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...

Yup, thats the general picture, like sitting on a sofa, albeit a sofa that might - just might - chuck in a bit of impromptu river-dance because there's oh no a dandelion (comitting the awful sin of Not Having Been There Yesterday...), before emitting a bone shaking snort and shuffling off in embarrassment at his error.

I believe he preferred a half of Caffreys, but I never took him to the pub as this was before I was old enough to drink. He was also inclined to eat cigarettes should anyone leave him with access to a pack! (I won't tell you how long ago that was as the maths is likely to lead to a sad conclusion).

Is it? Or is it just theft?

@BronwenTheBrave Not theft, not her responsibility to alert him to his error in forgetting his belongings. That's what you do to be nice, why would you be nice to someone whose deliberately given you physical discomfort all through a journey!
But she may as well give it a home since he left it behind, the chances off it being handed in by someone else to lost property and being claimed by the original owner is miniscule.

Ehhh finders keepers.

He would have done the same thing to her .

No one else seems to have commented on @AskingQuestionsAllTheTime magnificent story about the dickhead trying to run her down and then immediately crashing head-on into a police car! So I will say that is just glorious 😁

It was deeply satisfying at the time, too! And I didn't have to do anything to bring it about, and could howl with laughter and a clear conscience. I'm glad you enjoyed hearing about it.

@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime l certainly did.

@Emotionalsupportviper I suspect she retired within the next year or two. That whole school had a badly needed revamp to catch up with the times. As for me graduating - like most music nerds, I was quite the academic. I don’t think it would have been a good look for them to fail me based on the PE sadist’s threat.

bit of impromptu river-dance because there's oh no a dandelion (comitting the awful sin of Not Having Been There Yesterday...)

In my very limited experience of horses (I'm wary of them having been chased by one which pinned me against a wall and bit all of the buttons off my shirtwaister dress - try walking home past a building site holding your dignity (and top) together after that experience! but my DD was a keen rider at one time.) - where was I?

Oh, yes - in my very limited experience of horses they are also very capable of a wild tango because the dandelion has committed the awful sin of Having Been There Yesterday - and the Day Before - in fact for several weeks, providing shelter for prides of lions and packs of wolves, and probably a few bears and alligators as well.

If there's one thing you can't trust, it's a solitary dandelion apparently minding its own business and waiting for the unwary.

We had a foul HR woman in an office I was working in. She used to encourage a batshit manager in loads of very control-freak initiatives which were totally counter-productive, and delighted in sitting next to him looking smug and disapproving whilst employees were hauled in and disciplined for the most minor infractions, including imaginary ones. It became a really unhappy place to work in and the staff turnover was ridiculous.

A couple of years after I left, I was on a school admissions appeal panel. One of the appeals was based on nothing more than that the parent felt her child should have got the place in the school parent wanted because it was convenient to the parent. When the parent came in, I realised that it was foul HR woman who used her married name in this context. She didn't recognise me initially and I was heavily tempted to stay and give her a hard time, but decided I had to do the right thing and excused myself. I learned afterwards that my colleagues on the panel hadn't been able to extract anything resembling a sensible argument from her and chucked the appeal out.

Not long after that, the company folded. Some employees were taken over by another company, but neither foul HR woman nor batshit manager were amongst them. I heard on the grapevine that takeover company had no trouble in working out why the company had failed and refused to touch those two with a bargepole.

Wow! Absolutely love this one. What a brilliant thing for a complete stranger to do.
She is my new hero! 😍

I just remembered another one. My friend's divorce was toxic because his ex made it very difficult. She prevented him from seeing the kids etc & eventually he applied for court ordered access. Even then she made it hard but picked the wrong judge to play silly buggers with. How she raged when she had to comply with the access arrangements.

Anyway a few years later, she met this guy who then made it obvious he wanted nothing to do with the kids. Guess who she picked? My friend took the opportunity to go for full residential rights and now the situation is reversed.

His ex now has supervised visits only because of the times she messed around and prioritised her bf over her kids. The children aren't her priority anymore, her boyfriend is and it's an extremely sad situation.

