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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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VestibuleVirgin · 08/04/2024 06:36

Alleycat1 · 08/04/2024 06:03

Not really a CF story but definitely karma.
Some years ago a friend and I decided to take the train to a very popular seaside resort for the day. It was a glorious day and the town was packed, so much so that we couldn't get into any restaurant for something to eat and ended up with a small bag of chips each from a kiosk and an ice cream cone.
On the way home the train was set up like the Hogwart's express with a long corridor and compartments off to the side. It was just me, friend and a middle-aged man in the compartment. Friend and I were chatting and complaining to ourselves.about how hungry we were and our stomachs.were rumbling quite audibly. We apologised to the man who just tutted. He then reached for his bag and took out a large plastic container, shot us a sneery, smug smile and proceeded to eat about six sandwiches, 2 pieces of cake and drink a bottle of soda, making lip-smacking noises and patting his tummy all the while. He had just finished when a train passed in the opposite direction. Someone obviously threw out a very sloppy egg mayo roll; it came flying through our open window and hit the smug chap squarely in the chops.. He sat there with the filling dripping down his face. He didn't have a tissue, neither did I and my friend, unable to hold it together, had legged it into the corridor where she could be heard laughing for about 5 minutes.

We still have a giggle all these years later.

Sound like a chapter from a Famous Five book!

VestibuleVirgin · 08/04/2024 06:39

ANiceBigCupOfTea · 06/04/2024 06:57

I work in management in a big company and as such I have to do interviews for new hires.
I came in one morning to see a person waiting in the lobby who'd got in early for his interview so I went over to greet him, and ask if he'd like tea or coffee while he waited, and he totally ignored me. That kind of 'looking through you' ignoring where he can clearly see you but thinks he's far too good to chat to you.
I get upstairs and I see I'm down for the interview. Wonderful. So the colleague interviewing with me goes down to bring him, he comes into the room and when he saw me the look on his face was very clearly the face of a man shifting a brick.

Many variations of this story abound

Sceptical123 · 08/04/2024 06:42

thatsnotmynamethstsnotmyname · 06/04/2024 06:36

When we named our first child mil was a bit sniffy about our name choice. It was one of those shortened names think Albie, Alfie, Bobby etc. She made a comment about how it was hard to imagine a grown man with a name like that.
Two years later sil has her first dd and names her something like Honey Boo. I laughed imagining mils thoughts on this.

Also our son has asd and development delays which was massively misunderstood by pils. We got a lot of lectures about how we need to make him behave (when he was two and having several meltdowns a day) . I remember bil who didn't have children at the time saying smugly how it's all about boundaries. Again fast forward a few years and dn behaviour is far more extreme than ds ever was. Everytime she smacks her dad in the face I get the urge to say 'boundaries bil' As far as we are aware there's no Sen issue with dn (although I wouldn't be surprised if she has adhd) but pil talk a lot about the reason she has all these issues is because she is a 'high needs' child. This from a family who didn't think asd was a good enough reason for struggling to regulate.

So many similarities to my situation! Families can be so toxic, in my case it was my own tho, not the in-laws. Hope your little one’s doing well x

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.

Wheelz46 · 08/04/2024 06:54

A friend of mine was expecting her first baby with her husband. He left her mid pregnancy for another woman who also happened to be expecting his baby.

When the woman who he had an affair with gave birth, another guy came along claiming to be the father and turns out my friends ex wasn't the father of the child.

He then requested my friend do a DNA, of course he was the father, tried worming his way back in, but she told him to take the high road!

Bexlily · 08/04/2024 06:55

In a busy motorway, everybody indicating and moving out of the left lane because of either an accident or broken down vehicle (can't remember which). Car in middle lane moved so I couldn't get over, no worries, just went behind him.

He then pulls into the left lane and promptly realises his mistake. Petty I know but I didn't let him back in.

Another one on the motorway, again very busy due to roadworks this time, idiot cuts me up and promptly goes onto the hard shoulder and carries on driving. Next thing we know blue lights appear, he looked very sheepish as we drove past.

