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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 · 08/04/2024 09:30

This is a very old one, courtesy of my father. He was driving home, across some common land, and came upon a herd of cattle, being moved to a new field by the farmer, so slowed right down to pass them. A bloke towing a caravan did not realise (or didn't care) why dad had slowed down, so overtook him and barged his way through the herd of cattle.

He didn't know that the bull was with the cattle, and the bull took great exception to this townie barging his way through the cows, so took one swipe with his horns and opened a slash right the way down the lovely, shiny caravan - it was like opening a can with a can opener, dad said.

SpringingintoSpring24 · 08/04/2024 09:32

My karma goes the other way! On the way into a job interview I stopped to help an older lady who had slipped on the ice and lost her shoe. Fast forward and she was the one interviewing me! Imagine if I'd just walked past!

greezelouise · 08/04/2024 09:33

Horrible SIL estranged from my in laws for decades. She thought they were very wealthy and had all sorts of plans for spending brother in law's half when they died. She inherited from her own parents first and blew every penny within a year. Two years later the in-laws died. Unbeknown to horrible SIL in laws had taken out a huge equity release mortgage decades ago at a very high interest rate. She was horrified to discover that there was hardly anything to inherit..

Cathbrownlow · 08/04/2024 09:33

Did you get the job? @SpringingintoSpring24

TheaBrandt · 08/04/2024 09:37

Horrible angry man shouting and swearing at me because I could not park in a tiny space in a tiny car park. I gave up and let him have the space. He couldn’t park in it either. Drove off fast in a huff of exhaust fumes. Oh how I laughed!

Whatkatyforgottodo · 08/04/2024 09:42

Driving out of my local town behind a couple of other cars, speed limit goes from 30 to 40mph. Range Rover tailgates me then overtakes me and both cars in front. In the best bit of karma I have ever experienced, the car in front of me is an unmarked police car, pops on his blue lights, races after him and pulls him over. I went past him further up the road and he looked very sheepish as he spoke to the policeman!

Willmafrockfit · 08/04/2024 09:49

a long time ago, a car overtook us, dangerously, in a village, bit further along he had been stopped by the police!

BrioLover · 08/04/2024 09:50

@Fromage bravo! Your last sentence was devastating Star

Farcis · 08/04/2024 09:52

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.

This is BRILLIANT

itsnotagameshow · 08/04/2024 09:59

I lived near the canal in Islington in the 80s and saw a flash convertible with the roof down pull up on a canal bridge and the bloke inside chuck a big bag of rubbish into the canal. He then parked and went into the pub over the road, while me and my friend retrieved the sodden bag and dumped it in the drivers seat. Sadly couldn´t wait around for his reaction, but I bet it was good!

Mrsredlipstick · 08/04/2024 10:02

DD was horribly bullied throughout secondary school. She won a scholarship to a posh boarding school but got asked to leave for her LGBT persona (she wouldn't wear the kilt as she was being called chunky monkey and wanted to hide her legs in plain black trousers). Her head of year told me she had no idea why she had been awarded a scholarship as she wasn't bright enough. Fast forward a few years and the DD has a first and two funded PhD offers. When I get her graduation photos I'll be sending them in!

itsnotagameshow · 08/04/2024 10:03

My second peach of CF karma was where I was called in to help a colleague who really didn´t want to interview the head of a large company who wanted to sell us a massive phone system but had to see him, so wanted me alongside. Turned out the chap we were seeing was the very man who had been extremely rude and aggressive to me over running a diesel generator on the boat I was on at the time. He didn´t know of course that my company was not up for buying his system, but all the colour drained from his face when I walked into the room. I like to think he thought he didn´t get the massive contract because of me 😉

ANiceBigCupOfTea · 08/04/2024 10:05

VestibuleVirgin · 08/04/2024 06:39

Many variations of this story abound

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If you're trying to say it didn't happen I can assure you it did 😊

Handyweatherstation · 08/04/2024 10:06

This was in the 1980s. I was working on a museum farm as the dairy maid and my days mainly involved milking cows by hand, making butter and shovelling shit. The farm was run by the council and the farm manager was a horrible woman who used to occasionally leave her office to swan about the farm yard in a frock and high heels and clearly looked down on us grunts who worked outside. One time, the cows were in the milking parlour to be be artificially inseminated. This was after milking and one thing that happens regularly during milking is that the cows will have a big shit. Well, this manager in her pretty frock came in to watch the proceedings. One of the cows, being understandably indignant at what was going on, kicked back through a huge pile of shit most of which splatted all over the farm manager's frock. Cow shit stains don't wash out.

SafariAnimal · 08/04/2024 10:06

I was driving to work one morning, doing the speed limit (40) when some complete twat in a flash car comes racing up behind me. He must have been doing at least 60, was driving right up to the back of cars and flashing them, weaving in and out of traffic, the lot. I was delighted when I caught up to him at the bus stop just before the next set of traffic lights, where he’d been pulled over by the police.

Emotionalsupportviper · 08/04/2024 10:17

sockarefootwear · 06/04/2024 11:28

A few weeks after I passed my driving test, I was sent on a work training course for 3 weeks. The course was in a training centre on an our of town trading estate about an hours drive from my home and I drove there and back each day. There were a few small parking spaces right outside the centre door but as I knew they'd be difficult to get in and out of (bollards between them, planters next to them, on the main route in and out of the estate etc) I chose to park in a very large carpark behind the centre.

