachoCheesed Love the NC NC!

But is at a NC, or are they NC, or do they just want some NC?