Sceptical123 · 08/04/2024 07:06

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From personal experience I can empathise as I think grown adults who treat children with ASD like it’s their fault and are trying to make their lives difficult deserve to experience what it’s like from the other side. I’m mainly talking about older women in school settings who are meant to at least show some degree of kindness.

I really wouldn’t wish it on anybody, particularly a child, but I often think these ppl deserve for their only grandchild to have this. I’m sure they would take it a little more seriously then, especially when they and those closest to them were getting the negative comments and treatment on a regular basis. Who knows, maybe it would teach them some basic levels of human decency?🤷🏼‍♀️ but maybe not. Some ppl are just sincerely utter arseholes.

Sprinklesandsprinkles · 08/04/2024 07:12

We were a few cars behind a tractor on a B road and a car came whipping past us all to overtake the tractor on a bend. It only very narrowly missed an oncoming car. We had just got a dash cam and said we'd submit it to Operation Snap to the police because it was so dangerous and he clearly must always drive like a nob to be driving so dangerously.

A minute later an unmarked police car went past us with it's blue lights on and we said is that the car that was nearly hit?! Soon enough we saw the police car with the nob pulled over to the side of the road, they'd turned around and chased him down😂

67Namechange · 08/04/2024 07:17

Girl I was friends with at school joined the armed forces and took great pleasure in saying that she was paying for the rest of us to go to uni with her taxes (!?). Always lauded it over me....few years later she's divorced from man she married (he was her trainer when she joined the Army and was much older than her), left with loads of dept and now pushes her Tropic/perfume and other MLMs on everyone 😬

Alleycat1 · 08/04/2024 07:17

@VestibuleVirgin Well, we do live in Dorset where the books are based, apparently, but were in our 30s at the time.

Sceptical123 · 08/04/2024 07:18

DrFoxtrot · 06/04/2024 11:13

After I managed to end my marriage to my emotionally abusive XH, his family (MIL and SIL) turned against me and slagged me off on social media. Calling me 'sugar coated poison' and saying awful things about my appearance.

They even went as far as giving me the nickname 'Alopeesha' - obviously alopecia spelt wrongly.

A few years later, my ex-MIL had all her hair fall out.

I have never revelled in the fact that this happened, but can't help but think privately that she must think about the time she used this medical condition as a joke/ insult and then she became sadly affected by it.

That is true karma ✨👍🏻✨and richly deserved by the sound of it - hopefully it’s hereditary and ex SiL can look forward to it too

Letsgotitans · 08/04/2024 07:23

Not a cheeky fucker but I was being bullied by this girl who like to scream 'slag' at me every time she saw me. She ended up getting pregnant at 16 and had 3 kids by the age of about 20, which I know doesn't make herself a slag but just down to the fact how she used to bully me, from time to time I like to smile at the irony and think about how karma's done me well ☺️

izzygirlis4 · 08/04/2024 07:27

Me ex did some renovation work on my house. We weren't married

He turned into an arsehole, I ended the relationship.

He made false reports about me to the police, council. Children services etc.

he then bought the house right next door to me.

When we had split up I offered him £40k for the work he had done, he refused and said he wanted half which he reckoned was about £100k.
I told him if he bought the house next door he would never get a penny from me.

Fours years of court proceedings which he lost and he ended up paying me £70k
GrinGrinGrinGrin

Doris86 · 08/04/2024 07:28

Years ago I was driving my old Mini. It handled really well and stuck to the road like glue. I had some idiot in a pimped up Nova tailgating me. As we approached a bend in the road, I sped up and Novaboy sped up too, still right up my arse. I knew my Mini could handle the bend at that speed and it flew around it no problem. Meanwhile Nova boy behind lost control and swerved around all over the place. After that he slowed down and kept a sensible distance.

MermaidMummy06 · 08/04/2024 07:34

My cousin's DD is an entitled brat who thinks she's superior. She walks into my DM's, literally with her nose in the air & ignores me like I'm not there. Left us off her 21st guest list, and refused to invite any lifelong family friends, some who'd supported her all her life. No one dared pull her up or she'll get upset.