A small group of male participants thought it was very funny that I arrived early but parked further away. When I explained that I was a new driver so wanted somewhere easy to park it just made them worse. The ringleader 'Dick' always parked near the doors and started to wait for me to leave the car park, follow me to the end of the road (with his mates jeering out of the windows) then speed past me and loads of other stupid stuff to try to make me feel uncomfortable. Dick then started making 'jokes' about me leaving the carpark free for him out of respect (with Godfather misquotes) etc, clearly trying to goad me in to parking at the front so they could watch me struggle.

One evening, as I was driving out of the estate, Dick was waiting in his car in one of the small spaces and reversed at speed just as I was approaching. I'm sure his plan was to pull out on front of me and make me have to slam on my brakes. Only instead he reversed at speed in to a lovely concrete bollard.
My parking was never mentioned again,

Only instead he reversed at speed in to a lovely concrete bollard.
My parking was never mentioned again

There is indeed a God. 😄

Emotionalsupportviper · 08/04/2024 10:20

Mybusyday · 06/04/2024 13:02

Love this so much -well deserved!

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Indeed!

Do not disrespect the SHOOEEEEEEEEESSSS!

HermioneKipper · 08/04/2024 10:23

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Emotionalsupportviper · 08/04/2024 10:26

Fromage · 06/04/2024 18:24

That cat was doing God's work, SmudgeButt.

Just what I was going to say.

Newestname002 · 08/04/2024 10:27

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.

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What a good person that woman was, to let this awful man's Exes have this information. He really is the dregs of a father to steal from his own children. 🌹

SinnerBoy · 08/04/2024 10:37

pinkstripeycat · Today 08:58

Is it true sheep make awful pets? A woman I worked with (trading standards) “saved” 2 lambs from slaughter (while she was checking the slaughter house was doing what they were meant to).

In the early 80s, there was a girl a couple of years above me who had one. She was a farm girl and rescued a lamb rejected by it's mother. She trained it to poo outside and it had a bed in the kitchen. She had some pony jumps and it used to do a circuit and leap them all!

This was Backworth Village, near Newcastle - I can't for the life of me remember her name.

NellysCheekPlaster · 08/04/2024 10:44

A random man attempted to mug a lad from my MMA gym when he was walking through the park.

The MMA lad is 5'10, 54kg with a mop of blonde cupid curls and a really smiley face. I guess he looked like an easy target.
He was not an easy target.

The MMA lad flattened him and just walked away but was pretty confident he'd broken the mugger's rib(s).

ANiceBigCupOfTea · 08/04/2024 10:44

Greymustard · 07/04/2024 18:34

Had an almost identical scenario when I volunteered to cover reception while we were short staffed. Bloke flapped in, spoke to me like I was dirt, was shitty with me when I offered him a choice of tea or coffee rather than some fancy coffee concoction, I could hear him slagging off the "useless receptionist" as he walked down to the interview room having been asked about his morning... He then appeared to visibly soil himself when I was invited in to his interview and introduced as a member of the executive team with the deciding vote on hiring. The interviewer thought it was hilarious because he had been subjected to the moaning about the silly tart in reception who couldn't even rustle up a decent coffee for a potential senior hire.

It was a glorious, albeit short interview.

I made a point of regularly perching on reception after that to see how people were treated. Absolute eye opener.

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

Beautiful3 · 08/04/2024 10:44

When I was 14 my best friend said her mum didn't want us being friends any more, because I was dragging her down! I knew she wasn't fond of me, but was shocked we couldn't hang out anymore. I was a nice and quiet child, so couldn't really understand why. She was my only close friend and I missed her alot, we were mates since nursery. I ended up moving school and made new friends. On gcse results day former friend rang me crying, because she had failed all of her gcses. I was shocked because I haven't heard from her in two years! I went straight to hers to console her. Her mum wasn't welcoming and stared at me for a while, while chain smoking. I was nice to former friend and suggested she call up local colleges, to see what her next options are. Eventually the mum asked what I'd got, I was so proud to tell her 7 Bs, 3Cs and an E, with an offer from 6th form. Her face dropped then scowled, I took that as my cue to leave and never saw them again. Years later my dad mentioned she'd got a job at the local coop. She asked after me, dad told her I'd gone to university, he said she went quiet and carried on stacking shelves.

Emotionalsupportviper · 08/04/2024 10:48

CarrieMoonbeams · 08/04/2024 00:01

DH and I were driving along a twisty country road on a beautiful summer's day. We were behind a truck full of cattle and as it was such a winding road we couldn't get past it so we hung back, leaving a decent, safe gap.

A guy in an open top Jag appeared behind us, and was flashing his lights etc, trying to intimidate us. We obviously didn't speed up, so he decided to overtake, but had to just go right in front of us because he couldn't see past the cattle truck either. Next minute, a HUGE stream of dark yellow cow piss fired out from the back of the cattle truck, all over his car's bonnet and windscreen - it was absolutely stinking, we could even smell it from inside our car. How we laughed when we saw him putting his wipers on, desperately trying to clear the cow piss! Beautiful.

This is why cows are considered holy in some cultures, IMO.

😂

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