That's not karma. That is just utterly sad for the children involved

@sandrapinchedmysandwich totally agree

Brilliant!!
A few years ago when I went to do the grocery shop for the first time on my own with a newborn, I went to pull into the last mother and baby space, and this CF woman came flying down and swerved in in front of me! (In her big Range Rover 🙄) but as she was turning in, Aldi had these like flags along the spaces saying click and collect I think, but one was broken and scraped the whole side of her car. I was deeeelighted! She had no children BTW 😂

Some time ago I worked in a company that was run by a manager who basically subscribed to every passing fad and novelty. A young man joined our department who was basically lazy and useless, but very much had the gift of the gab. Fortunately for us he was moved out to a different department. Subsequently he talked the manager into putting him in charge of a new department of his very own on the promise that he was so wonderful at getting new business in that the new department would be instantly profitable.

In that role he soon became notorious for absolutely taking the piss. We all knew it, but manager was blind to it. He made life hell for the unfortunate woman who had been seconded as his assistant, even though she was the only person doing any work in that department, and every time things (inevitably) went wrong he blamed her. We used to get figures circulated every month showing the chargeable hours people were recording and billing, and his figures were regularly below 5% with no sign of movement.

Happily ultimately a new director came in who sussed out what was happening quickly. He twisted manager's arm into putting twat onto an improvement plan, Twat was so arrogant that he still didn't bother, and a couple of months later he was astonished to find himself being sacked. His assistant heard the entire discussion (as it became loud) and had major problems keeping a straight face when he emerged. She got promoted and ultimately became a director herself.

Recent karma. Our next door neighbour has been ignoring the fence (her responsibility) that has slowly been falling down for nearly 12 months. One panel has completely disintegrated and while we were working in the garden yesterday our dog had a nose around. When I noticed she had disappeared I looked over and she was sunning herself on next doors patio.
When I called her back she returned with a wooden duck ornament that she had decapitated. I thought it was a big root we had grubbed out, so binned it, DS later identified it as garden art. We are doing a major garden remodel so there are lots of chunks of root around, dog is a lab so is constantly carrying them around.
She had also decided to take a dip in next doors fish pond so was dripping wet.
We have a long history of her neglecting to fix stuff and it causing damage to our property. A cracked loose roof tile ( they are huge concrete tiles) came off her roof and damaged both our garage roof and our car during a storm. We had notified her that it was loose but she just pushed it back into place rather than replacing it properly.
She then told her insurance company that it had been repaired so they wouldn’t pay for repairs to our roof or car due to it being an act of god.
So I have no intention of fessing up to the missing ornament.
Currently the only thing holding up the fence is a large climbing hydraenga which is being cut down in a couple of weeks.

@Angrymum22 it's not your neighbour's responsibility to make her fences dog proof. It's your job to keep the dog safely contained in your garden. If your dog gets out again and eats rat poison somewhere, or goes AWOL out of another hole in your neighbour's fence, it will be all your own fault. Or karma, with your poor dog paying the price. Put your own fences in.

Well in my house one side of the garden the fence was my responsibility and the other side was my neighbour's, along the whole terrace.

That was my thoughts as I read it too.

The neighbour is responsible for the fence, sure - but that responsibility doesn't come with a caveat that it needs to be dog-proof. That's on the dog owner.

I genuinely don’t understand how the fence issue works for the UK. In Sydney fences are joint responsibility of whichever properties/houses they are in. So when I was fixing my backyard fence I could have asked my neighbour to contribute, I didn’t because it wasn’t anything major, just adding a capping to the fence to make it higher, which benefited both of us. As they say good fences make good neighbours. Is it legally stated somewhere which property is responsible for which fence etc.? Seems to be a contentious issue on some threads.

@Downunderduchess the problem with the Uk is there is no one rule and it is usually dependant on the title plan (apparently marked with a T!). Ours don't state any ownership at all, but some are specific and there's also an urban legend about the left hand fence line being yours....but it's all a bit vague so hence the many issues

I thought the responsibility lay with the person who had the fenceposts on their side.

We replaced all our wooden fences with concrete ones ourselves, but that's because one side house and the one behind us are council owned; and the other one is privately let to students. (We're the middle of a terrace) We figured it was easier to do it ourselves rather than try to get the other owners to do it.