Last week, driving back from the airport from her latest trip, she got flashed by a mobile phone camera for having it in her lap. Now, I'm in Australia. It's an $1100 (£600) fine & a bunch of demerits on your licence. She cried because she apparently doesn't have much money (she does, just doesn't want to pay the consequences) and her perfect record is ruined. DM told me hush hush no one's allowed to know as she's embarrassed (don't tell my DM then!). Nasty, maybe, but I found it delightful to see her brought down a peg.

NeverEnoughPants · 08/04/2024 07:39

My ex had a friend who was a total misogynist. One example was that he told his wife-to-be that he wasn't going to put up with her PMT and that if she continued with it then they would be over. He claims that PMT is made up because she never had it after that.

This is a very minor one compared to some, but I think it fits.

One day they were over and we decided to play trivial pursuit. I said 'let's make it girls against guys' (I wouldn't use the term girls now, before anyone has a go).

He laughed and said 'you don't want her on your side, she's hopeless'.

I'm sure you can see where this is going. We landed so lucky with the questions, you know how some have little clues as to the answer, so even if you don't know if, you can figure it out? We got loads of them. And a lot that I knew, just from general knowledge. (We had played it twice before, so it wasn't that I knew all the cards, we were still chucking through cards we hadn't played before). Now, I'm completely hopeless at sport. The very last 'pie' piece we needed was sport. We landed on an international football question. I was like 'I have no idea'. She said 'i think I know this. Is it Ajax?'. She was bang on the money.

We completely slaughtered them. My now ex was completely fine with it, knew there was no cheating etc (we'd played the game the same amount of times) but this twat couldn't have it to be that we won on merit. He was blustering about how I must have played it hundreds of times etc.

Surprisingly, they are still together.

LightSpeeds · 08/04/2024 07:42

Northernsouloldies · 05/04/2024 23:32

I hear hoof dents and scratches are a bugger to remove.

Hoof dents 😂😂

LonelyAndLostToo · 08/04/2024 07:59

Very dark windy country road one winter, early evening. Busy road and oncoming car had his full beam on so i double flicked mine to warn him, he didnt respond, still a little time before we passed so i flicked my mains twice to tell him i was there, again no response. Just before the final bend when i knew i would get full on blinding full beams in my face i triple flicked and yes you got it rounded the corner to full beams stright in my eyes, full on brakes on slowed to an almost stop as i recovered my sight. Crawled past him. Swore under my breath but no matter. Then smiled big as i noticed the car directly behind him switch on their blues and twos. That was instant karma

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 08/04/2024 08:00

I sort of have one but it’s a mix of karma. My auntie (DM’s younger half sister) met her DH (my uncle) at my DP’s wedding when she was 14. My dad and uncle were best friends. They started dating (he was about 30) and he started her on a modelling career which she did well out of. However he was always a manipulative man prone to cruelty which he often showed in public. He was your classic man from the rough side of town made good, he’d had a career as a star hairdresser and later had his own advertising agency.

Karma came years later when some items of property which were very dear to him
were stolen but he received a compensation payment from the police. He was also broken into in a mansion he lived in and disaster struck there too (not saying all this as outing).

After years of putting up with this my auntie apparently had a high profile affair (it was in the Sun I think) and they divorced. His 2 sons who he’d said they were born were the light of his life and would go to private school (they didn’t) now haven’t seen their dad for years and don’t intend to, they witnessed awful behaviour whilst they lived with him and during the divorce.

The last part of the karma is bitter sweet. He’s met a woman (all on FB) who’s done him wrong, has had cancer and survived s and is in contact with his daughter who I think he was estranged from. But he now wheels himself out as quite a sad, bitter old man to various PR events (book signings, launches etc) where he tries to latch onto women of all ages.

After he ditched my dad as a friend whilst I was young (my parents divorced when I was 5) my dad found that hard as they were best mates, they sometimes spoke on the phone but never met up. My dad sadly died quite young at 50 and I told my uncle he wasn’t welcome at the funeral and gave no details out so he couldn’t just turn up. My uncle was banned from my grandfather’s funeral.

It’s a bit sad really that a man like that goes through life, being banned from 2 funerals so that is karma really. What goes around comes around.

Another one but a bit sad. I had a best friend at school for a year at 14 who suddenly and a bit cruelly dropped me for no reason for a new friend but that’s teenagers.

When Facebook got popular we reconnected in our 30s and she dumped her boyfriend and hung around with me again for a year or two, best friends as back in the olden days. One day she rang me up saying she was in love with her soul mate, a new man, she threw herself into this like she did most things but I was dropped again, she did say once she’d got over the new love phase she’d be free to be friends but I was fed up of being dropped by her twice now. She’d always tried to leech off people, getting a council flat when she didn’t really need one, renting from a friend at a vastly reduced rate. Her new boyfriend cared for his elderly and sick parents who both died very quickly and they moved to a lovely house in a pretty country village, which was her/their dream.

I then heard her boyfriend had suffered 3 mini strokes not long after they’d moved there and she’d had to help care for him, which she still does as well as works. They were planning to get married too. But I’d never wish severe or fatal illness on anyone.

NotAgainWilson · 08/04/2024 08:03

My ex partner, wanting to make the best of his later years and retire long before retirement age , started resenting me as having a school age child myself, we couldn’t travel as much as he wanted and were limited to school holidays. He also wanted a house in the countryside and refused point blank to consider that this would isolate my child in teenage and that there were no decent schools or jobs for me less than 15/20 miles away.

He had a strop about that one day when my child was 15, I said he only needed to wait 3 years and once my DC was in university we would have more freedom. He said he had a “life to live” and left. That was the end of it.

He started seeing a woman, who fell pregnant almost immediately so he now has a toddler in his 60s.

It took a long time for me not to laugh every time I thought about it.

Isthisreasonable · 08/04/2024 08:15

ANiceBigCupOfTea · 06/04/2024 06:57

I work in management in a big company and as such I have to do interviews for new hires.
I came in one morning to see a person waiting in the lobby who'd got in early for his interview so I went over to greet him, and ask if he'd like tea or coffee while he waited, and he totally ignored me. That kind of 'looking through you' ignoring where he can clearly see you but thinks he's far too good to chat to you.
I get upstairs and I see I'm down for the interview. Wonderful. So the colleague interviewing with me goes down to bring him, he comes into the room and when he saw me the look on his face was very clearly the face of a man shifting a brick.

We always get a junior member of staff to meet interviewees and bring them to the interview room. Their opinion (and that of the receptionists) is always illuminating and helpful in decision-making.

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 08/04/2024 08:16

My ex best friend, we fell out after many years of being friends. She’d dated my brother for a few years and we’d been best friends from age 13 to age 43/44. She’d got a new girlfriend who’d brought a load of her mates who were rough to a party and there’d been drama there involving me and DB, but her girlfriend’s mates ended up smack bang in the middle of the drama. My ex bestie winds up on (she’d been on them anyway before) anti depressants and strong painkillers and now she’s off them, her DM had died suddenly and young too which kind of explains some of her past issues.

She then got an inheritance and used most of that to set up a beauty salon which is surprisingly doing well by review standards but not Company House standards as she was I think bankrupt or almost but is still trading. It’s a real pity as I’d use and recommend her salon but won’t due to how she treated me. She’s also apparently known by another nail tech I know as a character in the area always causing drama. She always had some drama going on but never with me until it did come with me. I’m torn between seeing her and wondering if she’s ok (she is) but can’t face the drama. The drama still follows her though, her dog was stolen last year.

Howbizarre22 · 08/04/2024 08:23

Great thread. So many men in car related ones…guess their entitlement is magnified behind the wheel 🙄

Toogles · 08/04/2024 08:28

I used to live in a flat in a block with a lift.

One morning I was waiting for the lift. It arrived, the doors opened and I tried to get in.

The big important businessman from the top floor penthouse flat was in the lift, and really shoved me out of the way so he could get out first.

I got in, pressed the ground floor button, and the important businessman realised that we were on the 4th floor and not the ground floor.

He swore, turned around and made to get back in as the doors closed in his face.

A beautiful moment.

PenguinLord · 08/04/2024 08:29

Fraaahnces · 05/04/2024 15:17

NC means No Contact.

Name changed, no contact would nto work in this context?